Showing 181 - 195 of 229 articles tagged "Peak TV"

• Posted Monday 6/11/18 at 9:19PM EDT

  How Netflix tries to prevent its original shows from getting lost in its avalanche of content

  “These myths that the competition puts out there, and the media fuels, are absurd," says Netflix's vice president of product...

• Posted Monday 6/11/18 at 8:19AM EDT

  Inside Netflix's "binge factory," which has upended television by replacing demographics with "taste clusters"

  According to Josef Adalian's deep dive into Netflix, the streaming service relies on "taste clusters," described as "predicating programming decisions...

• Posted Thursday 6/07/18 at 12:59AM EDT

  TV shows need to quit with the solemn musical sequences: "I’m here to watch a show, not listen to your Spotify favorites"

  "I cannot watch any TV show anymore without having to sit through a music video no one asked for," says...

• Posted Wednesday 6/06/18 at 1:56PM EDT

  The Executioner's Song may become a limited series

  Norman Mailer’s 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is being developed as a potential limited series.

• Posted Monday 6/04/18 at 9:38PM EDT

  Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is spending its final season skewering Peak TV

  Co-creator Robert Carlock explains that the Peak TV mockery is in the tradition of him and Tina Fey targeting show...

• Posted Friday 6/01/18 at 11:47PM EDT

  Does The Americans' series finale signal the end of TV's Golden Age?

  Wednesday's series finale "marks the end of an era," says Matt Brenn.

• Posted Thursday 5/31/18 at 9:13PM EDT

  In the Peak TV era, Emmy voters are being inundated with hundreds of screeners

  As awards marketing consultant Richard Licata explains, “what I fear is happening in this new golden age of TV, with...

• Posted Thursday 5/31/18 at 9:13PM EDT

  Americans are still watching an astounding amount of TV every day

  Viewership hours peaked in the 2009-10 season with Americans watching 8 hours and 55 minutes of TV a day.

• Posted Friday 5/25/18 at 10:33AM EDT

  Here are the Top 10 best-written shows currently on TV

  The Americans, Veep, Game of Thrones, Better Call Saul and Brooklyn Nine-Nine are among the shows whose "writing has lingered...

• Posted Wednesday 5/09/18 at 10:52PM EDT

  British networks BBC, Channel 4 and ITV may partner with NBC Universal on a streaming service to combat Netflix and Amazon

  According to The Guardian, "the early-stage talks, which are also understood to involve NBC Universal, the US TV and film...

• Posted Tuesday 5/08/18 at 9:08PM EDT

  Atlanta, Rick and Morty and Westworld are revolutionizing TV episode descriptions

  Atlanta's episode descriptions are written in the voice of an omniscient hype man, as Clayton Purdom points out.

• Posted Monday 5/07/18 at 10:00PM EDT

  Study: Viewers prefer Netflix originals over HBO, Amazon and Hulu

  Morgan Stanley surveyed 3,100 American viewers, and found that 39% of them believed Netflix had the "best original programming.

• Posted Monday 5/07/18 at 5:09PM EDT

  Netflix boss: "it's not humanly possible anymore" for me to watch everything on my streaming service

  Chief content officer Ted Sarandos admits even he can't watch all the shows on Netflix.

• Posted Friday 5/04/18 at 10:26PM EDT

  TV shows are shooting themselves in the foot with inconsistently long running times

  "When a drama tinkers all season long with episodes that can run from 45 minutes to 75 minutes, it creates...

• Posted Friday 5/04/18 at 7:23PM EDT

  Is Peak TV slowly killing the work of TV critics?

  The number of scripted primetime shows is expected to surpass 500 this year, according to FX boss John Landgraf, who...