But this could all be undone rather quickly by the way Netflix and its peers are making TV shows.
There are lots of factors that have contributed to the improved quality of TV -- maybe the biggest change is that the structure of shows is no longer just the primary A-storyline with the secondary B-line; it’s now it’s A through infinity -- but cable TV, and especially pay TV don’t chase demographics in the same way that broadcast TV does.
They give the makers of their shows free reign to exercise all of their creative ideas regardless of what the 18 to 24 demo thinks, and they can afford to give a show a season or two to develop an audience.
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