Author: Joy Press / Source: HWD
In August 2015, FX C.E.O. John Landgraf forged a reputation as a TV sage when he sat before journalists at the Television Critics Association summer press tour and told them that the industry had reached “Peak TV”—an overload in original programming, one that would inevitably lead to a decline as the bubble eventually burst.
Three years later, he returned to the same audience to announce that his earlier prediction had been off-base. Scripted TV has not peaked; in fact, he said, “we are going to see a continued profusion in content,” with streamers pumping ever more shows into the universe alongside cable and broadcast networks. His notion that there was “too much TV” had been too narrow; the real problem, according to Landgraf now, is that “there’s too much story! There’s too much narrative.”
“We respect how increasingly difficult it is to keep up with the insane volume of new and returning series,” Landgraf said. “The number of new series I’ve seen announced just this week alone makes me suspect the golden age of television has now become the gilded age of television.”
Landgraf counted 319 scripted shows released in the U.S. this year alone, up 5 percent from this time last year. Streaming programming alone is up 46 percent. He said that this…
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