Is the Franchise Model Starting to Fatigue in Hollywood?
The Town with Matthew Belloni
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I Really Should Watch the Fresh Prince of Bel Air
I think these days in Hollywood, it's not that. It's necessity and a pre-existing framework is the mother of necessity here because you can sell a show to a broadcast network if it's got a title like True Lies or like Hawaii Five Oh Or any matlock just sold. That's just going to be a legal procedural. But it's called matlock because they need people to know what it's called. I mean, we can go cyclical, you know, yeah, but it's different now, especially in the streaming context. There is so much noise. There are so many options that you kind of want to break through with quality. You can break through with stars
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