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In the span of a single generation, the definition of "entertainment" has undergone a radical metamorphosis. For decades, the rhythm of popular media was dictated by schedules: the Friday night blockbuster, the Thursday night sitcom, the morning paper. Today, that rhythm has been shattered by an endless, on-demand stream of content that follows us from our living rooms to our pockets. Launching a TV show required securing a prime-time
We have moved from the era of scarcity—where a few channels fought for our attention—to the era of abundance, where the scarcest commodity is no longer content, but attention itself.
The most successful entertainment content will come from hybrid ecosystems: a producer makes a TikTok series, which gets adapted into a podcast, which gets optioned by Netflix for a film. The line between "professional" and "user-generated" will vanish completely.