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03-20-2015, 01:27 AM
http://flavorwire.com/510017/how-cables-golden-age-is-improving-network-television
By Jason Bailey on Mar 18, 2015 9:00am
AUSTIN, TX: Even under the blandly vanilla blanket title “Creating the Shows That We Like” (careful, don’t over-commit yourself there!), a television panel spotlighting both American Crime‘s John Ridley and The Last Man on Earth‘s Will Forte, Chris Miller, and Phil Lord seems like a bit of a stretch — these are, after all, two almost comically different shows, one a serialized drama about race, class, and crime, the other an absurd, post-apocalyptic comedy starring an SNL alum. And to their credit, one of the running jokes of the panel was what an odd pairing they are. “Similar to John’s thing,” Miller began early on, before hearing himself and adding, “And you can barely say anything is similar about American Crime and Last Man on Earth…” Yet the joke kept popping up, because both of these series — risky, potentially difficult shows more likely to wind up on cable these days — say quite a bit about how network television is responding to cable’s domination. …
By Jason Bailey on Mar 18, 2015 9:00am
AUSTIN, TX: Even under the blandly vanilla blanket title “Creating the Shows That We Like” (careful, don’t over-commit yourself there!), a television panel spotlighting both American Crime‘s John Ridley and The Last Man on Earth‘s Will Forte, Chris Miller, and Phil Lord seems like a bit of a stretch — these are, after all, two almost comically different shows, one a serialized drama about race, class, and crime, the other an absurd, post-apocalyptic comedy starring an SNL alum. And to their credit, one of the running jokes of the panel was what an odd pairing they are. “Similar to John’s thing,” Miller began early on, before hearing himself and adding, “And you can barely say anything is similar about American Crime and Last Man on Earth…” Yet the joke kept popping up, because both of these series — risky, potentially difficult shows more likely to wind up on cable these days — say quite a bit about how network television is responding to cable’s domination. …