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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:39PM
Crap. And I have to buy that many to get the 5 channels I actually only watch.
If Mcdonalds operated the same way the cableco does...
Would you like fries with that big mac? Well, you have to buy the variety menu which comes with the fries, a salad, pickled scrotum, watermelon juice, and frogs eggs for an extra $63.