Shonda v. Ryan: Who's Winning at Netflix?
ESG analyzes head-to-head the two richest deals in TV and their return on investment
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If any two moves symbolized the impending doom of traditional studios, it had to be Netflix signing two huge showrunner megadeals in 2017 and 2018. The streaming wars…