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Netflix’s Big Data Dump Shows Just OK TV Is Here to Stay (www.wired.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Just okay TV is here to stay

Is this news to literally anyone? Just okay TV has been a mainstay for my entire 30+ year life. How do you think shit like the masked singer, the seventh spinoff of NCIS, 18 law and orders, the voice, basically all reality TV, etc stay in the air so long? Recycled scripts, easy to make, low production costs. They don't need a lot of viewers. They only need enough viewers to glue eyes to the product/ads. In Netflix case it's not ads (yet...just wait), but every Mary and Jim that will watch easy to make trash just to have something on is a Mary and Jim that they can rely on to keep paying their subscription fee. The people that will consume just okay trash are the PRIMARY demographic for most content creators of all types, make no mistake.