11/17/2023 0 Comments Ace of spades hqRecently, she contributed her expertise as an AI consultant for SAG-AFTRA's negotiating committee.īateman began her career in Hollywood with an acclaimed and Emmy-nominated portrayal of Mallory Keaton on the TV show Family Ties. For those of you who don't know, Justine Bateman is a writer, director, and producer. Today, I came across this amazing interview with Justine Bateman in The Hollywood Reporter. It's the TV that's the Second Screen, the unimportant one. The phone is the First Screen, the more important screen people are looking at. They have a term for this type of "entertainment" - Second Screen. She's a producer now.Īnd she says that scripts get notes that say, basically, too much is happening in this episode, it might bother viewers to make them look up at the TV too much. This was all confessed by Justine Bateman. They don't want the TV shows interfering with Twitter and TikTok. Not only is Hollywood aware that their "prestige" cable shows are 43 minutes of flabby filler and three minutes of actual story, but they're actually demanding that scripts be written this way.Īnd they're demanding that shows be written this way because they're aware that they've now conditioned their audience - mostly women - to play on their phones while "watching" their boring content, and don't want to interrupt "viewers" too much by requiring that they pay attention too much. Yesterday Instapundit linked an article from July 25th. Usually I would miss the few important moments in a show, but would realize I missed something, so I'd rewind a bit and see if anything consequential happened.Ī show that had to be watched like that is not worth watching. I quit watching the Marvel TV shows when I realized that when I was "watching" these shows, I was actually just reading Twitter 90% of the time (this is when I was on Twitter) and only occasionally looking up at the TV show. You absolutely just cannot watch this very expensive paint drying without something else to occupy your mind. I've said before, maybe not here, that a cell phone is now a required peripheral for "watching" television. They have realized that 90% of the runtime of the shows they watch is pure filler, so they mostly play on their phones scrolling through Twitter and watching TikToks and occasionally look up if they hear someone shouting dramatically or maybe if they hear a gunshot. always being on their phones or computers while watching - theoretically - television. I've noticed that women have solved this problem by. I had previously watched shows like this, "prestige" shows which thought "prestige" meant "wasting the viewer's precious time." Netflix's overpraised Marvel TV shows were all like this. If I had that kind of free time, I'd actually read a book for once. ![]() And I keep telling them, I cannot sit and watch an hour long TV show to see three or four minutes, tops, of actual story. People, and by people I mean women, keep suggesting I watch this show or that one. That can be an effective tactic when used sparingly. ![]() If there's an interpersonal problem that gets resolved, fine, that's a bit of drama carried by conversation.īut when they just keep blabbing about the same problems every week, never resolving them? That is just stringing the audience along, padding the runtime, and spinning plates on stage.Īnother element of the flabbiness is that every actor takes long actorly pauses when speaking. Rather than getting to points quickly, every show now pads the hell out of its runtime by limiting the number of consequential events in an hour's worth of show to 1-3, and then filling up the rest of the time with people talking to each other about their soap opera problems.Īnd not resolving them. SeptemThe Reason for the Coming Collapse of Television.? The "Second Screen" Principleįor years, I have been railing against "prestige" cable.
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