[laverne] it would take a revolution for someone like me to have a career as an actor, and the revolution is netflix. you re right. [man] there s a new player in the original content game. uh, is this a bad time? [man] this flood of actors, writers, ideas just gushing into tv. i don t have time to explain lesbian shit to you. the people who are gonna change the narrative out there is us. [woman] there s an avalanche of new streaming services. word of the year? binge-watch. when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. this is gonna be so fun! [theme music] [david] television used to be, here s what we re showing you, and here s your only chance to see it. [james] when there were fewer tv options, there wasn t as much room for experimentation and the creativity that we ve seen an explosion of. [lorraine] coming into 2010, hbo is like the king of the prestige drama. to those beautiful, ignorant bastards. [cheering] when scorsese does boardwalk empire, it just speaks
face a growing competitor online programming. [laverne] it would take a revolution for someone like me to have a career as an actor, and the revolution is netflix. you re right. [man] there s a new player in the original content game. uh, is this a bad time? [man] this flood of actors, writers, ideas just gushing into tv. i don t have time to explain lesbian shit to you. the people who are gonna change the narrative out there is us. [woman] there s an avalanche of new streaming services. word of the year? binge-watch. when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. this is gonna be so fun! [theme music] [david] television used to be, here s what we re showing you, and here s your only chance to see it. [james] when there were fewer tv options, there wasn t as much room for experimentation and the creativity that we ve seen an explosion of. [lorraine] coming into 2010, hbo is like the king of the prestige drama. to those beautiful, ignorant bastards. [cheering] when
i was supposed to dump y all out here, then report back to the cp. then why you still here? i like to watch the new guys sweat. for tv, it felt like the closest place you could get to being in a feature film. and then where tv goes next, also on hbo, is peak tv with game of throne. [game of thrones theme] [james] what hbo hasn t done yet is fantasy. and so the books by george rr martin, in a way they read like an hbo show. it s saying, okay, let s take the lord of the rings and give it the psychological complexity and the realpolitik of an hbo show. when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. everybody s vying for the throne, as the title suggests. and to get there, they re going to do incredibly violent things to each other. and it s going to prove that adults will watch crazy fantasy, sci-fi stuff with dragons in it
you wanted to be on hbo. i was supposed to dump y all out here, then report back to the cp. then why you still here? i like to watch the new guys sweat. for tv, it felt like the closest place you could get to being in a feature film. and then where tv goes next, also on hbo, is peak tv with game of throne. [game of thrones theme] [james] what hbo hasn t done yet is fantasy. and so the books by george rr martin, in a way they read like an hbo show. it s saying, okay, let s take the lord of the rings and give it the psychological complexity and the realpolitik of an hbo show. when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. everybody s vying for the throne, as the title suggests. and to get there, they re going to do incredibly violent things to each other. and it s going to prove that adults will watch crazy fantasy,