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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, @09:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:56PM (#425342)

    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.