An interesting article on streaming video's effect on Hollywood's petit bourgeoisie. Show produced for streaming video don't pay residuals, network series have fewer and fewer episodes per season and networks are showing fewer re-runs.
Last year there were 487 scripted series. Is that possible? And if it is possible, is it necessary?
"This year alone", the article reports, "Netflix is launching 80 original movies and will have 700—no, that’s not an extra zero—original shows on its service."
If there are seven hundred, they can't be THAT original.
Maybe the thousands of film majors graduating every year aren't insane after all. And here I was calling for half hour TV shows so they could have twice as many. I guess it would mean we could WATCH twice as many which would be a good thing under the circumstances. There are a lot of shows I could force myself to watch if only they were shorter.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90250828/the-death-of-hollywoods-middle-class
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