Why we can’t haz nice things:
Unreleased episodes of several high-profile TV-shows including American Gods, The 100, Bless This Mess, and Knightfall have leaked online. The leaks appear to come from promotional screeners, some of which carry revealing watermarks. The pirate releases are sponsored by a Russian gambling site.
Happy Monday everybody!
Hope you’ve had a great weekend. Time now for TVWriter™’s latest look at our most popular blog posts and resource pages during the week ending yesterday. They are, in order:
Today’s adventure in “correlation vs. causation.” Sigh:
As cord cutting opens Americans up to new content they can’t get with cable TV, it is no surprise that TV ratings are continuing to drop. BTIG, a research group focused on topics like TV, has reported that network ratings are down on average 18% in 2019 compared to 2018. The biggest drop is ABC, which is seeing its viewing down 22% in the ever important 18-49 demographic.
Congrats to the new Fellows – John Timothy, Shelley Dennis, William Paul Smith, Cara Jade Myers, Micah Ian War Dog Wright, Carolina Hoyos, Robert Vestal!
The LA Skins Fest, a Native American film festival, has selected the fellows for its Native American TV Writers Lab.
A tragic tale as YouTube (owned by Google) “bows out of Hollywood Arms Race with Netflix and Amazon.
Wusses!
YouTube has canceled plans for high-end dramas and comedies, people with knowledge of the matter said, a pullback from its grand ambitions for a paid service with Hollywood-quality shows.