Afternoon Insiders, it’s good to know you. Max Goldbart here penning the newsletter after a busy week. Sign up here. The Future Of TV Death of cable: Hoards of American execs descended on the English capital for Content London this week.
The ensuing debates about the future of global TV were fascinating, with plenty optimism, plenty pessimism and a fair bit of stargazing.
Jesse and I were there and one constant was an American equivalent of the “squeezed middle” (covered from a British standpoint in our Edinburgh Insider a few months back).
That is mostly manifesting itself in the death of long-running, high-volume cable shows, which is having serious ramifications for the industry across the pond.
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