The Business of Television, 2nd Edition

Conclusion

DOI: 10.4324/9781003178095-15

When FX Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Landgraf gave his seminal Peak TV address in August 2015 in which he declared, There is simply too much television, he made two concrete predictions for what would follow.¹ His first prediction was that the number of scripted original television series on the air in 2015 would easily blow through the 400 series mark. Landgraf was quickly proven right, as the count for 2015 reached 422 original series (up from 389 the previous year). Landgraf’s less-remembered second prediction was that the Peak in Peak TV was already almost upon us. My sense is that 2015 or 2016 will represent peak TV in America, Landgraf said, and that we’ll begin to see declines coming ...