Interestng Note On Trends in Telivision
This post talks about how serial dramas have taken over as the main kind of show broadcasted on the national networks.
24 has become an icon in television viewing. The television world has become serialized due in large part to 24’s success. I really think that 24 changed the way we view TV. Networks are realizing that we as a viewing audience can follow a show from week to week, season to season without becoming lost. We don’t need everything spelled out for us in one episode. In consequence the networks have had to up the ante and give us higher quality more complex shows. 24’s success has truly been instrumental in altering the TV world.
I have never seen 24 but the fact that Heroes, a laugabaly bad series drama, is phenomenally popular lends credence to his position. Its interesting to note that now that the national network are facing stiff competition from cable networks their product has increased in quality. The production quality of many of these shows nears the same level found in cinema.
Capitalism. Is there anything it can’t do?
December 14th, 2006 at 6:46 am
Lol, is the website that was posted on OPENLY owned by the makers of 24, or are they pretending it’s a fan site with real people posting?
Also, NOW THAT they’re competing with cable? How long has cable been around, 30 years?
December 14th, 2006 at 6:46 am
Anyway, credit should go to West Wing, which I think was the first ongoing TV series to be shot on movie stock.
December 14th, 2006 at 10:37 am
Capitalism doesnt create - it only expands. Passion creates.
December 14th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
steve, why haven’t you watched 24? it’s only the most intense thing on tv EVER. ok, i’m turning off my rant. In the answer to your question about capitalism, i think it’s main drawback is that it can’t create true brother-love. Oh well.
December 14th, 2006 at 7:58 pm
Darwin-
Its more than just the quality of the film the show is shot with. I should say that while cable has been around since the early eighties it has taken a decade or so to really pull viewers from the national broadcasters.
And if anything, it was series produced by HBO and not not west wing that has lead to an increase in quality at the national level.
Trampage-
Few things get the creative juices flowing like the competition capitalism generates. But i will agree that capitalism plays an equally important role in finding ways to make products more accessible to more people. Primarily through the competition of finding creative ways to produce things cheaper.
Boose-
Now that you mention it capitalism also can’t generate that naive belief most liberals have about big government being the solution to all problems.
Damn i guess there are things capitalism cant do after all. That must be why liberal guilt was created.
December 15th, 2006 at 6:44 am
Wait a minute, I thought that the naive belief most liberals have about big government being the solution to all problems was EXACTLY what capitalism was best at producing.
December 15th, 2006 at 7:05 am
Touche.
December 15th, 2006 at 8:53 am
i’d say that belief is pretty much completely independent of capitalism. I mean, even when the government does get too controlling (near-communism) the liberals still say that there needs to be more protections against the greedy capitalists (actual communism). Hell, even when communsim fails, they still say that it’s because the government was controlling things wrong. I don’t think there are many situations in which a bleeding-heart actually thinks that the government made a mistake.
December 15th, 2006 at 10:12 am
We have a resident communist lets put the question to him.
Darwin can the government do wrong?
December 18th, 2006 at 5:50 am
Sure, once it’s been corrupted by corporate lobbyists
December 18th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
-Steve-
what alternate world are you living in. Have you heard of rage, love etc. Maybe competition dosen’t stoke everyone’s fire quite as much as it does for a good little capitalist.
I’m so pleased to think that tonight some little cpitalist is planning how to cut down another tree to bring us mooore good things or maybe bringing us power for our cars from corn.
December 19th, 2006 at 7:11 am
The issue isnt whether competition generated by captialsim is the absolute best motivator but whether its more effective than any other kind. Certainly when tyring to impress mary jane so she will be your g-friend you write a great poem, but Mary Jane aint going to motivate you to find a better way to fasten steal girders to a structure. But that other company will when they can get it done faster and cheaper becase they found a better way.
On the whole competition is the best generator of innovation. Nothing comes close which is not to say other form of motivation can cause creation as well. Its just that competion is most reliable and effective.
December 19th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
My daddy once told me that there was more than one way to skin a cat…Very interesting…maybe You should look into another way to motivate yourself otherwise won’t you just swivell up and die after you have beaten everybody?
December 20th, 2006 at 11:12 am
the other great part about capitalism is that it doesn’t remove other forms of motivation. If you want to go invent something, just for the hell of it, you can. All you need is the money to do so, and viola! you’re free to invent what you want. However, the competition motivation adds an extra boost for important inventions.