Category: The TV Biz

TV Streaming Services Jumped Over 200% in the Past Year

Somehow, we missed this report from the front when it first came out several months ago. But the battle for audience eyeballs is so important that we don’t want you to miss the following.

And don’t be fooled. This is a genuine war…business style:

Photo: Maskot / Getty Images

by Sarah Perez

Live-streaming TV services, like Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, Hulu with Live TV and others, are gaining steam in the U.S. as more consumers cut the cord with traditional pay TV. According to a new report from Conviva out this morning, these services (called virtual MVPDs) now account for more than three-quarters of all plays and viewing hours in the U.S., when compared with standalone apps from individual publishers, which have declined in usage. read article

Netflix Pays Top Dollar

Success as a TV creative means more than just knowing how to write. It also means knowing what to do with your creations, which starts with deciding whom to take them to.

Right now, it’s looking more and more like Netflix is the in, hip, and trendy TV place. Because there can be no question that Netflix is out to be the largest supplier of TV and film product in our corner of the universe – and perhaps beyond:

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More About ‘You’

Time now for another perspective on a not-so-little series called You, which not only has become a streaming TV giant, it also catapulted last week’s TVWriter™ article called From the Cable Graveyard to Netflix Darling: Something Amazing Happened to ‘YOU’ to the top of our list of visitors’ fave posts.

Here’s the skinny:

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A Message from TVWriter™’s First Contributing Editor, Herbie J Pilato

by Herbie J Pilato

Last Friday was the official pub-date of my new book, MARY: THE MARY TYLER MOORE STORY, on the 2nd Anniversary of Mary’s passing.

Below are two excerpts of the book; one from the Television Academy and Emmys.com; the other in Closer Magazine.

And on the left is a photo expressing my utter delight of seeing this book come into being. read article

From the Cable Graveyard to Netflix Darling: Something Amazing Happened to ‘YOU’

by Rick Drew

Love it or loathe it, YOU, the series that drew little attention when the dark anti-hero thriller/romance first aired on the Lifetime network, has become a viral hit after re-premiering on Netflix in December of 2018.

The modest ten-episode series that barely reached a viewership of 600,000 in its initial broadcast hit the 40,000,000 mark when it landed on the international streaming service. read article