In Santa Barbara, the monopolistic Cox cable company controls what we can see on our TVs — for years we’ve had to pay their high fees for packages full of extra shows we don’t even want to watch — plus we have to pay for streaming services like HBO Max, Netflix, Apple+, Disney+, or Anything+. In fact, Apple+ may add a fee to see the next season of its hugely popular comedy Ted Lasso.
What makes it worse is that each service has only two or three shows that we really do want to watch. It would be so much easier if there was just one service on which we could watch all of our favorite shows — and, since we’re making this up, wouldn’t it be great if this streaming service was free?
Well — we don’t have to make it up — it’s right here in our own town! Knockoff Productions is a Santa Barbara-based, little-known, and way-overly imagined streaming service which makes cheap local versions of the shows that we all want to see — they just shoot them without any high-salaried stars and on very low budgets. Here’s a list of Knockoff’s most popular streaming shows: