Are We Getting Too Many New Television Shows For Our Own Good?

Call it the summer of goggle box ’s discontent . There ’s been an unusually high amount of studio meddling in upcoming TV series this summertime . show have been revise , showrunners have been fired , blood has been spilled . And the reasonableness may be that television studios are just producing too much content now .

“ Half of the 2015 - 16 greenhorn class of program serial publication has stand a retooling , recasting or showrunner switcheroo,”according to The Hollywood newsperson ’s in - depth paper . Including The Frankenstein Code , which just became Lookinglass , and Minority Report , which had some major recasting .

This happen every yr , to some extent — show that had vast creative reorganisation after their pilots were shoot include ( off the top of my foreland ) Alcatraz and Sleepy Hollow . Both of those shows had showrunner turnover before they even made their second episodes , if I commend aright . But the scope of this yr ’s summer tinkering is unprecedented — and The Hollywood Reporter ’s industriousness seed claim that part of the problem is that networks are less patient than ever before if a show ’s 2d episode is n’t as mindblowing as its pilot . They used to have a lot more tolerance for the melodic theme that a show might take a while to find its feet . ( And bear in mind , the cowcatcher usually films at least six month before the second episode , which is when the show really begin to hit the ground run . )

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There are so many young TV shows come on all the time — let in offerings on Netflix , Amazon , and other outlets — that audiences wo n’t give a show a few episodes to work out out the gain ground formula any more . So there ’s increased insistency to get it properly early on on , but also a stack of secondly - guessing . And read between the lines , it sounds as though some of the tinkering is just lead in show that wo n’t actually have a inviolable creative visual sensation at all — because of the musical chairs behind the panorama , and the web paranoia about the out of the question challenge of get hold a mass interview . So , basically , poise yourself for a whole great deal of mediocre , over - package idiot box this autumn and spring .

And the Hollywood newsman clause links back toan earlier piece , from a month ago , in which FX pass John Landgraf told newsman there is “ simply too much idiot box ” mighty now , and it ’s kind of a content bubble . Landgraf told the TCA , “ I long ago lost the power to keep track of every scripted TV serial publication … But this year , I finally lost the ability to keep track of every coder who is in the script programing business . ”

Over meter , the unmingled amount of new television programming may decrease as more show fail to discover an hearing — but for now , it sounds as though we ’re in for a surfeit of highly forgettable television — with , one hopes , the episodic standout .

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