[gayle] broadcast and cable networks do you ever find yourself complaining there are too many good shows on tv? i feel like that needs to be celebrated. a new era in television. broadcast and cable networks face a growing competitor, online programming. it would take a revolution for someone like me to have a career as an actor, and the revolution was netflix. you re right. there s a new player in the original content game. it s bedtime. this flood of actors and flooding into tv. the people that are going to change the narrative out there is us. 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 going to be so fun. television used to be, here s what we re showing you and here s your only chance to see it. when there were fewer tv options, there wasn t as much room for experimentation and creativity that we ve seen an explosion of. coming into 20
americans is that every marriage is kind of a cold war. it s two people locked in combat that never actually boil others into combat, and i thought that was just very smart. i think fx did so much good work that it moved television forward. a lot of these networks have been trying to expand their brand. and a lot of how you expand your brand is with a really, really good scripted title. sundance tv had rectified, a show i will always tell people to watch. it s a contemplative show, a show about faith and spiritiate, about a guy who was on death row for 20 years and gets released and is traumatized to learn what the show is like. shows like that get to exist because things keep expanding and there keep being room for more ideas and more different versions of what quality looks like. cinemax had always been the less respected little brother of hbo. people called it skinamax. and rather than compete with what hbo was able to do on sort