But the traditional TV industry is not dead just yet.
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Here's why that could be terrible for the TV industry
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That's not quite how it works in the TV industry.
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"Things kept getting shittier in the TV industry," he recalls.
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NBC is doing a solid for the traditional pay-TV industry.
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Europe's TV industry is fractured, with no one sports broadcaster dominating.
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Exactly what does Tinsley Studios do in the film and TV industry?
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The TV industry and fans around the world have rallied around Trebek.
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Big tech companies with lots of cash have officially crashed the TV industry.
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My experiences covering the TV industry have made me believe there's another way.
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Peter Kafka: A year ago investors were very worried about the TV industry.
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The founders already know the TV industry inside out — at least in France.
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It was the week that the TV industry sounded the alarms: Work together.
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But that old plan received widespread pushback from the cable and TV industry.
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Amazon, Netflix (NFLX) and other tech giants have already upended the TV industry.
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That's $20 billion per year in easy money for the pay TV industry.
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The 6 biggest things that are shaking up the TV industry right now
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But nothing the cable companies do is stopping the affliction terrorizing the TV industry.
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Mux wants to provide it for the $400 billion TV industry that's moving online.
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It's clear that Molotov is moving a bit too fast for the TV industry.
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The pay-TV industry is still opposed to Wheeler's current proposal despite the changes.
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And to this date Apple has only taken tentative steps into the TV industry.
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But TV industry executives I've talked to view Apple's plans as a mixed bag.
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Nilay, take it away: Why can't the TV industry get rid of IR blasters?
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Her starring roles in the 1990s made Heather Locklear a sex symbol in the TV industry.
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He should acknowledge his own inherent privilege as a white, successful man in the TV industry.
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The worldwide streaming service Netflix is also currently working on a show with Turkey's TV industry.
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In part by funding and supporting creatives in a way the legacy TV industry just wouldn't.
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Facebook and Google have likewise ramped up efforts to make a splash in the TV industry.
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It's also possible Netflix wants to appease a TV industry seeking greater clarity about Netflix's viewership.
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The sudden cancellation of the hit series came as a major shock to the TV industry.
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It was a very real hit that changed the TV industry in more ways than one.
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The high ratings have exceeded the expectations of NBC executives and surprised others in the TV industry.
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Although TV industry press reported that the decision to end the show had been taken months before.
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Meanwhile, the vibrant Mexican film and TV industry was mostly based in other locations (primarily Mexico City).
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The big picture: The spat is part of a larger existential crisis facing the traditional TV industry.
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These numbers reflect a TV industry that's much healthier than it once was in terms of diversity.
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Is the TV industry so in trouble that its bosses couldn't handle 20 minutes of grilling by critics?
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Mojo presides over Mojo World's TV industry, and he wields all the power and influence as a result.
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It's hoped that this new approach (nabbed from the TV industry), will keep the franchise fresh and exciting.
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The pay-TV industry is at an inflection point, top media analyst Tuna Amobi told CNBC on Tuesday.
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Do you have any impressions about how the TV industry has changed or how that technology has changed?
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No, the movie and TV industry don't command any divisions, provide tanks, or map out winning battlefield maneuvers.
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In Washington, D.C., the pay-TV industry is fighting to maintain the status quo, and why wouldn't they?
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Many TV industry executives were divided on whether or not a new version of "Roseanne" would take off.
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In the TV industry, The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a pioneer in gender diversity behind the scenes.
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But you're about the only person I've heard in the TV industry who treats the issue this seriously.
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Reed Hastings at Netflix plans to destroy the conventional TV industry by selling films and shows over the internet.
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There's more potential to grow abroad, especially as the pay TV industry isn't as developed in places like Europe.
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Many employees in the reality TV industry also sign nondisclosure agreements, in part to prevent the release of spoilers.
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Netflix turned the TV industry upside down and built itself into a powerhouse on the back of its series.
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If the TV industry is going to engage in such obvious necrophilia, shouldn't they focus on better looking corpses?
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The Emmys, also known as the Primetime Emmy Awards, are held each year to recognize members of the TV industry.
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My point is that, within the TV industry, Moonves's roots are deep, and they spread beyond his most recent domain.
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An important factor for the streaming/bundled TV industry will also be attracting new customers who weren't cable customers before.
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Axios media reporter Sara Fischer explains why the changes in the TV industry could affect your cable and internet bills.
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So such a move could definitely shake up the TV industry and would be a welcome option for cord cutters.
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The deceleration was particularly stark given that there was an improved advertising market across the rest of the TV industry.
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"True Detective" became a cautionary tale in the TV industry about how easy it is to lose a hot hand.
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Total funding to date: $57.8 millionWhy it's an acquisition target: Bringing digital-like measurement to the TV industry is messy.
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But the TV industry of the time wasn't quite as attuned to antiheroes and the like as it is now.
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The first thing we did because the resistance was out of the TV industry, they did not want us in.
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Why it matters: Nielsen has long been painted by much of the TV industry as being antiquated and slow to evolve.
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The TV industry, for the most part, is fine with that but worried about those students sharing credentials with their friends.
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This was "Upfront" week for the TV industry, where everyone gets together for big presentations and parties and mingling and dealmaking.
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In-app editing tools let Mevo Plus users cut, pan, and zoom between multiple live shots – like TV industry professionals do.
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Needing this merger to determine which shows are popular is very funny, of course; the entire TV industry runs on ratings.
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Though the pay-TV industry is tackling subscriber losses, Dish is expected to post higher earnings due to higher subscriber rates.
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Last year, he told a group of TV industry reporters that his show "Celebrity Apprentice" was number one in the ratings.
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Holderness, who works in the TV industry, makes videos with his wife, Kim, and their two children, Lola and Penn Charles.
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However, progress has been slow due to a lack of capital in the cable TV industry and its fragmented industry structure.
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So the TV industry has spent less time trying to track TV on Facebook, even though it's much bigger than Twitter.
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Before the "Potter" films, the city had a healthy advertising and TV industry, but its feature-film industry wasn't particularly robust.
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Analysts said Mr. Ergen appeared to be building a new telecom business to compensate for declining growth in the TV industry.
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When the expensive but poorly reviewed "Marco Polo" got clipped in December, it qualified as a surprise to the TV industry.
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Its success also made way for the coming deluge of streaming-first series, which have since completely upended the TV industry.
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Not long ago, there was real self-reflection within the TV industry about whether too much television was a good thing.
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That lost revenue is especially important because the pay-TV industry is already losing subscribers to cheaper online rivals like Netflix Inc.
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The streaming revolution, which promised to break down lots of barriers in the TV industry, is beginning to morph into something else.
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Whether those shared viewing experiences represent a celebration or a wake is once again the subject of debate in TV industry circles.
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The state has actively courted the film and TV industry, passing a 30% tax credit in 2008 for productions shot in Georgia.
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The film and TV industry has come under particular scrutiny recently over its role in perpetuating stereotypes and unfairly representing minority characters.
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"We believe that we are at the beginning of a massive technological shift in the TV industry," Weiss said in an email.
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I chatted with Alan Wolk, leading TV industry analyst and co-founder and lead analyst of TV[R]EV, on his take.
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Although the HBO series is more popular, "Talk the Thrones" may be a better sign of how the TV industry might evolve.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the company inspired big companies that have been trying to make a move in the TV industry.
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The TV industry made the promise of open cable in 2008, and now it's time to see which dream actually comes true.
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The WWE Diva -- with a huge hand from her low cut gown -- managed to make a boring TV industry event worth attending.
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While PWC predicts the cord-cutting phenomenon weakening in 2017, the U.S. pay-TV industry is coming off a particularly brutal year.
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It's fun to follow the TV industry like sports — keeping an eye on what's new, what's a hit and what has bombed.
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Endorsements also came from two influential names in the TV industry: "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane and "Star Trek" actor George Takei.
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The TV industry is scrambling to capitalize on the turmoil, seeing a rare opportunity to dislodge Fox from its No. 1 spot.
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And when I talk to folks in the TV industry, very few of them suggest the future I've laid out above is unlikely.
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These projects post huge ratings and (even better in a TV industry driven by buzz as much as anything else) endless media speculation.
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Bigger than that, however, is the impact on the TV industry: will more tech companies now snap up prime-time live TV rights?
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That assertion is not backed up by Nielsen -- the agreed-upon currency for the TV industry -- since OANN is not rated by it.
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In 2015, we estimate that cable TV industry revenue was around CNY90bn, compared with CTCL's and CUHKL's EBITDA of CNY94bn and CNY88bn, respectively.
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LAS VEGAS — The National Association of Broadcasters Show has long been a place for companies to showcase new tech for the TV industry.
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It said in September that it might lose up to 150,000 due to recent hurricanes and increased competition in the pay-TV industry.
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The investigation comes as the U.S. cable and satellite TV industry ranks among the lowest in consumer surveys over billing and other practices.
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Their success forced the TV industry to reconsider how it was telling workplace stories, and how it was casting women characters in general.
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The decline in writers' pay is tied to changes in the TV industry, many of which are clear to the average TV viewer.
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The TV industry is unveiling its coming season to advertisers in Manhattan this week, at a series of events known as the upfronts.
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After all, the gossip column called the news "a wild rumor flying around the TV industry" and published it on April Fools' Day.
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The TV industry is unveiling its coming season to advertisers in Manhattan this week at a series of events known as the upfronts.
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Of course, Amazon isn't the only tech giant that has sought to upend the TV industry and make video easier to watch online.
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The pay TV industry may not be dying, but it is "slowly grinding down," said Michael Nathanson, a founder of research firm MoffettNathanson.
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The TV exec has been outspoken about the fact that consolidation is coming to the satellite-TV industry, which is in secular decline.
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As a relatively late (2005) entry to the cable TV industry, Verizon has been slightly more receptive to the complaints of cord cutters.
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"Unfortunately, the highly competitive pay TV industry, with expensive content and network deals, has been slower to change than we expected," Sony said.
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But in many other ways, it feels as if Netflix is becoming ever more like the TV industry it aimed to shake up.
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Most of the resistance comes from the accusation that the casting decision is another case of whitewashing in the film and TV industry.
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But the V-chip only blocks TV shows based on broad ratings set by the TV industry; it doesn't edit or filter individual shows.
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In my research for this story, I had dozens of conversations with people in the TV industry, and Ned's execution came up a lot.
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It's also helped contribute to the more than $7 billion Georgia generated via the film and TV industry during fiscal year 2016, he said.
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The statement comes as some in the film and TV industry have said they will boycott working in the state because of the law.
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We discuss Apple's new embrace of the TV industry, and why it's okay that there aren't any revolutionary advances in the look of laptops.
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Moreover, Time Warner could support DirecTV by helping AT&T keep together the bundling of channels — the cash cow of the pay-TV industry.
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Once again, the powerful and wealthy pay-TV industry is playing politics with Americans' access to vital programming in order to pad their pocketbooks.
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The TV industry is increasingly a multi-pronged attempt to make money off as many shows as possible, in as many ways as possible.
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But the proposal has rankled the pay-TV industry, which the FCC says brings in about $20 billion a year from renting the boxes.
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Most streaming alternatives have ditch the traditional cable box, the monopoly over which generates the cable TV industry an additional $21 billion every year.
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Comcast, Fox, Disney and WarnerMedia currently account for about 20 percent of Netflix's content library, according to data from TV industry research company Ampere Analysis.
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This has especially far-reaching implications in the TV industry, where writers are often in charge, serving as producers and directors as well as writers.
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Still, in a film and TV industry predominantly focused on the stories of men, it's glorious to find tales of sisters doing it for themselves.
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In spite of all the focus on gender inequity in the film and TV industry over the past few years, the discrepancies are still dire.
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Samsung has dominated the mobile OLED market with its displays for years, and now it looks to be turning its sights on the TV industry.
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According to most experts, these actions will spark more consolidation in the TV industry at a time when the broadcast industry is undergoing monumental change.
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The pay-TV industry instead supports a proposal that would allow them to create applications that allow viewers to access different types of video content.
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" If the de Havilland decision were allowed to stand, Ms. Rothman said, "then that upends the film industry, the TV industry, the video game industry.
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I no longer felt the same positive confidence in my professional worth or the same optimism about a future in the film and TV industry.
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But if it's a hit with subscribers, and if Netflix executives are impressed with the results, the implications for the TV industry could be significant.
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This year, several streaming services will enter an already crowded market, at a time when the traditional TV industry is trying to limit its losses.
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Though Johnson's blog post didn't mention anything about this, it's also possible Netflix wants to appease a TV industry seeking greater clarity about Netflix's viewership.
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Comcast and Fox had been embroiled in a bidding war for Sky, which is viewed as a coveted international asset in the pay-TV industry.
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In fact, per ABC executives, the presidential election and Roseanne's subsequent success has inspired the TV industry to consider a "heartland strategy" when approaching their programming.
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Malone has built his empire over more than 40 years of dealmaking in the cable and pay-TV industry, earning him the nickname the "Cable Cowboy".
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Disney's purchase, which will cost a total of $52.4 billion in stock, has added to its status as a titan in the film and TV industry.
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While these TV makers are making CES 2018 announcements, Alexa works with other partners in the TV industry, often by the way of add-on skills.
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Georgia has become a popular production spot for the film and TV industry, with movies such as Avengers: Endgame and shows like Netflix's Insatiable filmed there.
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Per the Interactive Advertising Bureau's latest TV industry study, 56% of U.S. adults own a streaming-enabled television, up from one-third of adults in 2015.
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Reilly has a long history of launching bold new initiatives in hopes of shaking up a TV industry that has been largely the same for decades.
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But the show instantly grew so much richer when it looked beyond Piper — and both viewers and the TV industry noticed how much richer it grew.
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"The decision to exit the European Union is a major blow to the U.K. film and TV industry," Michael Ryan says in a statement to Variety.
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The TV industry is making better shows than they ever have, but is suffering because they have little understanding of modern consumer behavior and choice architecture.
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In short, contrary to the hopes (or delusions) of some in the TV industry, the NFL is not immune to these larger societal and viewing dynamics.
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All of this, taken together, will cause a crisis in the TV industry which will finally drive it to embrace new business models and broader distribution.
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Most of the players exiting the scripted TV industry are ones who don't have natural studio partners in the way that, say, Showtime or FX do.
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Live TV has been carrying the TV industry, but questions of the Olympics being canceled over the novel coronavirus serve as another reminder of its vulnerability.
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"Unfortunately, the highly competitive pay TV industry, with expensive content and network deals, has been slower to change than we expected," Sony said back in October.
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The TV industry analysts at eMarketer have put together the 2020 TV and Video Trends report, which lists out eight bold predictions for the year ahead.
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In general, these shows are in a poor spot right now, due to a dearth of writers in the TV industry who excel at standalone episodes.
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But Viacom's shaky outlook underscores how price pressure is rippling through all corners of the TV industry, causing some traditional content producers to suffer as well.
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Once a little-known company outside of the TV industry, Sinclair has become infamous in political circles for its "must run" segments promoting pro-Trump talking points.
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This is my second internship working in the TV industry and it's nice to be at a smaller company because I am given a lot of responsibility.
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"The highly competitive Pay TV industry, with expensive content and network deals, has been slower to change than we expected," Sony said in an announcement on Tuesday.
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The company was founded by the late Blake Krikorian, who helped introduced the concept of place-shifting to the TV industry through the creation of Sling Media.
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Netflix has disrupted the TV industry to such a large extent that it's only natural investors might be curious if it would set its sights on sports.
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The TV industry is constantly trying to find ways to entice people to upgrade their old sets, and CES is its biggest sales pitch of the year.
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The movie and TV industry, long a center of cosmopolitan liberalism, often finds itself cast as the villain in the stories that red-state America tells itself.
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CBS's longtime C.E.O. stepped down last night after a 15-year reign that turned the network from an also-ran to a king of the TV industry.
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She&aposs been in the TV industry for over 22020 years, making her the Guinness World Record winner for the female entertainer with the longest TV career.
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Just as we collectively transitioned from standard definition to high definition earlier this century, the TV industry is making it pretty hard to avoid upgrading to 4K.
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Gretchen Carlson penned a powerful op-ed in the New York Times that revealed a disturbing case of harassment in the TV industry long before her famous lawsuit.
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But overall, the nominee list is a sobering reminder that the TV Academy and the TV industry needs to make some major improvements when it comes to diversity.
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So if a strike did happen this week, it would've been an unprecedented shutdown of the TV industry, one that would've hit variety and late-night shows instantly.
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Many in the pay TV industry viewed the digital upstart as a challenge to their longtime business of selling bundles of channels delivered via cable wires or satellites.
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Gady Epstein, our media editor, discusses the rise of Netflix and whether the TV industry is sowing the seeds of its own demise by producing too many shows.
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Now, apparently, the TV industry ever since then has said music doesn't work on TV. If Paul McCartney can't get the numbers to go up, who's going to?
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Satellite- and streaming-TV provider Dish Network, meanwhile, was as close to a bright spot as the pay-TV industry has yet to see during the second quarter.
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But we also talked about his personal history and what brought him — someone with an anthropology degree, of all things — to the TV industry in the first place.
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It's an awkward time for a feud: The TV industry is heading into "staffing season," where networks finalize their fall lineups and hire writers to work on shows.
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The overall TV industry calendar has also been upended, thanks to the scrapping of the upfronts, the annual schmooze-fest of advertisers, television executives and prime-time stars.
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Live sports has been carrying the TV industry, and the coronavirus fallout could serve as a reminder of just how vulnerable the some-$70-billion industry really is.
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We considered the issues the companies were trying to solve, from building technology to modernizing the decades-old TV industry and preparing marketers for privacy legislation and regulation.
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Dish has been battling the same customer attrition as much of the pay TV industry, having posted its worst quarter ever earlier this year in terms of subscriber loss.
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The British film and TV industry may be getting nervous after the surprising vote on Brexit will unravel their financial infrastructure, which could be a disaster for the business.
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In a blog post, Sony blamed the "highly competitive pay TV industry, with expensive content and network deals," and said it would rather focus on its core gaming business.
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I got the chance to talk with Metz during this turning point in her career — which also happens to be a turning point for the TV industry at large.
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After Shaun's birth, Michael took three days off -- he works in Atlanta's film and TV industry as a production coordinator -- and was back on the job by the weekend.
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Consumers may soon reach the burnout point with paywalls, leading to an opportunity for the kind of bundled product that has been so successful for the pay-TV industry.
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Google is reportedly readying its entry into the online TV industry with a YouTube service by the name of "Unplugged," which would feature a skinny bundle of TV channels.
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We had ambitious goals for how our service could change how people watch TV, showcasing PlayStation's ability to innovate in a brand-new category within the Pay TV industry.
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Gretchen Carlson, the longtime Fox News anchor, stunned the TV industry with a lawsuit accusing the network's chairman, Roger Ailes, of firing her after she refused his sexual advances.
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Milano, of TV's "Who's the Boss," had opposed the bill and urged the film and TV industry, which shoots many projects in Georgia, to leave if it became law.
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When I need to know what's going on in the TV industry, I almost always turn to the articles and/or Twitter feed of New York magazine's Josef Adalian.
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Disney, ESPN's parent company, has seen cable network revenues dip over the past few years as content rights and production becomes expensive — a trend across the entire TV industry.
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The gaming industry is more fragmented than the movie and TV industry, so it makes sense to talk about the service publicly even if it's not ready just yet.
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Instead, Google is offering a service-based video-game platform that goes where you are — like the music industry, the film industry, and the TV industry have already done.
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It gave Netflix a bold entry into the TV landscape when it debuted in 2013, and in the five years since, the tech giant has upended the TV industry.
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It's ironic that we're falling back on older technology to supplant newer co-ax, fiber and satellite-based delivery, but this is the state of the TV industry today.
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On paper, Mr. Hastings's plan to take on the traditional TV industry has long sounded slightly nutty, as delusional as Jeff Bezos's strategy at Amazon to overrun retailing once seemed.
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And in explaining why, series co-creator Michael Schur offered a good argument against another season of Parks that the rest of the TV industry may want to learn from.
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"Bravo to the Television Academy and the TV industry overall for showing the rest of the industry the way," said Gil Robertson, president of the African-American Film Critics Association.
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I'm not connecting these dots to suggest that any of our current culture is a conscious creation on the part of the TV industry, or pop culture, or the country.
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B-roll is a TV industry term for the brief clips that run on mute to illustrate a segment while an anchor is narrating or a talking head is commentating.
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While the latest developments are undoubtedly progress, there's a case to be made that a different approach during negotiations with the TV industry could've led to a far different outcome.
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Though Netflix does not disclose viewership data — much to the frustration of the rest of the TV industry — by other measures "Stranger Things" has been the hit of the summer.
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If they want to challenge the TV industry, they would need to successfully incorporate original programming, network programming, and major live events... and marry that programming with their user community.
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Given the economics of the movie and TV industry, given the instant internet feedback machine and given the mechanics of storytelling since time immemorial — are satisfying endings even possible here?
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The powerlessness and humiliation that so many women in the film and TV industry have been struggling with feels like an ever more urgent rallying cry for a progressive future.
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As consumers cut the cord and move to streaming services, advertisers are navigating a plethora of platforms that are trying to get a piece of the $70 billion TV industry.
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" She used most of her speech to reminisce about the TV industry of the 1960s and '70s, ending with her signature line, "I'm so glad we got this time together.
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But changes in the TV industry are evident in the nominations, and the set of sexual assault allegations in Hollywood made an impact in at least one category as well.
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Trying to bring the spirit of Norman Lear's 1970s sitcom masterpieces like All in the Family to the modern era has a long history of failure in the TV industry.
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Georgia has become a go-to production destination for the film and TV industry, with shows such as The Walking Dead and blockbuster movies like Avengers: Endgame among those filmed there.
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Permira said a subsidiary had agreed to buy the UK-based unit, which it will turn into a new, rebranded company focused on developing video software for the pay-TV industry.
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The self-governing solution the TV industry proposed to Congress and the FCC more than 20 years ago isn't really self-governing, it's self-serving – and it isn't working for families.
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She reportedly wants to be moved to a smaller assisted living facility that caters specifically to people in the film and TV industry, but she was denied due to her debt.
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Facebook's partnership with MTV and Real World-creator Bunim/Murray Productions comes as part of a slew of original video content announcements revealed today at the MIPCOM TV industry trade show.
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Products as platforms What's stopped the Apple TV from creating a revolution in how we watch TV is the inability of the TV industry to work with Apple in supplying content.
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While diversity is a hot topic in the film and TV industry right now, Vergara told The EDIT that she doesn't "dare" complain, given her own success as a Latina actress.
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The motion picture and TV industry has brought in more than 85033,000 jobs and nearly $4.6 billion in wages in Georgia since 2010, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.
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The TV industry dealt with this issue by having periodic re-negotiations between distributors and content originators on price (typically every few years or so), with ratings often driving the conversation.
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Kevin Griffis, Planned Parenthood's vp of communications, said the organization had restructured their communications teams in order to more effectively work with the TV industry and others to combat abortion stigma.
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FreeWheel is also part of several TV-industry groups, like OpenAP, that are trying to solve issues such as the ability to buy specific audiences across national TV and digital ads.
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Rabe, in his FAS interview, said it was vital to deregulate the European TV industry because the rules governing it predate the creation of platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Netflix.
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O.J. Simpson could be released from prison as early as October, and the buzz in the reality TV industry is that some producers are getting ready to scramble to sign him.
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But that doesn't win them as much power as it should on set, because the TV industry is an old boys' club that rewards dick size more than it does brain cells.
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Martin and Hilmar Lehnert, Sonos' senior director of audio systems engineering, work together with producers and artists across the music and TV industry and simply ask them if their speakers are accurate.
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To try to understand if there's actual validity to this theory, I reached out to Linda Ong, chief culture officer at Civic Entertainment Group, which advises the TV industry on consumer sensibilities.
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With Game of Thrones over, one big question hangs over the TV industry, TV fans, and people who more casually enjoy water-cooler shows: Will there ever be another show like this?
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"There has been a mafia-style carve up of the nation, market by market, where cable companies don't compete with each other," one very senior executive in the TV industry told me.
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While watching, it was clear the producers wanted to celebrate the great strides they perceived the TV industry to be making, but it felt like a minute-long pat on the back.
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There is some skepticism within the TV industry about how accurate Nielsen's streaming numbers will be, but many acknowledge they are an important step in finding a reliable third-party measurement system.
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Twenty years ago, web publishers dreamed of delivering video ads online: It was the perfect format, already proved by the TV industry to be engaging to audiences and a big revenue generator.
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Actress Alyssa Milano staunchly opposes the legislation and has urged the film and TV industry, which shoots many projects in Georgia, to get out of the state if the bill becomes law.
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The threat of the big boys has never been an issue for Starry founder Chet Kanojia, although his last venture — Aereo, which took on the entire TV industry — didn't fare so well.
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The pay-TV industry just reported its worst-ever first quarter subscriber loss, at an estimated 8.53,28.5 subscribers, over five times last year's loss of 23.26,23.02, according to a research note by MoffettNathanson.
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Be smart: The TV industry knows it needs to make ads more innovative so it doesn't continue to lose viewers to ad-free services, but the short-term business calculus isn't always attractive.
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The excess profits of the health-care firms are equivalent to $200 per American per year, compared with $69 for the telecoms and cable TV industry and $25 captured by the airline oligopoly.
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As the pay-TV industry tackles subscriber losses, Dish has been trying to lure viewers to its cheaper $215.02-per-month Sling TV, an online streaming service with a smaller bundle of channels.
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While she plays alongside John Oliver and Seth Meyers in Late Night's fantasy rendering of the TV industry, there is currently no female late night talk show host on a major broadcast network.
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The licensing of CBN, which was established in 2014 by the Chinese broadcasting regulator to consolidate China's fragmented cable TV industry, is unlikely to have a significant impact on the three telecoms incumbents.
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The company, which also owns cable television's Showtime, is anticipating continued affiliate revenue growth at a time when the pay TV industry just reported its worst-ever subscriber loss for the first quarter.
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Comcast, the No.1 U.S. cable operator, said on Thursday it lost 125,000 video subscribers in the third quarter, mainly due to the recent hurricanes and more competition in the pay TV industry.
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A deal for Fox would allow Comcast to better adapt to new trends in the pay-TV industry, as consumers abandon traditional cable bundles in favor of web-based offerings such as Netflix.
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Coming from the cable TV industry may help Stern hammer out deals that will give Apple's TV service top content while not scaring off executives who still fear Apple's control over the industry.
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The new, rebranded company will be "focused on developing and delivering video solutions for the Pay-TV industry," and it will unveil its new name and more details after the transaction is closed.
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If you look back at much of the writing published around the dawn of television, you'll find a streak of utopian thinking that the development of the TV industry didn't ultimately bear out.
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The TV industry would rather rehash old shows than find other LGBTQ creators who have new stories; fortunately, there's now new TV everywhere, including on Facebook, which hosts the fantastic queer comedy Strangers.
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At the same time, the TV industry desperately needs the big audiences that sports deliver, especially because viewers are more likely to consume such events live, reducing the threat of zapping past commercials.
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Nielsen's new Netflix ratings service has its first public results, and they confirm what a lot of people in the TV industry felt but didn't know for sure: "Stranger Things" is a hit.
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The woman -- listed as an acquaintance who knew Moonves through her job in the TV industry -- claims the 1986 incident included forced oral sex, and the 1988 allegations include indecent exposure and assault.
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"In other words, if a major brand marketer or agency moves money to TV and out of digital, the TV industry will see the benefit whereas the digital industry might not truly feel it."
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In a PEOPLE exclusive look at the trailer for This Changes Everything, some of the most renowned female stars and creators in the film and TV industry are taking a stand for gender equality.
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How we got here: The deal was made possible because of an FCC ruling that voted to reduce the limits on broadcast ownerships, easing the way for broadcast consolidation within the declining TV industry.
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Ahead of the launch, Apple negotiated deals that would let Apple bundle and sell networks at a discount, replicating a business model from the cable TV industry, one source familiar with the matter said.
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The central narrative in the global film/TV industry right now is the response of incumbent companies to the growing dominance of Netflix, Amazon, and other streaming (aka "OTT" or over-the-top) services.
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According to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, the delays to Apple's long rumored TV service have been due to the company's unprecedented demands and brash negotiating tactics with the TV industry.
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CEO Guillaume Lacroix said that he and his co-founders all come from the French TV industry, where they were all "frustrated not to be able to follow up the conversation" on social media.
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As the pay-TV industry tackles subscriber losses, Dish has been trying to lure viewers to its cheaper $23.78-per-month Sling TV, an online streaming service that offers a smaller bundle of channels.
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The Federal Trade Commission could also do a "sweep" of the smart-TV industry, which would mean testing smart TVs from major manufacturers and potentially taking enforcement action based on its findings, he said.
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The word at the party was that Fox had chosen to take the "high road" with the digital giants, despite the billions of dollars those companies have been siphoning away from the TV industry.
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The TV industry has recently become more motivated to change its old-school way of delivering ads because consumers are largely rejecting ad-supported programming, instead opting to purchase ad-free subscription services like Netflix.
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With the launch of analytics, TV Time aims to make use of all this data by offering it to clients in the TV industry who are looking for more comprehensive viewership data for planning purposes.
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And while that's led to increased attention on Mark Burnett and other TV industry figures, Burnett, the TV producer behind The Apprentice, he has repeatedly said that legal contracts prevent the release of any footage.
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"Since his initial proposal, the Chairman has worked assiduously to address all the legitimate concerns raised by some programmers and the pay-TV industry," John Bergmayer, Senior Counsel at Public Knowledge, said in a statement.
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In the 2018 fiscal year, the film and TV industry in Georgia was responsible for 92,100 jobs and nearly $4.6 billion total wages in the state, according to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
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"In our view, the A-League would provide an ideal environment, given that the Australian TV industry has years of experience and technology know-how in this area," Gallop told the Herald Sun on Monday.
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The biggest news out of the TV industry this week has been that ABC has closed a deal to bring back American Idol, which last aired in 2016 (and on a different network, no less).
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She had personally recruited big names like Nicki Clyne and Grace Park, and their collective success in the film and TV industry was quickly becoming a draw for new actors wanting to connect with them.
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"Since his initial proposal, the Chairman has worked assiduously to address all the legitimate concerns raised by some programmers and the pay-TV industry," John Bergmayer, Senior Counsel at Public Knowledge, said earlier this month.
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At CBS, where he was senior vice president from 1988 to 1993, Mr. Kriegel helped persuade Congress to require the cable TV industry to pay broadcasters for the right to retransmit over-the-air programming.
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However, as Carlson points out in her piece, the TV industry isn't the only place with a toxic culture: the National Women's Law Center reports that nearly half of women have been sexually harassed at work.
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Our rating contemplates the structural headwinds facing the pay-TV industry which we do not think is reflected in consensus estimates and valuation, our rating is not a call on the May 9th investor day disappointing.
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According to experts, these actions will spark a new spate of mergers, acquisitions, and consolidation in the TV industry at a time when the Trump administration has shifted toward a more favorable policy toward mergers, generally.
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I call it "when are they gonna get to the fireworks factory?" television, after the 1997 Simpsons episode "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" (still one of the best TV episodes about the TV industry ever made).
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A 2006 UCLA study found that the California film and television industry created 8.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide; the number for the U.S. film and TV industry as a whole was 15 million tons.
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I talk to a lot of people in the TV industry, and those who work for networks aimed at kids have been thinking about how to attract these younger viewers for more than a decade now.
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To be sure, increases in representation across the TV industry remain tenuous, as the total percentage of representative characters remains in the single digits (and representation of people with disabilities and the transgender community remains slim).
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They include an "Amazing Stories" reboot executive produced by Steven Spielberg, an adaptation of Isaac Asimov's classic "Foundation" books and "The Morning Show," a drama set in the morning TV industry starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon.
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The US pay TV industry as a whole lost 2.87 million net customers in 2018, numbers expected to be significantly worse once 2019 subscriber totals are released (Verizon lost 67,000 TV customers in the third quarter alone).
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc's third-quarter video losses sent pay-TV industry shares down on Thursday after Wall Street analysts raised concerns about the continued threat of consumers cancelling their cable and satellite television subscriptions.
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Georgia's film industry could be affected Actress Alyssa Milano has staunchly opposed the bill and has urged the film and TV industry, which shoots many projects in Georgia, to get out of the state if it becomes law.
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And then there are food nerds like us, who anxiously await news of what's on the menu at the Emmy Awards Governors Ball — which is basically an epic afterparty for everyone who is anyone in the TV industry.
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Georgia's film industry could be affected Actress Alyssa Milano has staunchly opposed the bill and had urged the film and TV industry, which shoots many projects in Georgia, to get out of the state if it becomes law.
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The moves are part of an effort by the TV industry as a whole to catch up to digital advertising behemoths like Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook, where the ability to target ads has long been more advanced.
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The moves are part of an effort by the TV industry as a whole to catch up to digital advertising behemoths like Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook, where the ability to target ads has long been more advanced.
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As a consequence, the breezy tone and ebullient moments -- which began with a promising song-and-dance number about strides in diversity within the TV industry, cheekily titled "We solved it" -- gave way to lethargy and clunky ones.
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In 2019, Amobee directed its pitch at shaking up the TV industry, launching a marketplace that pulls in data from Lotame, Oracle Data Cloud, and Inscape to create 6,000 audiences that advertisers can pick from to target ads.
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The pay TV industry raised concerns over copyright, content licensing and privacy issues and made a counterproposal in June, offering to commit to creating its own apps to allow consumers to watch programs without needing to lease a box.
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Broadly speaking, the provision applies stricter rules for how digital video companies report views while also holding the TV industry responsible for making sure all of their ads are watched, not just some ads within a certain time block.
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The GoFundMe page says Dawn, who's now 79, needs to be moved to a smaller assisted living home that caters specifically to people in the film/TV industry, but the facility won't accept her because she's $180k in debt.
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NEW YORK, Oct 1503 (Reuters) - AT&T Inc's third-quarter video losses sent pay-TV industry shares down on Thursday after Wall Street analysts raised concerns about the continued threat of consumers cancelling their cable and satellite television subscriptions.
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The DOJ maintained the merger would reduce competition in the pay-TV industry, citing concerns that AT&T, owner of satellite television provider DirecTV, could charge rival distributors more for Time Warner content and spur higher prices for consumers.
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The TV industry will keep a close eye on the performance of "Roseanne" as it moves deeper into the season: Will there be a drop in viewership, or will all the recent media attention keep the ratings relatively high?
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The TV industry has been waiting — and waiting — for big, deep-pocketed tech giants like Apple and Amazon to start competing with the likes of Comcast and Time Warner Cable by selling their own "over the top" bundles of TV channels.
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U.S. cable provider and CNBC parent Comcast on Tuesday launched a program to further develop an advertising strategy that better targets audiences, as the TV industry looks to lure more advertisers away from digital players like Facebook and Alphabet's Google.
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Lee, who was awarded an honorary Oscar in November, said Hollywood had fallen behind the worlds of music and sports, saying it makes sense businesswise for the movie and TV industry to reflect the racial diversity of the United States.
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The Comcast Cable executive Matt Strauss has had a front-row seat to the seismic shifts upending the pay-TV industry as the head of the 56-year-old company's Xfinity unit, which includes home video, internet, security, and phone services.
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Giordani repeated his call for ProSieben to join Dutch holding company Media For Europe, which the Italian group is creating as a vehicle for the European TV industry to achieve scale together and fend off U.S. streaming giants like Netflix .
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It's not like it's going to completely disappear in the next few years (or even the next decade), but the focus of the TV industry is less and less on the ways that advertisers can make or break the bottom line.
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If you care about the fate of the TV industry, you'll be interested in this package — sometimes referred to on Wall Street as the "loser bundle," because many of the channels in the package aren't included in other TV bundles.
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"It's also the best time in history to be a content creator because it's a market," he added, rattling off the names of big Internet companies and mobile carriers who are joining the TV industry in wanting in on original content.
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A genuine giant of the TV industry in the '90s, he's struggled to adapt to the post-Sopranos world of serialized dramas and antiheroes; with Goliath and a twisty, complicated protagonist played by Thornton, he's making his biggest stab at relevancy in years.
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In other words, the cable/satellite TV universe that has been the backbone of the TV industry is going to see the life gradually siphoned out of it as the shift to streaming — and an influx of revenue heading to that — happens.
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Because you know Google is one of the biggest lobbyists in Washington, just the way the TV industry had that, just the way everyone else ... I think I would argue that you have to sort of answer that question in two parts.
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The move is in line with a growing trend in the TV industry to cut down on actual commercials in favor of so-called branded content and product placement, thus ensuring that the advertising will stay with shows as they are streamed online.
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At the same time, adtech companies are shaking up the $70 billion TV industry with technology that can target and measure ads, as shown by acquisitions like Roku buying Dataxu, AT&T's Xandr acquisition of Clypd and LiveRamp's acquisition of Data Plus Math.
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The Ranch suggests, however, that extra time is one of the big reasons the multi-camera sitcom (the TV industry term for shows filmed primarily on sound stages before live audiences) slowly fell out of favor in the past 15 years or so.
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The software play: Just as mobile hardware companies like LG and Samsung eventually migrated off of their own software platforms to market leaders' like Android and iOS, Roku CEO Anthony Wood argues that the smart TV industry is going through the same evolution.
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TV industry magazine Broadcast reported that King will leave her role as a diversity executive at UK broadcaster Channel 4 after seven years to base herself out of San Francisco, where she will oversee YouTube's diversity strategy across content, marketing, branding and talent.
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" Ms. Scovell, who writes about the sexism she encountered in the TV industry in a coming memoir called "Just the Funny Parts," said she was not calling for Mr. Baldwin to be punished or removed from his role at "Saturday Night Live.
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But we're also seeing accelerated cord cutting (with the pay TV industry losing well over a million subscribers per year at this point) and many individual cable networks losing subscribers at a much faster rate due to skinnier bundles and rising rights costs.
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It has been one of the most pressing questions in the TV industry: Will the Fox TV chiefs Dana Walden and Gary Newman head to Disney, or will they strike out on their own when their contracts expire in a couple of months?
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But it's also a cautionary tale for a TV industry that's increasingly enamored of hiring experts from the world of film: These might be two similar forms of media, but they're different enough that one can't simply move between them at will.
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Shonda Rhimes's departure from ABC to produce new shows for Netflix could not have come at a better time to intensify the fears that have been roiling the TV industry for the past several years and that have reached a fever pitch this summer.
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Not only are Google Assistant and Alexa control everywhere, but Apple's embracing the TV industry for the first time: Vizio and LG TVs will support AirPlay 2 and HomeKit, while Samsung TVs will get an iTunes Movies & TV app, as well as AirPlay 2 support.
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Apple's senior vice president was in the hot seat at Recode's Code Media event this evening, speaking mostly about Apple's upcoming Planet of the Apps reality TV show, but also talking about "fake news," ads, and the state of the TV industry in general.
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There are actionable ways in which the film and TV industry can be pressured into change by its audience, in terms of supporting more diverse voices and work produced by companies that are conscious of both preventing misconduct and protecting those who report it.
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"We call on all production companies and streaming platforms to work together to create a healthy environment for the movie and TV industry, and boost its prosperous development," iQiyi, Alibaba-backed Youku, Tencent's video streaming service and six production firms said in a statement.
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When Master of None creators Alan Yang and Aziz Ansari won their first Emmy Award for Comedy Writing on Sunday, Yang took the stage and reminded everyone that "diversity" isn't just a buzzword, but a real goal worth fighting for within the TV industry.
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Sports shows will help Amazon reach a broader demographic and potentially sell more sports merchandise, too, said Alan Wolk, analyst for TV industry publication TV EV. Amazon and Facebook Inc could potentially enter the bidding when the next English Premier League rights deal is announced.
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"Nanci [Ryder] said, 'People in power, you have a position and responsibility to change the industry,' and I thought, 'She's right,' " Murphy tells THR, referring to a speech given by Ryder in which she called for greater non-white-male representation throughout the TV industry.
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A year ago, AT&T unveiled a bold plan to build a technology and targeting platform, Xandr, that promised to reinvent the $70 billion TV industry through its $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner and reported $1.6 billion purchase of ad-tech firm AppNexus.
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It's an impressive figure, certainly, but one that also requires a "Star Wars" scroll-worth of disclaimers, qualifiers and questions -- several of them immediately posed by journalists and TV industry rivals, who have been frustrated by the streaming giant's unwillingness to divulge such information.
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Now, with smartphone sales booming and India preparing for nationwide 25.3G Internet access, India's film and TV industry hopes the ease of tapping your phone for the latest release will generate profits at last, overcoming the problems of woefully few cinemas and rampant piracy.
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And Cook has said some of this before: Apple has been arguing for years that the conventional TV industry was in decline and that consumers would tire of paying for the bundles of channels sold by traditional pay TV distributors like Comcast and Charter.
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The pair appeared as part of an HBO panel at the festival and talked to the audience about some of the challenges faced by actors of color in the UK. In January, "Luther" star Idris Elba complained about the lack of diversity in the British TV industry.
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Young, who also provided the voice of cartoon characters including Disney's Scrooge McDuck, died from natural causes this week at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital, a Los Angeles retirement facility for those in the movie and TV industry, according to his manager, Gene Yusem.
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As usual, it's easy to see the broad outlines of the show already: tons of new devices that support Google Assistant and Alexa, a flood of nonsense 5G news, and the TV industry trying to make people care about 8K after finally hitting mass adoption of 4K.
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She dives into her struggles with things that most women are all too familiar with: Society's idea of physical beauty, sexism in the workforce (the TV industry in her case), and being called "bossy" simply because you're not the submissive woman the society wants you to be.
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In that case it may be that their quest to unseat the actual tastemakers of this era — the likes of Netflix and HBO, which rebuilt the TV industry from the ground up — is quixotic and doomed to failure (or at least a period of ignominious limbo).
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There's nothing more frustrating than seeing an industry where lots of good ideas are coming from outside and they're all being squashed by the incumbents — we've seen this happen in the music industry and the PC industry, and we're still seeing it in the TV industry.
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Mr. O'Reilly's dismissal amounts to an enormous shift in cable news, and the TV industry was ablaze with talk late last week whether the move has the potential to open up a cable news war that for more than a decade has been dominated by Fox News.
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The Hunger Games is shot through with the knowledge of somebody who used to work in the TV industry, and Collins is always careful to ground the story Katniss is trying to sell within the larger stories and strategies that everybody around her is plugging away at.
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The first season of UnREAL, Lifetime's buzzy drama centered on the fictional Bachelor-esque reality show Everlasting, took an incisive look at the relationship between gender and power structures in the TV industry while also providing a healthy dose of heightened melodrama that the network's built its name on.
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" One of the night's more touching moments celebrated a pioneering woman in the TV industry and a CBS hero: The In Memoriam segment ended with Mary Tyler Moore, who died in January at 80, turning off the lights in the fictional newsroom of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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But it's likely he will do what he did at Jaunt, which was ink deals with content providers in the music, movie and TV industry to provide content for VR. Broock was behind getting Sir Paul McCartney to belt "Live and Let Die" for Jaunt, which makes 360-degree VR cameras.
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Enlisting an Oscar-nominated, movie-star megalodon like Pitt—along with his production company, Plan B, which had recently won its second Best Picture Oscar with *12 Years a Slave—*was a sign that Netflix wanted to invade the movie industry the same way it had overrun the TV industry.
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Years later, Apple is still trying to break into the TV industry with its biggest push yet: a streaming service expected to be announced at the company's upcoming "It's show time" event on March 25th, complete with original Apple-produced TV shows and movies that will be exclusive to the service.
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Read more: AT&T is losing TV subscribers faster than its rivals, but cord-cutting is hitting the entire pay-TV industry hardSling TV, which posted meager growth this year, is expected to add fewer subscribers each year than the year before, through 2022, according to the Credit Suisse report.
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Read more: The TV industry talks a big game about reinventing how advertising works but struggles to change the way business has been done for yearsAri Lewine, TripleLift's cofounder and chief strategy officer, said Shields' team would build ad products similar to the ones he sold at Fox Networks Group.
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Vice CEO Shane Smith and Creative Director Spike Jonze also appeared onstage, explaining why their company is going to unseat the biggest media players online and on TV. Industry insiders, journalists and others were in attendance, chatting up one another about what they expected to learn and what they actually learned.
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Murdoch is the last of the media moguls who rose to power in the latter part of the last century, part of a colorful cohort that includes Sumner Redstone, John Malone and Barry Diller, merciless executives who forged the TV industry as cable and satellite became the dominant platform for entertainment.
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The industry figures I talked to while researching this article all agreed that if the TV industry revolved entirely around cable and broadcast television, it would have already reached a peak and be entering a gentle descent, as some networks exited the scripted space while others stepped back their production.
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"Given the FCC's announcement that 957 stations will be involuntarily changing channels and that 30 more will be voluntarily moving to a VHF channel in return for an auction payment, the TV industry and its viewers are about to see a level of technical disruption that may be unprecedented," the lawyers wrote.
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Ned's shocking beheading transformed the entire TV industry, which soon became addicted to big moments and reveals, sometimes effectively (as with Game of Thrones' own blood-drenched Red Wedding a few seasons later) and sometimes less so (as when House of Cards' Frank Underwood pushed a main character in front of a train).
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Other indicators of Chinese TV industry growth include the December 2017 formation of the Chinese TV Drama Export Alliance, a conglomeration of Chinese entertainment studios aimed at growing the presence of the Chinese TV productions worldwide, as well as increasing Chinese-language content being acquired by popular internet video-streaming companies such as Netflix.
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So-called "whitewashing" has become a contentious issue in the movie and TV industry, highlighted by the casting of Emma Stone as a character of Hawaiian and Asian heritage in the 2015 film "Aloha," and the choice of white British actor Charlie Hunnam to play a Mexican-American drug lord in an upcoming Hollywood movie.
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But I never come away from a list of Golden Globes TV nominations thinking that it recognizes even close to the best of what was on TV in last year, not in the way that the Emmys at least tell me which shows people in the TV industry would most like to be working on.
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Since then, the Vermont-hailing artist has had no problem finding success in the TV industry, leading to gigs on Freeform family drama The Fosters and NBC's emotional smash This Is Us—not to mention Transparent's third season, for which Howard directed two episodes and acted as consulting producer on the season's first four installments.
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Ratings for the British "Circle" have been modest (24 million viewers on average), but the series has been catnip among 16-to-34-year-olds: The first season was Channel 4's "youngest profiling" show in six years, according to the British TV industry magazine Broadcast, drawing half its viewers from that sought-after demographic.
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Leading up to the announcement of the Golden Globe and Oscar nominations, envelopes of DVDs marked "for your consideration" are stacked high on the desks of people in the film and TV industry, and practically every ad in every industry publication encourages readers to take a look at this or that lesser-known venture.
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At least 55 original scripted programs aired in 224, the latest record-breaking figure for the TV industry, according to data released Friday by the cable network FX. That was more than the 221 shows that broadcast in 210, more than the 288 in 2012 and far more than the 182 from 15 years ago.
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And back when it was the predominant way of doing things, it left a vague sense in the American TV industry that the first season of a show, at least, should concentrate on underlining the show's premise, setting up the characters, and making sure viewers are absolutely sure they know what the story is about.
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I'll keep the list, for now, to just five, in alphabetical order: Four of these shows — all except for The Handmaid's Tale, which hadn't debuted yet — performed admirably with last fall's industry prizes, especially among the Screen Actors Guild and Producers Guild, which indicates people in the TV industry are at least watching them.
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Per eMarketer, more Americans use Roku's connected TV device than any other similar device, like Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV or Apple TV. Why it matters: Just as mobile hardware companies like LG and Samsung eventually migrated off of their own software platforms to market leaders' like Android and iOS, the smart TV industry is going through the same evolution.
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Instead, ten years on, looking at the same super-successful black rectangle, investors, analysts, and tech pundits insist Apple, the most valuable company on the planet, needs a massively disruptive invention; a car, or iTunes-scale revolution in the TV industry, largely, maybe, because it is a little boring to opine about that rectangle every year.
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But I never come away from a list of Golden Globes TV nominations thinking that it recognizes even close to the best of what was on TV in the last year, not in the way that the Emmys, at least, tell me which shows people in the TV industry would most like to be working on.
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The concept of apps simply didn't exist in 2008, and definitely not the explosion of video apps that are now the mainstay of every phone, tablet, and streaming box like the Apple TV. "The future of TV is apps," is literally Apple's marketing slogan for the Apple TV. And the TV industry is betting big on apps instead of boxes.
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The company also plans to strengthen its smart TV business under a strategy centered around larger-screen products, though Leshi chief executive Liang Jun said the TV industry in China in the first half of 2017 saw the worst sales declines in nearly a decade due to rising panel costs, with sales down around 20 percent during the May holiday season.
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As I wrote earlier this year, the TV industry has increasingly been launching its best programs in January and April, leaving the fall TV season a bit of a wasteland — even though it's still technically the time of year when the most new shows debut, thanks to the five major broadcast networks debuting most of their series in the September-to-October corridor.
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But if we look at general trends for television, it's not hard to imagine the TV industry splitting apart in much the same way as the film industry — with "big studios" (in this case networks) primarily focused on flashy, big-budget productions and smaller indie distributors picking up the sorts of projects that used to be the networks' bread and butter.
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The last couple of years have seen the emergence of the internet TV bundle with services like Sling TV and PlayStation Vue, and in the last few months Hulu, YouTube, and DirecTV have all joined the fray with internet-based channel packages, which the TV industry refers to "OTT" for "over the top," in that they bypass the traditional cable box.
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An ownership stake in a Web video operation could help the company launch and operate new digital services aimed at replacing some of the pay TV revenue that's at risk from cord-cutters and people who never sign up for pay TV. Industry sources speculate that a Disney investment in BAM Tech would include an option to eventually buy a controlling stake in the company.
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That might be seen as a drop in the bucket compared to larger and more carbon-intensive industries—one recent United Nations estimate said worldwide air travel produced 900 million tons of C02 in 2018—but critics say that the film and TV industry, which is full of outspoken progressives concerned about climate change, are producing an unacceptable amount of waste that doesn't jibe with the perception of the business.
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It's interesting that the written word and publishing, which we're currently focused on though not limited to, is kind of the last to be ... There's a time when it was going to be the death of the music industry and there was a time ... It was never, as I recall, the death of the TV industry, but there's a time when reality TV dominated and that's what we kind of thought the future was.
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"Fauda" is the latest gritty, naturalistic thriller turned out by the Israeli TV industry, a major supplier of ideas and concepts for American TV. (Other examples, like "Hostages" and the wonderful "Prisoners of War," the model for "Homeland," can be streamed from Netflix and Hulu.) Its premise is simple: a Palestinian terrorist, thought to be dead, emerges from hiding to attend a relative's wedding and an Israeli team — led by the agent who thought he had killed the terrorist years before — is sent to kill him again.
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But in the context of several recent developments that otherwise seem unrelated — A&E similarly abandoning the scripted market after Bates Motel wrapped up earlier this year; MTV's cancellation of its promising (but low-rated) freshman drama Sweet/Vicious; Netflix canceling The Get Down after its first season (the streaming service's first post-season one cancellation ever) and Sense2000 after its second — a natural question has started to rocket around the TV industry: Is Peak TV, the era of so much TV you can't even keep up with it, over?
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