Series Business
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Disney’s Battle for YouTube’s Youngest Viewers Is Just Beginning
Ayo Davis’ division is minting stars, rebooting classic IP (‘edgy’ Tinker Bell?) and forging new franchises to win Gen Alpha
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DGA v. WGA: Directors Score Pilot Credit, Writers Cry ‘Power Grab’
Tensions between the guilds mount over creative clout: ‘Motherfuckers, I helped make this show for you’
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TV in 3: CBS’ Late-Night Surrender; Scoop: Kennedy Center Producers Bolt
Sources say the network is ‘considering’ even more cost-effective programming
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David E. Kelley at 70: Still Chasing the ‘Scream Inside’
On 40 years in TV, Michelle Pfeiffer and his warning that ‘executives are not letting storytellers be storytellers.’ Plus: two new projects revealed
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So You Made a Hit. Now the Real Hustle Starts
Producers behind unscripted winners on avoiding the one-and-done rut
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TV in 3: ‘Pitt’ Casting Firestorm & Reality’s Numbers Slump
Supriya Ganesh’s exit sends fans into code red; April’s Emmy-bait pile-up
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HBO Max Invades Britain — Testing a New Playbook for Global Streaming
Inside WBD’s bet that mass IP can outperform local storytelling as Netflix, Amazon and Disney double down on local hits
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Peter Friedlander Is Remaking Amazon TV. What’s Taking So Long?
‘People are mystified’ six months in about the agenda, as agents grow restless for the streamer to start buying again
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Millennial Careers are Breaking Down: ‘I’m Just Trying to Survive’
Stalled careers, rising costs and the quiet calculation of how long this still works in part two of The Disappearing Ladder
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Netflix Spending Spree: ‘Prestige Envy,’ Cheap Hits — and an Ellison War to Come
The streamer may have lost the battle for WBD. But its new bets reveal a strategy that could box in Paramount
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Why Is Netflix Suddenly Buying So Many Shows?
The streamer may have lost the battle for WBD. But its new bets reveal a strategy that could box in Paramount
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Taylor Frankie Paul: How Disney Signed Off on a Disaster — and The Fallout Begins
I’ve got the details and dollars on ‘The Bachelorette,’ ‘Mormon Wives’ and Disney’s one-woman wrecking ball
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TV in 3: Dana Walden’s Reorg Winners — and Who Got Layered; ‘Pitt’ Politics
I decipher Disney’s latest ‘consolidation of power’; plus, Carol Mendelsohn on her Fox Bible series, ‘The Faithful’
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Who Slayed the ‘Buffy’ Reboot — and Why
I reveal the doomed pilot’s budget, its ‘failure to launch’ and the internal Hulu drama that sank it
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Paramount vs. California: The War for Hollywood Begins
AG Rob Bonta fires the first major shot at the merger as Hollywood’s Teamsters leader sounds the alarm
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TV in 3: Seth MacFarlane-Peacock Open Marriage; a WB Insider’s Vicious Substack
Plus: ‘Baywatch’ bets on influencers
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.