Now that TV is slowing down, AmyTVGal sorts through the wreckage of Peak TV to uncover 4 key lessons for the industry moving forward:
staring Toni Collette and Merritt Weaver, broke through because they were good. Stars aren’t everything; the script is still king.? It was a Spectrum Original available to only those who have Spectrum as their cable provider. According to the Spectrum website, it’s available in 41 states … but not in all cities in those states. So even if you were dying to find out what was up with Paul and Jamie Buchman if you lived in, say, Illinois, you were out of luck. Accessibility matters.
What we are seeing—now that the TV cupboards are starting to be bare—are programs that were once on a niche platform moving to more mainstream platforms.30 years after its premiere, ran for two seasons on YouTube Premium. Now it will move to Netflix, which has picked up the streaming rights for the first two seasons and will debut the upcoming third season.
To me this is the saddest part of what occurred during Peak TV. Yes some of the reboots have been fantastic., which ran three seasons on Netflix before moving to Pop TV, is the perfect example of all the good that can come from putting a modern twist on a television classic. But most of the revivals that bring back the original cast actually diminish the original series.
Who knows what TV will look like a year from now? We can all only hope that brighter days are ahead. TV has provided a much-needed escape and a respite for so many during these troubled times. Just as the pandemic has caused many of us to take stock of our lives and focus in on what’s important, perhaps the television industry can take this time to assess the current, clogged television landscape and forge a new, clearer path forward.
Amy Amatangelo, the TV Gal®, is a Boston-based freelance writer, a member of the Television Critics Association and the Assistant TV Editor for. She wasn’t allowed to watch much TV as a child and now her parents have to live with this as her career. You can follow her on
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