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posted by martyb on Thursday November 10 2016, @08:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the acting-up dept.

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:23PM (#425320)

    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

    by art guerrilla (3082) on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:34PM (#425330)

    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

      by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:17PM (#425367) Journal

      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

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @01:23AM (#425505)

    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.