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The End of Peak TV

It is not news to anyone who has been paying attention that the current era of television programming, on the legacy broadcast networks, cable channels and streaming services, is a golden age. But an exploration is warranted of how long this creativity can be sustained. At some point, the bubble has to burst, and a reduction in the number of high quality shows will have to decline as a result. Particularly relevant in a year when numerous critical and audience favourites like House of Cards, Veep and Game of Thrones are all ending.

This seems like a very interesting topic but you'll need to check a couple things before you commit to it. First, you'll need to prove that the outgoing shows aren't being replaced by other critical and audience favourites (there's no issue if they're being replaced at the rate they're wrapping up). If this is the case, you should try to support your hypothesis with historical precedents (ie. Has this happened before? And if so, does the current state of TV look similar). – Ian Miculan 7 years ago
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I think this is without a doubt a timely article considering "golden age" is such a conversation starter. In order to make your article unlike the others, I think you need research. For example, maybe make a deep comparison between television today compared to sitcom shows in the 70s or 80s, when they were widely popular with the American population. Did those end? Perhaps they just overpopulated and, as you say, the bubble had to burst. – Emily 7 years ago
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I think the end (as we know it) will come when there is simply too many good tv shows that no show will be able to sustain a sizable enough audience to fund itself. People only have enough time to watch so many tv shows, and the more there is, the more that people will have to miss because they're too busy – fantasticfools 7 years ago
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Mar 13, 2018 John Wilson Hard to understand how any reader would be surprised by the focus of the novel, as it is the only Austen novel to have a character’s name as the title.	Thin Slicing in Jane Austen's "Emma"
Mar 13, 2018 John Wilson I am against Netflix in principle; they want to have a monopoly on all of the television and film content we consume. The more people cut the cord the closer they come to achieving a monopoly. It’s insidious, and people don’t seem to appreciate, or care, what the ramifications are if all of the media they consume is produced by one entity.	Netflix and Impact
Mar 13, 2018 John Wilson The film gets some flak for the casting of James Stewart and John Wayne, both of whom are not too believable as the young versions of themselves. Both men were in their mid-fifties when the film was made, and the look their age. But I don’t mind the casting, because the young Ransom Stoddard is simply how Stoddard remembers himself, not as he actually was. So it fits. As the famous line near the end of the film goes, “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: Cultural Attitude of the Press