Streaming Services Have Finally Run Out of New Shows. Kind of.
The pandemic is finally catching up with the major streaming services.
Every couple weeks during the pandemic, a different friend has asked me the same question: When are we going to run out of new TV shows?
Not yet, I’d tell them. Production had stopped or slowed just about everywhere, so it stood to reason that we’d see the impact on screen. Yet while broadcast networks suffered almost right away, streaming services were in a better position. Netflix in particular had banked a lot of series, and kept telling investors it was not going to reduce its output.