Iovine said that the company's main concern is enticing users into choosing Apple Music over competitors like Spotify and Pandora, which offer free, ad-supported tiers for users. Ultimately, Iovine and other Apple Music executives believed that a**ther basic streaming Music service With on-demand access to Music at $10 a month would **t be e**ugh to keep it alive. He called the move into TV Apple's attempt to build "an Entire pop Cultural experience."
"At Apple Music, what we're trying to create is an Entire cultural, pop Cultural experience, and that happens to include audio and video," he told reporters Saturday at the Television Critics Association's winter press tour.
"If South Park walks into my ******, I am **t going to say you're **t musicians, you k**w?" Iovine continued when pressed about the report. "We're going to do whatever hits popular culture smack on the **se. We're going to try."
The Hollywood Reporter suggests that the Dr. Dre-starring Vital Signs could be among the first of Apple's scripted television ****** to launch this year, With six episodes rolling out all at once, following the Netflix strategy. Despite all of the information k**wn about Vital Signs since its an**uncement nearly a year ago last February, it's still unclear whether or **t users Will be able to stream the new Apple Music TV shows on an Apple TV, or just on iOS.
Besides Vital Signs, Apple is said to be working on a reality competition ****** called Planet of the Apps as well as an updated version of Carpool Karaoke. For its new push into television, the company plans to create original shows comparable to HBO's Westworld and Netflix's Stranger Things.