Series Business
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TV in 3: Inside Quinta Brunson’s WB Defection — and Coogler’s Jump to Netflix
I got the tick-tock on her new Disney deal, and what led Ryan Coogler to leave the Mouse House. Plus, what to know about the studio shakeups at Uni, Disney
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Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox-Roku Surprise — and Who Survives the Shakeup
A ‘Trojan horse’ move to win the ad wars without spending like Netflix, and where internal politics is part of the game
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Private Thoughts of an Anonymous High-Level Development Exec
What’s sending ‘shockwaves’ through town, the new budget norm, and the comedy ‘conundrum’: ‘If there’s one element that scares the networks away . . .’
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‘Appalling,’ ‘Untenable’: Inside the U.K.’s Diversity Disaster
Backlash as a struggling market, U.S. right-wing influence, put TV’s DEI jobs under pressure
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TV Gets Chopped in the Content Blender
After a dizzying Upfronts week in New York, I take stock of what the blurred lines between TV, movies and even Twitch streams means for the near future
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Upfronts Reveal TV’s Future: Sports, Live, Less Scripted
Plus: Disney global ad sales chief Rita Ferro on what’s selling this year — and why they can fend off Amazon and Netflix
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Israel-Gaza Engulfs Eurovision
Europe’s weird singing competition struggles with 2024 reality: War, boos, budgets and boycotts
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TV Writers’ New Strategy, Struggle: ‘Everyone is Looking for Work’
One-third of an agent’s roster is unemployed as the staffing ladder returns, studios want ‘experience,’ and those who’ve lived through downturns offer advice
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‘Great for the Refugee Quota!’ BBC Doc Accusation Rocks the U.K.
‘They took my footage and never paid me. And won every award’: A migrant’s revelation raises new questions about onscreen diversity
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5 TV Agents on the State of the Industry
Pilot season RIP, even Amazon and Apple are cutting costs, and there’s ‘less being bought, less being made, less rooms, less staff.’ But hope is unsinkable
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5 TV Agents Reveal What’s Selling Now
‘Prestige-urals’ are hot; ‘The Bear’-like shows, not. A breakdown of what Netflix, Disney+, Hulu,, Amazon, Max and HBO are buying
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A Very British TV Tempest Rocks the International Market
As MipTV exits Cannes and throws down at London’s Savoy, the global industry may be forced to take sides
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Jobs One Year After the Bloodbath: Hope & Pain
‘Knowing somebody, sending your resume, getting an interview . . . it doesn’t work like that anymore.’ Still, one headhunter expects a ‘renaissance in ’25 or ’26’
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Private Thoughts of an Anonymous TV Studio Production Exec
AI and jobs, locations leaving L.A., and the IATSE ‘Fraturday’ problem: ‘The percentage increase of costs is the highest it’s ever been’
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Death of ‘Craft’: U.K. Actors vs. Streaming Age
A shock resignation of a legendary acting teacher leads to a crisis in how to train young performers for Hollywood and beyond
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TV Production Decline: ‘A Darwin Sort of Event’
FilmLA releases new data to me as cast/crew hiring declines outpace series cutbacks as shorter seasons, offshoring hit jobs hard
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.