Series Business
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Sell, Stream or Die: Ellison’s Brutal Cable Choices as Bonta Closes in
Insiders on which Paramount/WBD brands have the most value and the players emerging to ‘milk them until the end’
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TV Is Failing Young Men and Boys. Here’s What They Actually Want
Teens and tweens revealed they like superheroes, yes, but also friendship, vulnerability and lives that look like their own
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Fixing TV: Shawn Ryan, Damon Lindelof on How They’d Change Development
I survey dozens of smart scribes for solutions to ‘death by a thousand paper cuts.’ And OMG, did someone really say bring back mini-rooms? Yes, yes they did
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WME’s Top Digital Exec: AI’s Here. Now Let’s Cash In (Carefully)
Chris Jacquemin on the chance to give creators ‘superpowers’ and big paydays
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Exec Coach: The New Industry Must-Have (and Career Off-Ramp)
With bosses too stressed to mentor, more Hollywood pros are seeking (and giving) leadership advice. You’ll just have to pay up
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CBS Ex-Pres on Life After the Big Job: ‘You Don’t Get to Choose Your Own Exit’
Kelly Kahl opens up about his journey that led him to produce a doc about the Milwaukee Brewers’ 1982 World Series, a childhood obsession
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Development Execs in Development Hell Too
A viral post about the creation of the new Netflix Bear Grylls reality series reveals industry agita about recognition and future job prospects
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The 3-Letter Deal TV Writers Love/Hate
OWAs were used on Netflix’s ‘The Perfect Couple’ second season and ‘a good part of the business,’ says one agent. How to make them work for you
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SCOOP: The First Shows Where Writers Scored Streaming Bonuses
Yes, ‘Bridgerton’ is one, but others may surprise as I analyze the post-strike wins, what it means for scribes and the unusual benefit of a smaller streamer
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CW’s Scripted Death is Writer Hell
I talk to Greg Berlanti, Julie Plec and Mark Pedowitz about the burst pipeline under new owner Nexstar: ‘There was nothing I didn’t learn there’
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Gen Z on ‘Fuck You-ness’, ‘Productive Rudeness’, Learning Swagger (and More)
Graduating straight into Covid WFH, 20 agents, publicists, writers and (alas) a barista share four hard truths about making Hollywood careers work
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Co-Pros, Sales, Formats: ‘Japan Is Now the Cool Place You Want to Be’
Int’l execs tell me why the land of the rising sun is a new white-hot market (sorry, Korea, make room) and how to get the deals you need done there
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CBS Pres Amy Reisenbach: How We Pick What to Buy (+ Prequels, Sequels & IP)
Amy Reisenbach takes me inside her winning strategy, setbacks (like Max snagging the next ‘Big Bang’ show) and the mood as the Paramount-Skydance deal looms
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Salary Confessions: A Gen Z Creative Exec’s Stark Warning for Gen X
An $80k-a-year indie studio worker, whose peers share all pay data, reveals the consequences of his age group’s seething resentments hidden at work
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The New ‘Blinking Yellow Light’ Hell of TV Development
Budget gums the process earlier than ever as writers tell me how to fight for the ‘sexiest version of the script’ and what to expect
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Art of the Virtual Pitch: Buyer, Seller Secrets for Nailing It in the Zoom Room
Writer despair as execs ‘toggle to other screens’ and bigwigs score IRL sit-downs
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Psst! Your Fave U.S. Game Show is Probably Shot in Ireland
Forget #StayinLA as Fox turns a south-of-Dublin area into a ‘conveyer belt’ and the country sets an unprecedented incentive
Series Business’ Elaine Low, Lesley Goldberg and Manori Ravindran report on the TV industry’s big names and bigger shifts — tracking the deals and decisions redefining a market.