[opendtv] New Way to Deliver a Drama: All 13 Episodes in One Sitting
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 09:04:09 -0500
New Way to Deliver a Drama: All 13 Episodes in One Sitting
By BRIAN STELTER
January 31, 2013
Television producers have turned bingeing, hoarding and overeating
into successful prime-time shows for years, but now they are having
to turn their attention to another example of overindulgence - TV
watching.
Binge-viewing, empowered by DVD box sets and Netflix subscriptions,
has become such a popular way for Americans to watch TV that it is
beginning to influence the ways the stories are told - particularly
one-hour dramas - and how they are distributed.
Some people, pressured by their peers to watch "Mad Men" or "Game of
Thrones," catch up on previous seasons to see what all the fuss is
about before a new season begins. Others plan weekend marathons of
classics like "The West Wing" and "The Wire." Like other American
pastimes, it can get competitive: people have been known to brag
about finishing a whole 12-episode season of "Homeland" in one
sitting.
On Friday, Netflix will release a drama expressly designed to be
consumed in one sitting: "House of Cards," a political thriller
starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright. Rather than introducing one
episode a week, as distributors have done since the days of
black-and-white TVs, all 13 episodes will be streamed at the same
time. "Our goal is to shut down a portion of America for a whole
day," the producer Beau Willimon said with a laugh.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/business/media/netflix-to-deliver-all-13-episodes-of-house-of-cards-on-one-day.html
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