> 2 "Seasons" of a netflix show is not even 1 season of broadcast I'd say most of their episodes are longer, on average. But that's not entirely relevant anywa

> 2 "Seasons" of a netflix show is not even 1 season of broadcast I'd say most of their episodes are longer, on average. But that's not entirely relevant anyway, the main cost is in setting up the production as a whole. > it is hard to tell a compelling story in 6 episodes of TV. It's even harder to do it in one episode - the pilot. In the past, a lot of pilots would be produced and never seen by anyone but execs. Then something like 5% of projects would be picked to air, and typically be given two seasons to iron out any problems - because it would look bad on execs who had fought to use a scarce slot for it, so there was a level of continued support for a while. Episodes were very short in length, and being effectively just containers for ads, it was alright to schedule tried-and-tested material, even if performing in a relatively mediocre manner. Pilots are now less necessary, Netflix will invest on screenplays; but that means that a lot of the selection previously made by execs is now made by viewers. NF execs have less skin in the game, because there isn't a real limit to the amount of picks they can have. Netflix needs subscriber numbers to grow, so it needs big hits more than tv channels did. They have no incentive to continue pushing nonperforming series. > Most of the popular shows on broadcast would never had made it to be popular under the netflix model I'd argue that most of the series produced under the NF model would never even have existed on broadcast.