Yeah, I admit to vaguely assuming “Peak TV” was some kind of nuanced version of “Golden Age of TV”, but this article made clear it refers to quantity, not quality, of programming.
The alarming part of the article’s thesis is not that we can’t live with 275 scripted television programs instead of more than 400, but the prediction that it will be the original and diverse shows that will get differentials pruned. I’m not convinced that’s true. I happen to have liked GLOW, but even at its peak it was not exactly top shelf, A+ content, either commercially or artistically. OTOH, if something like “Orange is the New Black” came along, it seems like it would get renewed even in the current environment. Also, the assumption that there isn’t a mass audience for content about women, People of Color or Queer Folks is probably both unfounded and increasingly obsolete. The thesis also seemed to assume that the added pandemic costs will extend far into the future. Perhaps. Vaccines and therapeutics are coming (though not on the Trump-timetable), but they will not lead to the elimination of the Corona virus. Still, it seems reasonable to expect that by Spring of 2022 we will mostly be back to congregating indoors without face coverings, especially in workplaces where employees can be confirmed to have been both vaccinated and tested negatively within the last month (week?). If we still need to rely on face shields to manage the virus in two years, we will have bigger problems than losing B+ cable television programming. On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 8:35 AM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > Buried in the Rolling Stone article it notes that it was FX CEO John > Landgraf who came up with the term. I believe that at various TCAs over the > years he's presented charts that detail the ever increasing number of > original TV series that are being made - and I think he just considers US > productions! > > Even without Covid, the numbers will have to settle down at some point. > But we're still in the "invest to drive uptake" moment. Quibi may have died > but most of the other streamers are backed by big corporations who will > lose money on them for the foreseeable future. That's a bit different to > the old "licence to print money" TV model of yesteryear... > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 3:50 PM Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I had to google "peak tv" to understand what the phrase meant. I came >> across this website, intended for Canadians, which can help find where >> shows are available. >> >> https://peaktv.ca/ >> >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 9:10 AM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> One thing about the decline of newspapers is that we don't get access to >>> critics with insight about where the TV industry is going. Along with all >>> the disruptions from streaming platforms and their different business >>> models, now comes the pandemic and the ways it changes the production of >>> series. 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