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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:40PM
Its funny for years I got that 'let them eat cake' quote wrong in its context.
I took it as to mean 'let them eat something impractical' or 'let them eat the scraps from my table'
When the quote is more along the lines that she was so wildly out of touch she did not understand. She is like some suburbanite teenager saying 'those people should just get a job'. When the reality is they have nothing. She totally misunderstood the situation out of ignorance because of her position.
But if you want a more modern version. 'they should just get jobs' is what you are after.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:56PM
The funny thing is I've even heard "just get a job" from job interviewers during job interviews. Why are you applying for the advertised job opening here, they say, just go online and search for jobs elsewhere. Because I've found nothing, that's why. Job interviewers are idiots who have jobs and who don't understand how anyone can't just "get a job" like they did.
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Friday November 11 2016, @11:52AM
When the quote is more along the lines that she was so wildly out of touch she did not understand. She is like some suburbanite teenager saying 'those people should just get a job'. When the reality is they have nothing.
The story has I'm sure been distorted by time and history, but supposedly there was a shortage of bread flour and the peasants were struggling to get enough to eat. There was plenty of "cake" flour, but peasants were not allowed to or could not afford to use that. When told the peasants had no bread flour, the simple solution to her eyes was to "let them eat cake". As with almost all simple solutions (get a job, drill more oil, bomb ISIS, etc.), the reality is a whole lot more complex and such glib answers can be infuriating to those frustrated in their efforts to genuinely solve problems.