I should note - it’s not my opinion. Just the articles. :)

Tbh, a single platform with all the shows would be like £100 a month.

It still transcended that.

It sounds like the OP wants ‘monster of the week’ stuff

Network TV still does police and medical shows that have a ‘monster/crime of the week’ style, but it’s rare now.

So you mostly like episodic formats.

Do you actually like serialised content? Most TV is now serialised, as opposed to being episodic like X-Files.

got is like a bad off brand xenia warrior princess…

It has nothing in common with Xena other than being in the fantasy genre.

You may not like GOT, but that doesn’t make it awful.

That’s mostly Disney content. Most series are 8-10 episodes long still, and there’s more series made than there was in the 90s and 00s.

What TV shows do you like, OP?

For now. Unless some other service buys it.

https://deadline.com/2023/12/warrior-canceled-max-netflix-picks-up-non-exclusive-rights-3-seasons-1235643240/

“Warrior is expected to debut on Netflix in February 2024. If it does well, Netflix could presumably order a new season of the drama based on an original concept and treatment by Bruce Lee, sources tell Deadline exclusively.”

There’s some hope, at least.

Honestly, for all the objections I have when people decry modern TV and the golden age as ending, TV copying film and becoming bogged down in spin-offs and sequels will start to hurt the industry in terms of quality

I really hope we don’t see a glut of spin-offs across the streamers. People should be less credulous.

The world is already somewhat ‘consolidated’ right now via services like Netflix, Hulu/Apple, Amazon content that mostly drops everything they make or commission internationally on day 1.

The point is that this all derives from a fundamentally archaic worldview. It’s utterly absurd that I can’t legally purchase or stream shows like Dummedag (an example) because I don’t live in Norway. My only option in many cases is piracy. Do some of these studios not want people to purchase their content?

Here’s my solution to this, the EU should’ve said: If you refuse to make your TV show legally accessible either to stream or to download for a certain country, piracy of that show within that country should be legal.

Update: https://twitter.com/tvmojoe/status/1734388030721646697?t=WcCUbPGdzqa92sHXwmGgkQ

Tech glitch, apparently

I would argue this is more damaging than most things for places like Lemmy. The wrong people pick up the communities and just abandon them or completely mismanage them. Can’t be helped though.

Although I no longer regard it as near my favourite: The Walking Dead.

Federation has its downsides though, there’s less cohesion across the board. A lemmy/kbin platform may have 20,000 users (an example) but most of them might end up with interacting on instances outside of the one they signed up on. Whereas everyone on Discuit, for instance, will be only interacting on Discuit. There’s something to be said for how a userbase is spread, not just the amount of users. If Kbin wasn’t federated and its own thing, its user trajectory and interaction could’ve been different - although having only recently arrived, I understand that features had stalled for a long time.

I think the long-term trend of federation is smaller instances simply shutting down due to lack of interest/money in maintaining it without any noticeable growth and a small bloc of highly used instances dominating, one main one, and probably some politically charged ones orbiting it. Yes, anyone if they’re annoyed with a particular instance can just down their tools and migrate to another instance - but if you’ve got or run communities on that instance, it is a downside.

Although in Discuits case, yes, it is really, really basic - and that more than anything likely stopped it growing before anything else. There was also administrative problems and other issues that drained users. It hypothetically federating wouldn’t help it at all. Their users would just stop using Discuit and use the larger communities all across Lemmy.

I personally would submit 2011-2021, and that’s not recency bias.

If your preferred format is episodic, or sitcoms then you’ll disagree

I agree although I am not sure Chandler Riggs was up to it