Series Business
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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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TV in 3: Amazon Raids Netflix Again; ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ Nabs Bosses
Plus: Netflix starts co-financing AMC originals; Peacock’s price hike is all in the timing
Latest Series Business stories
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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
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Bill Lawrence: How I Turned a Slump Into a TV Hot Streak
The ‘Rooster’ creator on his optimism era — even about Paramount-Warners — plus a scoop on Netflix’s MLB Opening Day lineup
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‘Show Wall St. the Blood’: A Biz Affairs Exec on the Brutal Paramount-Warners Math Ahead
Veteran Ken Basin predicts dealmaking shakeups and, of course, layoffs
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TV in 3: Where’s Jeff Shell?; The New Showrunner Arms Race
Plus: ‘Wisecrack’ pod scoop out of Universal
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Int’l Brief: The Banijay Behemoth, Europe Tests Paramount-WBD, ‘SNL’ vs. London
Yes, mega-mergers are a very messy business everywhere
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10 Burning Qs: Paramount–Warner Bros. — What Survives, and Who
‘It’s going to be worse than you think,’ says one insider
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The Disappearing Ladder: Gen Z Inherits the Collapse
As consolidation reshapes jobs from the top down, Hollywood’s youngest workers are rebuilding from the bottom up
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TV in 3: Warners’ ‘Tone-Deaf’ Town Hall; Falchuk on ‘Famous Last Words’
Fallout and leadership fails roil the studio. Plus: Do actors really need GoFundMe pleas?
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Org Chart From Hell: ‘Too Many Tentacles for One Octopus’
A Paramount-WBD merger would mean 20 chiefs, two streaming platforms, one shrinking C-suite — and an executive bloodletting
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A ‘Top Model’ Reckoning Goes No. 1 on Netflix. Why?
The producer of the smash docuseries tells me how it came together — plus a scoop on what really led to the judges’ firing
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TV in 3: Netflix Adult Animation Spree, WGA Disarray
I look at the streamer’s new straight-to-series buys and strategy
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Tubi’s Gen Z Grab in the U.K. Heats Up
SCOOP: Its Creators program heads to Britain as its GM explains strategy — and the HBO Max threat
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The Three Budget Buckets Running TV in 2026
A quiet financial reset now determines who gets an order and who gets cut
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.