peak TV

The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

by Robert B. Reich  · 24 Mar 2020  · 154pp  · 47,880 words

religion, law enforcement, the physical infrastructure, the news media, the bedrock virtues of civility and community. Nearly everything has turned to crap, it seems, except Peak TV (for those who can afford it).” He might have added the environment and our democracy. The concentration of wealth in America has created an education

Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters With Reality and Virtual Reality

by Jaron Lanier  · 21 Nov 2017  · 480pp  · 123,979 words

Netflix and HBO were able to get people to pay for subscriptions for good TV. Suddenly we’re in a renaissance that has been dubbed Peak TV.) Your friends, lovers, purchases, and insecure gig economy gigs are brought to you by acts of misdirection that echo Netflix’s moot algorithm. A bounty

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

by Jaron Lanier  · 28 May 2018  · 151pp  · 39,757 words

to challenge it. But then companies like Netflix and HBO convinced people to pay a monthly fee, and the result is what is often called “peak TV.” Why couldn’t there also be an era of paid “peak social media” and “peak search”? Watch the end credits on a movie on Netflix

Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America

by Alissa Quart  · 25 Jun 2018  · 320pp  · 90,526 words

programs of my childhood presented very different rich people from the wealthy we see on TV today, in television’s golden age—otherwise known as “peak TV.” Peak TV shows include The Wire, The Sopranos, and Mad Men. Premium cable, with its loosened content restrictions and quality programming, has made possible a period of

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Institute, 257 Parkland College, 37 Parton, Dolly, 251 Paternity leave, 15–16, 24–27, 29–30, 50 “Patriarchy,” 21 Patrice, Joe, 106 “Pay transparency,” 29 Peak TV, 217 Pema (nanny), 118 Personality tests, 179 Pew Research Center, 4, 9, 129, 218 Pharmacy robots, 225–27 Phillips, Anne, 263 Platform cooperativism, 157–60

Chokepoint Capitalism

by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow  · 26 Sep 2022  · 396pp  · 113,613 words

Manager.” 7. Writers Guild of America, Annual Financial Report, June 29, 2019, https://www.wga.org/uploadedfiles/the-guild/annual-report/annualreport19.pdf; John Koblin, “Peak TV Hits a New Peak, with 532 Scripted Shows,” New York Times, Jan. 9, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/business/media/tv-shows

Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World

by Anupreeta Das  · 12 Aug 2024  · 315pp  · 115,894 words

, 171, 175, 245, 248, 271, 274 Tuna, Cari, 206 Tunney Act, 73 Turner, Ted, 131–132, 134, 136 Turner Foundation, 131 Twain, Mark, 20 Twin Peaks (TV series), 267 Twitter, see X TXU (utility company), 269 Tye, John, 233 U2, 100 Uber, 58 Ukraine, Russian invasion of, 279 “Unconfuse Me with Bill

The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success

by Ross Douthat  · 25 Feb 2020  · 324pp  · 80,217 words

to relate to one another anymore.) And TV’s golden age may have been a temporary thing, succeeded quickly by the rather different age of “peak TV,” in which the flood of content is overwhelming but also often algorithmically optimized, tending inevitably toward its own forms of repetition, mediocrity, the safe imitation

The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

by Steven W. Thrasher  · 1 Aug 2022  · 361pp  · 110,233 words

transgender women transphobia Treatment Action Group (TAG) Truman, Harry Trump, Donald Truvada Tryon, Andrew tuberculosis (TB) Tuscaloosa City Council “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis” Twin Peaks (TV show) Twitter Types of Mankind (Nott and Gliddon) typhoid fever typhus Tyson Foods U (short film) Uber Eats UBS Ugly Laws, The (Schweik) undocumented unemployment

Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class

by Noam Scheiber  · 6 Apr 2026  · 399pp  · 120,332 words

movie trailers. She also began working nights and weekends as an assistant for a television writer-producer. It was the moment when the peak in “Peak TV” was just emerging—the number of scripted TV shows would nearly triple over the next twelve years. Having initially aspired to write feature films, Sydney

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was never picked up. Eventually a writer from an earlier gig helped her land the showrunner’s assistant job on NCIS: New Orleans. In the Peak TV–era, writers tended to be sheepish about working on crime procedurals. Many procedural writers saw themselves as slumming it while they bided their time for

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of scripted TV shows: John Koblin, “Hollywood Made 14% Fewer Shows in 2023, Marking the End of Peak TV,” The New York Times, February 9, 2024, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/business/media/peak-tv-shows-2023-decline.html. they were both writers and producers: Scheiber, “How TV Writing Became a Dead

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: animated shows and; career trajectories in; Covid-19 pandemic impact; duration of; late-night comedy writers in; minimum number of writers in; mini-rooms and; “Peak TV” and; promotions within; residuals and; showrunners’ assistants and; showrunners in; streaming’s effect on; wages in; writing duos in WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) X Xu

It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO

by Felix Gillette and John Koblin  · 1 Nov 2022  · 575pp  · 140,384 words

a second career in television. By the late 2010s, the TV industry was neck-deep into a new era of superabundance, often referred to as Peak TV. With Netflix and other well-funded streaming services pouring billions of dollars into original programming—and traditional networks like HBO trying to keep up—the

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magazine and newspaper empires of the twentieth century were desperately cutting weight, a steady migration of talent was being steered into the welcoming arms of Peak TV. Just two decades after Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell had greeted her small-screen suitors with indifference, the TV industry was now a

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,” Rolling Stone, July 27, 2017. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “They just overwhelmed us”: Michael Schneider, “FX’s John Landgraf on the State of Peak TV, and the Network ‘Arms Race,’ ” TV Insider, January 16, 2016. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Back in early 2007: Alex Ben Block, “How HBO

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Tension and Thrilling Surreality of HBO’s ‘Watchmen,’ ” New Yorker, October 18, 2019. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT According to one estimate: Michael Schneider, “Peak TV Tally, According to FX Research,” Variety, January 12, 2022. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Though only in his midthirties: Lucy Feldman, “Playwright Branden Jacobs

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, 342 Parsifal International, 258 Parsons, Richard Albrecht arrest and, 195 replaces Levin as head of AOL Time Warner, 154–55 Paxton, Bill, 187 PBS, 30 Peak TV, 331–32 Pelecanos, George, 290 Penney, John, 181–82, 204, 212 permanent campaign strategy, 67–68, 107–8, 206 Perrineau, Harold, 103 Perry, Matthew, 50

Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV

by Peter Biskind  · 6 Nov 2023  · 543pp  · 143,084 words