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America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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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• And often overlooked: (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:06PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:06PM (#425354)

  Is that DS9 offered character development for *BIT* characters. O'Brien, Keiko, Worf's son Alexander, etc all had parts in the series, and it really gave a lot of insight into life outside the confines of a starship, or 'shore leave'. Plus a lot of bit characters who later became integral parts of the show. It kind of felt like they attempted that (or possibly a spinoff) during TNG with Ro Laren and the other 'New Recruits' they had on enterprise for a while, but in the end other than Ro's Maquis arc the rest just sort of disappeared out of the show before the last season wrapped things up mostly with the core cast.

  Interesting to think about the possibilities if production and stories had been handled differently.

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