They call it “Peak TV.” I call it “broken sewer television.” Unfortunately, there were only a few sewer pipe breaks last year. Throughout 2022, its sewers delivered approximately 2,264 television programs to American homes. Last year, that number fell by 480 to 1,784.
extreme left hollywood reporter, To some extent, blame It's a writers' and actors' strike, but that doesn't mean much. The writers' strike he started in May 2023. The actor's strike began in July 2023. Indeed, television is more immediate than movies. This means that TV shows go from start to air instantly. However, it is highly doubtful that the strike, which began in mid-2023, would have significantly affected the 2023 television season. The aftereffects of the strike will probably be even more severe this year.
The main reason for this 21% reduction is that studios are looking to cut costs. The television industry is in deep crisis for three reasons…
First, affirmative action in cable/satellite TV is disappearing. At one time, about 100 million American households subscribed to cable or satellite packages. This means 100 million people paid for dozens of channels and hundreds of shows they never watched. But whether you watched it or not, the studios were still making tens of billions of dollars just because the channels and shows were part of the cable he package. Now this number is approaching 50 million, and the decline in income is significant. And that's not being made up for in the streaming business.
Second, Americans are canceling cable and moving to streaming. Sadly, for the studio, this is a disaster. Unlike socialist cable, where everyone pays for every channel, streaming is performance-based. To watch shows from Netflix, Disney, Paramount, and more, simply subscribe to the streamer. These streaming services other than Netflix are losing billions of dollars, which makes me…
Third, television today sucks.we came out of the gold rush The Sopranos, Longmire, Lost, The Wire, The Shield, 24, Breaking Bad, The Americans, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, Deadwood, Rome, Battlestar Galactica (2004), etc., to a garbage fire of gratuitous gay sex in a sea of woke virtue signals, simple characters, lectures, scoldings, and sexlessness.
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No one sees this nonsense. Believe me, a population of 335 million people doesn't need 2,264 TV shows. We managed to survive a few hundred shows as the population approached 200 million.
Approximately 80% of these 1,784 programs must have viewership ratings in the low thousands, if not lower. And who are they making these shows for? This is not the America I grew up in. There, nothing excites us more than the next new thing.We are a nation that still goes to and sees Rolling Stones concerts. Star Trek, Law and Order, CSI, NCIS, fast and furious 10and james bond 28. Even the most blockbuster shows seem to be spin-offs of decades-old series such as: wendy and Star Wars stuff.
Americans don't want “What's Next.” They seek the comfort of nostalgia and sameness. Did you know that Indiana Jones at 80 years old proves that we all stay young forever?
Because Hollywood blew it, this talentless, horrible, hateful industry is wasting billions of dollars on hundreds of TV shows that no one will watch. It's all about sticking one piece of trash together. There was a time when the three networks each produced about 40 programs and benefited from advertising revenue based on viewership. Television programs were produced for the general public and were viewed by tens of millions of ordinary people.
If we knew what the public wanted, we wouldn't need to produce 2,246 shows a year. But today's industry has no idea what it's doing, so it's not a golden age, it's a broken sewer age. But this is what happens when you allow entertainment companies to be infested with leftists who are obsessed with other things than telling great stories.
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