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Jul 21, 2023 · So most of the biggest media and entertainment companies of sort of the prior generation - many of them today make a lot of their money, if not most of their money, from cable networks.
- Terry Gross
Action movies are still quickly paced and dramas are still slow and drawn out. Modern movie-going audiences are more likely to sit down for a longer film, and binging long tv shows over relatively short periods of time has become commonplace, so I would argue people today actually have better attention spans than people in the past.
Dec 12, 2023 · The rise of so-called “zombie networks” is the consequence of media companies spending the last few years building out libraries of splashy shows and movies for their streaming service. What once was a risky move for an actor or director had quickly become the norm and the ideal way to get a big check and creative freedom for a project.
Dec 19, 2023 · More than a decade after TV stations shut down analog broadcasts and fully transitioned to digital, the industry is once again making major changes to the way stations transmit over-the-air signals.
- Matt Sepic
Sep 7, 2022 · In the revolutionary rush toward streaming TV, much of the old business ways fell aside. Creators, who could once aim for syndication and rebroadcasting fees, “are being paid far less. Far, far ...
They are spending more per episode and taking longer to make them, so seasons are shorter and farther apart. Networks are more worries about long-term commitments. The cheap option is reality TV these days, so dramas and comedies are treated more like special breaks in the normal schedule, Basically, everything's a "summer replacement series" now.
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There is barely anything even watchable nowadays. We used to get 26 episodes per season now we get a single rushed storyline in 8-10 episodes. Things just went seriously downhill after the GFC and not just in TV. I don't like "monster of the week" formula, and I'd rather watch a 3 TV shows with 8 episodes than 1 TV show with 24 episodes.
