Are We Going to Have More Crud and Less Good?

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A lot of what people watch on cable TV and regular TV is fairly cheap programming. Are we going to see more crud and less good stuff? That is an open question. Consumers still have a ton of choice now than they did in the old days of TV.

HBO hopes to win the streaming wars with House of the Dragon, a prequel to Game of Thrones. But GoT’s disastrous finale disappointed viewers, and the prequel is being released as HBO’s parent company, Warner Brothers Discovery, undertakes massive cost-cutting measures. Still: DRAGONS.

This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Tori Dominquez, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

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