>> Now if this is the future of tv, this will lead inevitably to less diversity. This would be a very sad development. Debatable, surely. Especially since Ho

>> Now if this is the future of tv, this will lead inevitably to less diversity. This would be a very sad development. Debatable, surely. Especially since House of cards on NetFlix was a remake of a BBC drama from 1990 [1]. Suggesting that diversity exists because someone could be bothered to make it, presumably without data-mining. The point is that this diversity is, predictably, not in the mainstream. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_(UK_TV_series) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_(UK_TV_series)