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The TV business is facing its biggest explosion of new productions in the medium's history, sparking a billion-dollar arms race between established TV networks and a deep-pocketed insurgency of online streaming giants.
That boom is reshaping the industry from Atlanta to Hollywood, where even washed-up actors are suddenly in high demand and open studio space is the holy grail, said Henrik Bastin, executive producer of "Bosch," a gritty cop drama on Amazon.
Craftspeople, who once went months without a gig, are now fought over and recruited for shows that have become so ambitious, expensive and intricate they're "like making a movie each week," Bastin said.
Is the glut of new productions a flash in the pan, or a sign of things to come?
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America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Dunbal on Thursday November 10 2016, @08:16PM
With all these channels, there's nothing to watch besides Friends re-runs, Die Hard, and cooking shows.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @08:18PM
Soon there will be a whole new season of The Apprentice
(Score: 4, Insightful) by choose another one on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:18PM
And Orange is the New Black...
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:50PM
Coming up next: Big Brother - Trump Edition.
I've been saying for years they need to have more reality in Reality TV. Somehow this wasn't what I had in mind.
(Score: 2) by BananaPhone on Thursday November 10 2016, @08:18PM
And the reboots. Oh the AWFUL reboots...
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @08:25PM
Reboots? I run Linux and my machine has a uptime of 487 days
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @08:38PM
Off-Topic Linux bigotry will be modded Insightful BECAUSE LINUX.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:16PM
And you will be modded Flamebait BECAUSE DUMBFUCK.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:30PM
Thank you for replying, dumbfuck, because I LOVE YOU BACK.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:18PM
But usually those are the Hollywood big production company reboots. (They own all the rights, after all).
The new smaller production companies are often coming up with totally new stuff, not all of which is reality tv formula shows.
Some are network canceled series that move to Netflix or Amazon with most if not all of the same cast.
What I wan't to know is, WHY, with decades worth of very good British shows in the archives, is BBC America showing American audiences Star Trek reruns? Why do I have to go to Netflix to watch Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders, and Inspector Morse, as well as the BBC's own productions?
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @01:01AM
You answered your own question. Other companies pay more for them than BBC America can.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by RedGreen on Friday November 11 2016, @01:05AM
"Why is BBC America showing American audiences Star Trek reruns? Why do I have to go to Netflix to watch Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders, and Inspector Morse, as well as the BBC's own productions?"
Because the rights have been sold to someone else in your viewing area so they cannot legally show their own shows there. Copyright the gift that keeps on giving.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:23PM
There are no cooking shows any more. They are all reality competition shows, and they are all crap.
(Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:34PM
thank you...
not a foodie in the least (one of those who would not be heartbroken if i took all my required sustenance in a single pill), but used to love watching alton browns 'good eats' for the food science presented in a fairly entertaining way...
then it was all downhill from there with his road program, and now his idiotic food wars program (forget the naame) where they sabotage each others food preparation, etc...
alton, alton, alton, how have the mighty fallen... *sigh*
(Score: 3, Informative) by AthanasiusKircher on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:17PM
I saw Alton was going downhill the moment he started shilling for Shun. I know everybody's gotta make money somewhere, but Alton Brown always had a reputation on Good Eats for eschewing expensive kitchen gadgets and just saying, "You can do this much more simply and cheaply with X." How many times did he go "in search of equipment" on the show and end up recommending a cheap model that still had good technical characteristics instead of the more expensive gadget??
Not that I have anything against Shun knives. They're generally fine quality for mass-produced Japanese-style knives, quite above average actually. My problem is that they are massively overpriced. One can easily find hand-forged knives of similar quality produced with better materials by Japanese craftsmen for the price of a Shun. They may not be as perfect and pretty, but they're made to be tools, not stared at in a display case. (Yes, to get a beautiful perfect Japanese knife hand-forged, you'll usually pay a lot more.) Meanwhile, you can get to 95% of the quality of a Shun by buying a mass-produced Japanese-style knife from other brands for 1/4 or 1/3 of the cost in most cases. And if you know how to sharpen properly (and why would you spend hundreds of dollars on knives if you don't even know how to keep them sharp on a daily basis?!), those cheaper knives are just as good as Shun.
Meanwhile, Alton Brown has been encouraging folks to buy these overpriced mass-produced knives and says he doesn't even sharpen himself but sends them out! He also never seemed to learn the difference between ridged vs. smooth steels (and why the former aren't appropriate for Japanese knives, or really any decent knife). That's not the Alton Brown I remember, who was committed to education. But I'm sure Shun paid him well....
(He did finally come to his senses about a year ago and posted some more reasonable information on his blog on knives. Still not perfect, but the whole Shun thing made me doubt his sincerity and unbiased recommendations for the first time.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @01:23AM
PBS has tons of straight up legit cooking shows. They have so many that my local PBS station which has 3 sub-channels regularly runs two different cooking shows simultaneously.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @01:36AM
> With all these channels, there's nothing to watch besides Friends re-runs, Die Hard, and cooking shows.
That's your problem. Who pays attention to channels any more? Watch shows.
Bosch, as mentioned in the summary, is a fantastic show. I think its on netflix.
Transparent on amazon is great.
Lucifer (adaptation of neil gaiman commic) is your basic crime-of-the-week but clever fun because of the lead.
Humans (from the BBC) is an awesome android story
Jessica Jones, the Punisher, Luke Cage all great gritty super-hero shows.
Real Oneals and Speechless are pretty good sitcoms (kevin can wait, man with a plan are not)
And Stranger Things, holy shit was that a ton of fun.
Stop settling for what's "on" and start looking for what's great.