"The TV people still think there is a market for drama, but it has shrunk - the ideas need to be better, the budgets need to be significantly lower."
This is heartening! Constraints are good for creativity after a period of anything goes. The same thing is happening in tech, which was awash in cheap-to-free capital over the same period. Ideas need to be better, and teams need to be much leaner. I am a technical writer, but this makes me want to take a stab at a script if people aren't pitching like they used to.
Good perspective, as always!
Great article. Sure I told you at lunch but when we interviewed Jerry Bruckheimer he still has to pitch, and still gets people saying No
Yes, this was very much in my head when I wrote it
"The TV people still think there is a market for drama, but it has shrunk - the ideas need to be better, the budgets need to be significantly lower."
This is heartening! Constraints are good for creativity after a period of anything goes. The same thing is happening in tech, which was awash in cheap-to-free capital over the same period. Ideas need to be better, and teams need to be much leaner. I am a technical writer, but this makes me want to take a stab at a script if people aren't pitching like they used to.