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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: 3, Insightful) by RedGreen on Friday November 11 2016, @01:05AM
"Why is BBC America showing American audiences Star Trek reruns? Why do I have to go to Netflix to watch Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders, and Inspector Morse, as well as the BBC's own productions?"
Because the rights have been sold to someone else in your viewing area so they cannot legally show their own shows there. Copyright the gift that keeps on giving.
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