WORLD SCREEN
The New Normal?: Distribution Trends
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Distributors are finding ways to fulfill the endless need for programming resulting from new streaming platforms, viewers stuck at home during lockdowns and delayed productions.
For quite some time, we have heard repeated references to Peak TV hundreds of series produced and rolled out year-round. This astonishing amount has created problems for channels and platforms, which have struggled with ensuring their shows get sampled, and for viewers who have to find the shows and the time to watch them.
In the past year, the industry has seen a shift to Peak Demand. The coronavirus forced productions to shut down, delayed delivery of shows and halted sports events, leaving channels and platforms with holes in their offerings. But viewers, whose lives had been disrupted by lockdowns and limited socializing, had more time on their hands and were desperate for new shows to watch.
WORLD SCREEN
March 2021 Digital Editions Now Available
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The March Digital Editions of World Screen, TV Kids and TV Listings are now available, providing a host of interactive features such as embedded videos, links to our WorldScreenings.com video portal and more in an elegant, user-friendly design targeted to on-the-go reading.
The Hustler with Stephen Lambert and All3Media International’s Nick Smith.
2021-03-11
The digital edition of World Screen featuring interviews with Russell T Davies, Tony Hale, ZDF’s Thomas Bellut, All3Media’s Jane Turton, ViacomCBS’s Kelly Day, ProSiebenSat.1’s Henrik Pabst and much more is now available. You can also access the digital editions of TV Kids, TV Drama, TV Real, TV Listings and the World Screen Guide.