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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: 4, Insightful) by rleigh on Thursday November 10 2016, @08:58PM
They have an uphill battle. Just watching Enterprise this evening on Netflix, getting towards the end of the Xindi arc. It's pretty dire.
I don't think budget is that important. What really matters is the scriptwriting. Intelligent, interesting and engaging plots can not be replaced by spending vast amounts of money on lavish sets, props and special effects.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:22PM
The Xindi arc was nothing more than 9/11 in space. Clearly there should be an entire season of Trek Discovery detailing how United Earth was ruled by the iron fist of a dictatorial real estate mogul until billionaire bloggers toppled his regime by crashing self driving cars into his hotels and ushering in the New World Economy.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:11PM
I really liked the premis of Enterprise. Like the original Startrek. A ship in space discovering civilisations, planets, technology. I waa looking forward to seeing the upgrade path from "we have a starship" to where NG started. So much promise.
But no. Someone thought a temporal cold war (wtF) would be such an excellent plot that it just had to happen. Seriously, wtf happened there? They had the elements for a great show then threw it out the window.
It was like watching Firefly die.
Or using Windows 8.0 for the first time.
Or using Windows 10.
*shudder*
(Score: 2) by rleigh on Saturday November 12 2016, @08:03PM
Definitely agreed on the premise. After not being keen on Voyager, I was cautiously optimistic about Enterprise. I do like aspects of it, but I overall found it boring. It had its moments, but I thought they developed the technology too quickly and I didn't think Bakula was a great captain, but mostly I felt that despite all the awesomeness of space travel and adventure, they managed to make the Enterprise seem... dull. There was a lot of potential there, but it just didn't come together.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday November 11 2016, @12:37AM
Acting can help too... I find Scott Bakula likable in other shows, but not a good starship captain - he's somewhere between Shatner strained, Stewart serious, and Frakes comical, and it just doesn't gel for me.
Of course, the writers for Enterprise did him no favors with the ever droning "no man has gone before" reminders and the "we're making this all up as we go along" stuff. The original Trek was also breaking new ground, without congratulating themselves for it every 5 minutes.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @01:28AM
> Just watching Enterprise this evening on Netflix, getting towards the end of the Xindi arc. It's pretty dire.
Enterprise sucked until they brought in a new showrunner, Manny Coto, for the last two seasons. He really gave it new life.
He was the same guy who did that long-lost gem Odyssey 5 and then after entreprise went on to do a bunch of work on 24.