There's another version of the story on MacRumors: http://www.macrumors.com/2017/01/12/apple-original-tv-shows-end-of-2017/ http://www.macrumors.com/2017/01/12

There's another version of the story on MacRumors: http://www.macrumors.com/2017/01/12/apple-original-tv-shows-end-of-2017/ http://www.macrumors.com/2017/01/12/apple-original-tv-shows-... There, in terms of just what they're considering, they note "Apple executives have told Hollywood that the new original content will launch by the end of 2017, according to the new report. In terms of specific genres, HBO's Westworld and Netflix's Stranger Things were both used as comparisons for what Apple is aiming to produce on Apple Music." Personally, I'm encouraged to see this, with the same caveat as newscracker raises - we're already in a fragmented media landscape, and this will only add to that syndrome. However, it seems inescapable, for now, with broadcasters remaining sufficiently intransigent for Apple's plans for a TV bundle suitable for cord-cutters to have been scuppered. Producing their own material gives them the same prime benefit as Netflix and HBO enjoy: full control over how broadly it's available, which in Apple's case, I'd fully expect to be uniformly global. Perhaps we might yet see more big-budget sci-fi on TV - ah, would that Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep" could finally see such treatment!