Series Business
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TV in 3: Could YouTube Steal the Emmys?; Connor Storrie’s Loophole
Plus: Knicks ratings fever is blazing
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British TV’s YouTube Trap Is Coming for Hollywood
The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 are growing on the top streamer. But the more they succeed, the less leverage they have
Latest Series Business stories
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Murdoch’s U.K. Fox News Dream Fizzles
Rupert yanks TalkTV — his wannabe Brit counterpart — off linear, while right-wing rival, Paul Marshall, keeps spending
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Murdoch’s U.K. Fox News Dream Fizzles
Rupert yanks TalkTV — his wannabe Brit counterpart — off linear, while right-wing rival, Paul Marshall, keeps spending
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IATSE vs. Studios: Fear, Smoke and Possible Fire
The union’s Mike Miller tells me, ‘Nobody’s looking to win the lottery. We’re looking to be treated fairly’
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Netflix Exec: ‘We’ve Now Talked to Every League, Every Athlete, Every Team’
My chat with Gabe Spitzer, Netflix’s head of nonfiction sports, at the Netflix Slam tennis event reveals the streamer’s sports ambitions keep growing
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Teamsters Boss Lindsay Dougherty: One-on-One
Who’ll stop strike three? Of the ‘evil empire’ AMPTP, ‘none of them like each other, so it’s hard to get anything done.’ Plus: International TV upfront preview
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‘Strike Ready’: A Two-Front Labor Fight in Two Weeks
IATSE negotiations are about to start, followed by the U.K.’s own actors’ Equity guild
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‘Silk: Spider Society’ Writers Room ‘Paused’ at Amazon
I’m told Nicolas Cage is circling ‘Spider-Man Noir’ as that project gains steam; WGA had threatened a lawsuit after the streamer kept writers rooms on ice post-strike
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John Landgraf: One-on-One
The FX boss on the buying market now, prestige TV’s ceiling, and if he would encourage his sons to go into TV: ‘I don’t know that I would’
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John Landgraf: One-on-One
The FX boss on the buying market now, prestige TV’s ceiling, and if he would encourage his sons to go into TV: ‘I don’t know that I would’
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John Landgraf: One-on-One
The FX boss on the buying market now, prestige TV’s ceiling, and if he would encourage his sons to go into TV: ‘I don’t know that I would’
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Where The TV Jobs Are Now (And Not)
Survive ’til ‘25 is the new mantra as cuts keep coming. We identify what’s growing, opportunity, and what you’re likely not considering
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How Netflix’s $5B WWE Deal Could Body-Slam Reality’s Slump
Unscripted producers, execs see hope in the streamer’s huge move into live feud-filled ‘sports entertainment’ as linear is ‘depreciating … like Radio Shack’
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What the TV Market is Telling Us
Sources say the pitching slump should pick up, hitting a peak in February into March as budgets get squeezed and buyers play safe
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So Where Are We Exactly on AI and Streaming Residuals?
Two must-listen pods: one with SAG neg comm members, another with Fran Drescher, will give you some clarity in a sea of confusion
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As Actors Strike Ends, Here’s What We Know About the New Contract
The negotiating committee jubilantly sheds ‘very tired tears’
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.