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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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Bridge ahead. Pay troll.
(Score: 2) by Celestial on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:49PM
Not entirely true, IMO. While Voyager was bad and Enterprise was terrible, Deep Space Nine was better than The Next Generation. Regardless, it's been twelve years and with (mostly) different people behind the scenes, so I have hope.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:06PM
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.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday November 11 2016, @08:55AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Celestial on Friday November 11 2016, @06:11PM
You're welcome. You should definitely check out Deep Space Nine. Like The Next Generation, the first two seasons range from bad to meh, but also like The Next Generation it finds its groove in the third season and Deep Space Nine is better than The Next Generation by the fourth season. So if you do check it out, hang in there. :)
(Score: 2) by tibman on Friday November 11 2016, @03:30PM
I actually liked Enterprise. There was a lot less hand-wavy magic technology to solve every problem. The overall feel was a lot darker too. The Enterprise routinely got the shit kicked out of it because an exploration vessel doesn't stand a chance against actual hostile forces. You had a better feel for how critical those magic technologies are to basic survival. I mean, the Enterprise didn't even have shields. It was a lot easier for Captain Picard to always take the moral high-road. He and his crew were well protected by the high state of technology and the federation itself.
The latest movie, Star Trek Beyond, makes more sense in that perspective. What terrible things did some of those captains/crew have to do to ensure the survival of humanity? They made sure humanity came out on top. Then politicians took that newfound strength and buried it in alien allies. Most would prefer more cooperation but those that lost friends or sacrificed parts of themselves during the pre-federation conflicts might not want aliens as equals.
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