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Future of Paramount+ among merger talks

It's fair to say American-produced shows going forward will have to conform to Trump's American Viewpoint(TM), which Star Trek really doesn't fit into so perhaps it going on hiatus for awhile is better than what it might become.

It's (usually) not quite as blatant as Kimmel or The View (or even South Park).

There are no regulations on streaming content.
 
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Upside Down Pictures will also develop television projects for Paramount that focus on the “eight-to-10 episode seasons” rather than classic network shows for CBS. “I get fatigued watching 20-episode seasons,” Matt Duffer said. “We didn’t grow up interested in any of that. We only watched movies. That’s the weird thing that we ended up in TV, because we had almost zero interest in television.”

Instead, they plan on making event series akin to “Stranger Things.” “If TV shows come out every year, it’s diminishing return,” Matt Duffer said. “I like the buildup.”
 
Well there is somebody I'm the opposite of! I usually feel more fatigue watching a modern 10 episode season than the older 20-26 episode seasons.

I don't like the artificial buildup he's talking about either. Unless it's a show I really like, I lose interest if I have to wait a few years. I usually still end up watching it eventually, but it's often after I finish whatever other show I'm rewatching.
 
"If TV shows come out every year, it's diminishing return" is an absolutely bonkers thing for someone to say about a television series. The whole fucking point of television is to have a new season come out every year. But, given the Duffers admit they weren't TV kids growing up, it all makes sense that they don't understand how TV works.

I miss when movies were movies and TV was TV. In melding everything together, nothing feels distinct or special any longer. Shows lose momentum with multi-year hiatus periods. It's not a sustainable method of production, and the collapsing streaming bubble should be a pretty damn good indicator of that.
 
Shows lose momentum with multi-year hiatus periods. It's not a sustainable method of production, and the collapsing streaming bubble should be a pretty damn good indicator of that.

It started with cable (It wasn't uncommon for The Sopranos to go TWO YEARS between seasons).
 
Less than a week on the job and Bari Weiss has sent out a memo to CBS news employees asking them to justify their positions at CBS.
That’s actually not so unusual—my wife has had to do it more than once (companies buying another, new management). Don’t know if it’s a common practice in media companies.
 
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