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Dramas seem to be fading or just missing this season, but limited series are going strong

Dramas seem to be fading or just missing this season, but limited series are going strong

“Television is a complex, difficult, challenging process. There is something inherently easier in terms of executing a one-season show and all that it takes on thematically, and having a beginning, middle and end to it, versus challenging an audience with a thematic center of a show that needs to exist, say, three, five, seven seasons, where it runs the risk of becoming sort of repetitive or redundant,” Orsi says. “In some ways, [limited] is an easier path than the rigor of an ongoing series, having to explore the essence of a show in different ways but always still being the thing that was bought right out of the gate.”
A past/present rundown on Wolf's interactions with NBC/Universal

A past/present rundown on Wolf's interactions with NBC/Universal

NBC believes Mr. Wolf is being greedy. Provided his shows survive a few more seasons, he will make around $750 million for his work on five shows in the "Law and Order" franchise. His contract gives him more power than perhaps any other producer in the industry. It includes a provision that Mr. Wolf believes entitles him to a multi-million dollar "kill-fee" if the network cancels any of his shows. NBC disagrees. NBC also says its rerun strategy is good for business because it is one more way to promote the franchise.
Why Did the Jason Arday Story Explode So Quickly?

Why Did the Jason Arday Story Explode So Quickly?

Of course, this does not mean every allegation was correct, every article was fair, or every investigator had benign motives. Nor does it rule out racial bias in the intensity or framing of some of the scrutiny. But it does caution against assuming that the sheer amount of coverage, by itself, establishes any single explanation for why that scrutiny occurred. The same chronology can accommodate more than one mechanism: the story itself may have been unusually combustible, while racial or ideological bias may still have influenced who investigated it, how some coverage was framed, or how particular audiences responded.
9 thoughts on Jason Arday

9 thoughts on Jason Arday

So this is why I don’t think citing simply racism and drawing a sober comparison with other alleged academic plagiarists fully explains the story. Though racism clearly played a part, he was still a fantasist in a high-profile role. A better model to understand why the Arday story ‘cut through’ is perhaps previous similarly bizarre stories, like ‘canoe man’ John Darwin, ‘Cat Bin Woman’, or even an incident like Dominic Cummings’s trip to Barnard Castle, where more than any technical political story about Covid policy, in that case the public could smell bullshit and it came wrapped up in a compelling story.