Consumers want to sample new shows and watch old favorites immediately, and they turn to streaming to do it. Who will ultimately be able to give them what they want — Netflix, or the new platforms from old players?
Also, every episode of the “Roseanne” revival made it on this year’s list of top 100 broadcast and cable telecasts. Too bad for ABC that she got all racist on us.
NBC is tops in all measures, thanks to the Super Bowl and Olympics, while Fox News is most-watched in cable.
20th Century Fox TV and its Fox 21 TV Studios subsidiary have dominated Golden Globes, SAG, AFI, Humanitas, WGA, and Critics’ Choice award nominations, and the timing couldn’t be better.
In a memo to staffers, CBS’ acting CEO Joe Ianniello expressed relief that the investigation was over — but “this does not mean that our work is done.”
It’s not just top writers, producers, and performers: Streamers like Netflix are also picking off the linear world’s top executives, like the former ABC Entertainment president.
The TBS and TNT president is now charged with defining what this service will look like, and how its programming will be differentiated from HBO.
After the Charlie Brooker anthology series won two years in a row, it was time for clarity. Also: Megan Amram potentially inspires a change in short form Emmy nominations.
Turn It On podcast: The SAG and Golden Globe nominee also marvels at how he’s been trying to either kill or have sex with Ben Whishaw on camera.
The status quo just isn’t working. Maybe it’s time to let the TV pros do their thing and try to save the Oscar telecast — if it can be done.
Newcomers like “Sharp Objects,” “Homecoming,” “The Kominsky Method,” “A Very English Scandal,” “Pose,” “Bodyguard” and “Escape at Dannemora” hope to become this year’s “Mrs. Maisel”-like success story.
Netflix wants to be your first — or only — stop for TV, and continued access to the hit series ensures that’s still the case.
