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Well said. I would add: 9) Embrace exploration (benchmark globally in areas outside of your core industry, seek out other perspectives, adjacent industries, etc) 10) Adopt and deploy rapid iteration (possibly fits in #6) (quickly experiment, update, and modify things that are unknown and outside of your comfort zone. Often times a mistake or discovery takes place leading to a new opportunity) “So for all companies facing new threats, please do this. 1) Be honest 2) Don't act in denial 3) Don't lie 4) Don't blame each other/ 5) Don't worry. 6) Attack like mad 7) Face up to the profound new possibilities ahead 8) Don't be afraid to make the radical changes required, it's not a weakness, it's a strength. It doesn't admit mistakes, it's just how life is. And finally, it's easier to build than change, focus on doing new things.

“Mid TV, on the other hand, almost can’t be bad for some of the same reasons that keep it from being great. It’s often an echo of the last generation of breakthrough TV (so the highs and lows of “Game of Thrones” are succeeded by the faithful adequacy of “House of the Dragon”). Or it’s made by professionals who know how to make TV too well, and therefore miss a prerequisite of making great art, which is training yourself to forget how the thing was ever done and thus coming up with your own way of doing it.” This is a thoughtful encapsulation of the conversations I’ve been having the past few years with people who make TV. Economics played a huge role in the rise of TV as art in the past 20 years, and it’s part of the pullback towards the safe and competent fare of today. Always there’s some snobbery here - not sure the Times critic uses the word middlebrow but that perspective has always been there on the medium. “I don’t watch TV” was a common catchphrase of intellectuals in the 80s and 90s but seemed head in the sand in the age of the Sopranos, The Wire and, more recently, shows like Homeland and Billions. But when you look at what people really watch these days, well - we are back to the era of turn your brain off, but not quite the “idiot box”. In commercial over the air TV you didn’t want people to have too strong an emotional reaction because they wouldn’t stay tuned for the commercials. And, although the amplitude has increased, recognizable comfort food is what most people want. Pitch your shows accordingly. https://lnkd.in/giu6hcwS

Research: Peak TV Has… Peaked. So Here’s What’s Coming Next. Born circa 2013, died 2023 — 10 glorious years marking the rise and death of Peak TV — is disinterred and examined in a new report, which also predicts what Hollywood and viewers can expect of the next phase of home entertainment. In a nutshell: the rise and the demise of Peak TV (roughly the period between House of Cards to the finale of Succession), was the result of a number of factors, not least being an oversaturation of prestige drama and a content spent that jumped from $139 billion in 2014 to $243 billion by 2022. One thing of which we can be sure going forward: much fewer premium series, more content like the network cable TV of old. https://lnkd.in/gx4xw4Td https://lnkd.in/gceSQZ6m Matthew Macfadyen and Sarah Snook in “Succession.” Cr: HBO #ContentSpending #PeakTV #HomeEntertainment

I heard a senior TV exec talk this week about the changing TV landscape and their plans for it. It was clear they had absolutely NO idea how modern people think of TV. It seems like they've got no kids or never talked to a kid or ever watched one. They had no idea about Streaming, and its impact on TV, let alone understanding the impact of YouTube, or this thing called TikTok, or Instagram. Around 2014 I got laughed out of a conference about the future of TV, with TV people, saying "it's just video, we don't care how it gets to us" It's not SVOD or OTT, it's WWWWWWWWI ( we watch what we want when we want it ) or increasingly WWWINIF ( we watch whatever is next in feed) This isn't to say that TV companies are screwed. Being able to make great quality content is more vital than ever. Having "brands" or "stars" is every bit as important as ever, because people need to navigate abundance. TV ads are powerful and scarce . In a radically altered business, TV co's still have the most important cards and competencies. But they do need to change. The issue is that when the world changes, few companies or industries are set up to deal with it. Almost always they act in utter denial. Individuals, counter to what we think get it to, but as groups they decide to be ignorant, it's too scary to face the truth. So they lie to each other, find data to maintain denial, they hide away from the realities, they seek to defend not attack. The reality is that changes always lead to massive opportunities. That redefined categories still favor the deep experience, trust, talent and expertise of incumbents, so long as they can adapt, reorient, and build. So for all companies facing new threats, please do this. 1) Be honest 2) Don't act in denial 3) Don't lie 4) Don't blame each other/ 5) Don't worry. 6) Attack like mad 7) Face up to the profound new possibilities ahead 8) Don't be afraid to make the radical changes required, it's not a weakness, it's a strength. It doesn't admit mistakes, it's just how life is. And finally, it's easier to build than change, focus on doing new things.

Broadcast TV is great. It's magic. Great-looking images come through the air. But...picking up a phrase from work, the linear TV world seems to be looking for "faster horses" instead of navigating a shift in habits (which has already happened!) with clarity. It's just not relevant. It's full of broadly-bad content and the sub-channels are a wasteland of 1970s and 80s shows. The tech is there, but it's supporting content that's got a death rattle. Opportunity is being squandered. Sometimes, growth looks like down and to the right for a few years before that hockey stick comes back. Everything can't be awesome forever. Instead of waiting for the market to send your trend lines down, do it yourself because you're planning, and building, and will drop the next phase at JUST the right time (when all your competitors who tried to keep the party going start getting caught out.)

Tom Goodwin wrote the below about TV, but it’s worth considering how the same dynamic applies in #healthcare currently. #AI has clearly consumed every executive’s attention this year. All buying into the hype and potential, but very few with a strategy or even infrastructure to support it. As I continue speaking to front line #clinicians and leaders, many of them are in denial about all of it. For those who are aware, they are defensive. Fostering honest conversations about this is helping tremendously, but not fast enough. From Tom (but read with healthcare and AI in mind): Individuals, counter to what we think, get it to, but as groups they decide to be ignorant, it's too scary to face the truth. So they lie to each other, find data to maintain denial, they hide away from the realities, they seek to defend not attack. The reality is that changes always lead to massive opportunities. So for [anyone] facing new threats, please do this. 1) Be honest 2) Don't act in denial 3) Don't lie 4) Don't blame each other/ 5) Don't worry. 6) Attack like mad 7) Face up to the profound new possibilities ahead 8) Don't be afraid to make the radical changes required, it's not a weakness, it's a strength. It doesn't admit mistakes, it's just how life is. And finally, it's easier to build than change, focus on doing new things. #nursesonlinkedin #leadership #innovation #changemanagement #adaptiveleadership #healthcareinnovation #analytics #generativeai #largelanguagemodels

Radio, TV and Press in a nutshell.

Mid TV «  It worked — so well, in fact, that eventually the truism that TV was garbage was replaced by the truism that TV was the new literature, or cinema, or maybe even religion. TV’s auteurs bestrode the cultural conversation like the easy riders and raging bulls of film in the 1970s. For a good two decades now, it’s been bien-pensant wisdom that TV could be good — no, not just good. Original. Provocative. Important. What we have today instead is something less awful but in a way more sad: The willingness to retreat, to settle, to trade the ambitious for the dependable. Put these two forces together — a rising level of talent and production competence on the one hand, the pressure to deliver versions of something viewers already like on the other hand — and what do you get? You get a whole lot of Mid. MID IS NOT the mediocre TV of the past. It’s more upscale. It is the aesthetic equivalent of an Airbnb “modern farmhouse” renovation, or the identical hipster cafe found in medium-sized cities all over the planet. It’s nice! Mid is not a strict genre with a universal definition. But it’s what you get when you raise TV’s production values and lower its ambitions. It reminds you a little of something you once liked a lot. It substitutes great casting for great ideas. »

THE IDLER: BOOK REVIEW: PANDORA’S BOX BY PETER BISKIND Peter Fincham | 4 Sep 2023 | Books How interesting are the ins-and-outs of the television commissioning process and the internecine office politics of powerful TV executives? When I was director of television at ITV my scheduler was a delightful man called David Bergg, whose job involved studying the ratings and analysing audience trends. David would say things like, “When the history books are written, they will show that we over-indexed for ABC1s in the 9pm slot during the crucial autumn season.” To which I would say, “David, who’s going to write these history books? And more to the point, who on earth’s going to read them?” Well, the answer is here with Peter Biskind’s weighty tome Pandora’s Box: the Greed, Lust and Lies that Broke Television. Biskind, who previously wrote the best-seller Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex ’N’ Drugs ’N’ Rock ’N’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood, has now turned his attention to the momentous changes that have taken place in the TV business over the past couple of decades. The narrative itself is straightforward. The original networks – CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox – had become increasingly moribund by playing it safe, avoiding difficult subjects such as sex and violence, and targeting the easy-to-offend audiences of middle America. Then along came the disrupters. First the cable networks like HBO, Showtime and AMC, who ignored all the so-called rules with shows like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad. And then, more recently, the streamers – Netflix, Amazon, Apple +, Disney +. At which point budgets took off like a Star Wars Imperial Shuttle, and the new golden age of television was born. So far, so familiar. On one level this is a tale of capitalism in its purest form – innovation, market dominance, complacency, disruption – with the whole cycle being replayed over and again. You could say that TV networks are like the airlines we remember from our youth, with the big four – NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox – playing the role of TWA and Pan Am. Although the difference is that the original TV networks are still around, as well as the cable networks, and the streamers. The skies are pretty crowded out there, and it’s estimated that around 500 English-language drama series are made every year. They call it “peak TV”. This gives the narrative arc of Biskind’s book a problem, or maybe the problem just lies with the sub-title – the Greed, Lust and Lies that Broke Television. As the author freely admits in the first few pages, television isn’t broken. Its golden age just seems to go on and on, and as we acquire more and more devices that allow us to watch the stuff at pretty much every stage of our waking lives, we happily do so. The other challenge for Pandora’s Box is that in order to tell this tale you have to turn TV execs into a bunch of characters we actually give a damn about. Link to full review: https://lnkd.in/eThQqw2d

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