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Reality TV is cheap and engaging. The same reason it worked on broadcast/cable. It’s all about numbers now since Netflix is a large company. I hope companies l

• jarjoura 6y ago
  Don't get your hopes up. All the creative heads at HBO have left and HBO Max is on the way to become way more Netflix like than ever.
  • lotsofpulp 6y ago
    AppleTV+ seems to be the new HBO. The 4 or 5 shows/movies on there I saw were all decent if not great.
• jiggawatts 6y ago
  The problem with this kind of "wide appeal" demographic-based analysis used by content producers is that it ignores specialisation. Famously, MTV stopped showing music videos years ago. They did a bunch of analysis to see what the target demo for a music channel is, what that demographic wants to see in general, and started playing that. But, obviously, if I turn on the MUSIC TV channel, I expect to see music. I'm the "target demo" for Science Fiction. That doesn't mean I want to see SciFi when I turn on the evening news. It doesn't mean that I never want to see a period drama, or a nature documentary. But based on a purely statistical analysis, I should only be shown Science Fiction forever and ever, on every channel, because that's my favourite content category. Similarly, the number #1 most popular content for the general public is sports for men and celebrity gossip for women. Does this mean that every streaming service, TV channel, and content producer should create nothing else other than Soccer, Football, Dancing with the Stars, and Big Brother Celebrity? It seems producers think so. They really do, and NetFlix is going down that path as fast as their statistics will carry them...