The announcement by President Donald Trump of a plan to try to help the American film industry by imposing prices on the films made abroad has attracted a lot of confusion and criticism. But Hollywood is in free fall. California Productions has flat and won a television writing work, it's now like competing The Hunger Games. Can the company, as we know, be saved – and which is really to blame for its current implosion?
Here is a eccentric theory concerning the second question of this journalist who has become a television writer: Trump viewers put Hollywood on his knees, with a decisive pass from the series The thread and other “prestige” television projects.
Here's what I mean.
When I was a child, he had not called nothing “Prestige” television. There was just television. If it was good, everyone looked at him. If it was bad, he was canceled and above all forgotten.
St. elsewhere, Cagney & Lacey, Golden GirlsThe Jeffers –All these classic shows were traditional successes, leading cultural conversations, generating massive audiences and gaining a lot of critical renown. And they were all on network television.
But the cable created a class fracture. I had to ask a friend once to let me come and watch Sex and city–She could afford a cable and I couldn't. This fracture was exacerbated by entertainment journalists and initiates who are becoming more and more in love with shows that many Americans did not really look. (I became perfectly aware when Lena Dunham Girls has become a phenomenon. There was endless cover of Girls In the press, even if a few hundred thousand people looked at him.)
Sex and city And Sopranos were among the first wave of shows that became a secret that only cool children could discuss. The thread was a tilting point. He was grainy, based on real life and created by the journalist who has become the legend of television David Simon – not necessarily a fun view, but the kind of program you supposed To look. But despite the insistence of my colleagues friend writers who are obsessed, The thread was not a great success. He has not won major prices, and he did not score large grades. The public he found, however, was prestigious, including President Barack Obama.
I will never forget the time that another writer reprimanded me for not watching each episode of The threadAlthough I had watched each episode of a program on which she worked on. But it was a network show and she therefore found my taste questionable, which is always hilarious.
What is not funny, however, is how the gap between The thread Obsessions and everyone has grown since I entered the industry. When I started, the meetings ran the gambit of family dramas, comedies and superhero shows. Finally, however, each project was focused on something “edgy”.
But notes data Systematically affirms the domination of CBS, which houses many sitcoms and road media. Most Americans don't want to “pissed off”. Today, real life is sufficiently annoyed.
The gap that emerged in entertainment consumption is parallel to the political divide of our country. The campaign against Donald Trump was based on the idea that intelligent people would never vote for him; Hollywood continues to make things that few people want to watch, then saying that it is “prestige” television that only intelligent people get. Is it a surprise when most Hollywood approved Kamala Harris and half of the country haus their shoulders and voted for the other guy?
Conservative writer Jon Podhoretz predicted in 2021 that the media elites' Obsession with the show Succession–against YellowstoneDespite what the latter having a much wider audience – has deposited a potential re -election of Trump. He was right. The question is whether Hollywood has learned or not since.
Ironically, this network shows when I was a child could be considered “pissed off”. Golden Girls was one of the first television shows in which a gay couple discussed their wedding. It also included an interracial couple, but was not the first – it would be The Jeffersons. CAGNY & LACEY addressed the debate on abortion in 1985.
These programs respected viewers enough not to speak to them. They trusted that if the writing was good, and the actors were tall, the Americans – of all political and races affiliations – would watch each other. Research confirm These television shows can move the needle on people's political and social attitudes, but only if people watch them! By ideologically separating content, Hollywood has in fact moved our country upside down. Unfortunately, many of its decision-makers are lacking in ideological diversity to see it.
I hope it changes soon. Perhaps the prospect of production and shoots that spread to the national scale will help. Because I shiver to think about what the political landscape of our country will look like if people never watch television shows with family members and friends. Republican credits for Operation Karl Rove The Cosby Show With changing perspectives on black Americans in a way that paved the way for the election of President Barack Obama. But that only happens if the Americans who do not agree on politics can agree on what constitutes a large television.
