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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: 2) by richtopia on Friday November 11 2016, @12:06AM
Not always, but a high production television series can provide a superior story telling experience than a movie. The additional time allows so much more content, and the flow does not always need to have the climax 1:30 into the showing. I would also claim that original series is more common in television than films where remakes/sequels seem to dominate, my theory is that producing a pilot is cheap but really lets studios gain a feel for the risk in making the series.
Now this does nothing to explain the drive for more shows. We have seen an increase in big players in the space with Netflix and Amazon producing big budget shows, along with the massive increase of reality TV in the last decade or two.