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Is Sony AXNs Absentia a Sign of Yet Another TV Industry Evolution The world of television how its made and how people watch it has changed rapidly over the last decade. BBC Americas new 13part fantasy drama series, Atlantis, created by Howard Overman Misfits, Julian Murphy Merlin and Johnny Capps Merlin, is set in a time of. Offers news, comment and features about the British arts scene with sections on books, films, music, theatre, art and architecture. The Boondocks Episodes Season 3. Requires free registration. Wednesday, 22 January, 2014 at 040. I watch CBS shows like The Big Bang Theory, NCIS, Person of Interest and How I Met Your Mother and they are all online the day. Showtime Full Equals Online Free' title='Showtime Full Equals Online Free' />Tomorrow is Lipstick Day and M. A. C. is giving away free full tubes of the stuff to celebrate. You dont have to buy anything, just show up at one of their U. S. A prime example of this is Sony AXNs. Absentia.  In discussing the show making its world premiere at the Monte Carlo TV Fest,Variety rightly dubbed Absentia a hotly anticipated Hollywood show. Yet this show wasnt made in Hollywood it was shot largely in Europe. Furthermore at the moment it doesnt have a US release. Is this the next wave in Americas new golden age of televisionThere are a lot of pieces needed to solve this puzzle, so bear with me. What is TVs New Golden Age What Does Absentia Have to do With it Officially the New Golden Age is marked by the HBO drama The Sopranos. I agree, but Id say as do others the precursors to it could be seen in the NBC drama Hill Street Blues. Supergirl Season 1 Episode 7 Vodlocker. The X filesalsoplayed a role in shaping it. Lets look at the components of TVs new golden age and how Sony AXNs Absentia fits in. The First Factor Movie Quality Television. One of the hallmarks of American televisions new golden age is highly creative and multi layered storytelling. However, this trend didnt start because TV executives thought the world needed to see The Sopranos. HBO needed a way to create must see TV in a way that people would pay for. That meant it had to be different from the traditional formulaic shows the networks offered. While at the time no one would frame it this way, the answer was to make movie like television. However the movies being emulated are from David Chase, the creator of The Sopranos originally had envisioned the story as a film. A key change that happened when HBO agreed to make the series is that Chase was given creative control of the series. This fundamentally changed the role of the writercreator of a show and soon it became TVs new normal. Movies and Television  Then and Now. It used to be that great television was the purvey of the executive producer whether they created it or not. Today we talk about the showrunner. That person is usually the writercreator of a television series as well as a hands on executive producer. Much like the director of a film its the showrunners vision that is allowed to shape and drive a show and whom its success or failure is pinned on. Another connection between American film directors and showruners is what occurred to define those roles. One of the things that led to whats referred to as Hollywoods second Golden Age or. New Hollywood, was the introduction of television. Televisions New Golden Age was also pushed by the introducing of new technologies first by cable TV and then the internet. The two eras are similar in the sudden burst of creativity sparked by the freedom given to the artistic side of production. A quick anecdote illustrates this perfectly. During his time directing the Boardwalk. Saw VI Online Putlocker. Empire pilot for HBO, Martin Scorsese told his fellow executive producer Mark Wahlberg,I feel like Im back in the 7. Variety.  Scorsese is one of the greatest auteurs to come out of that New Hollywood period. If he says the two periods feel similar to him theres definitely something similar. The Second Factor Niche TV   The Internet. The other thing that helped create this golden age of television is the ability cable and streaming have to cater to specific interests. This is because cable and streaming shows arent dependent on the number of viewers at a given time. Ratings are irrelevant. In fact, streaming wont give out numbers. What these services both needed was critical acclaim to create buzz and viewers passionate enough about a show to buy a subscription. It meant cable stations and later the streaming services could afford to experiment and break with network TV norms. Its the structure of cable and streaming that made it safe to offer writercreators so much creative control. The Avid Viewer. We will always take a show for a small passionate audience over one that is for everybody. These days, nothing is more important than passion to making a show a success. Joel Stillerman,  AMCs EVP of original programming,                                                                                                                                              production and digital content. THR Many sneer at the term fandom, but are quite comfortable with the term avid viewer as coined by cultural critic Anna Leszkiewicz. To be fair, not all avid viewers are part of a fandom, but all people involved in a TV fandom are avid viewers. An avid viewer is someone with intense interest with all aspects of a show and the people who make it happen. Fandom. Theres always been groups of people who form social groups based on the love of something. From people who dress up to go to Renaissance fairs or Star Trek conventions, to cinephiles and members of. The Dickens Fellowship Old Movie clubs, they all can fall under the idea of fandom. Fandom The fans of a particular person, team, fictional series, etc. What niche TV has done is allow for shows to be directed to a narrower group of people. In time even network television caught on that you no longer had to write a show to appeal to everyone in the 1. A show that created a passionate response and intense discussion could create interest for a larger audience, as well as sustain a decent baseline viewing. Ideally, youd want both, but for subscription cable it was more about the prestige of a well crafted show. For networks whose ratings have been splintering because viewers have so many options, being able to point to a core audience of certain demographics has become crucial. The Internet Social Media. The internet created a space for these avid viewers to read about and discuss their favorite shows. The X Files debuted just as the internet, aka the world wide web, was becoming more mainstream due to browsers like. Netscape.  Its that show and the internet communities created by it that gives us the idea of television fandoms that we use today. Social Media. After our initial love of AOL Netscape died with the onset of Google, the next big shift in the post internet world came withthe onslaught of social media. While Facebook and Twitter werent the first, they really were the game changers. Facebook founded in 2.