Financing the 'Limited Series'

摘要

The newest trend this upfront season is the "limited series," shows planned from the start to air far less than the traditional 22 episodes and more like 10 to 15 episodes. It's only been very recently, with the rise of Netflix and other subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services, that broadcast networks and TV studios could afford to program shows that run less than 22 episodes per year. All four of the major broadcast nets ordered limited series to air next season. Of course, limited series-formerly known as miniseries-are nothing new, but until this point they have mostly been limited to cable.