Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.
Listen, a cable series is a beautiful thing because there's such amazing writing happening on television, and it's a schedule that allows you to do a play or two. There's a reason everybody wants that job!
Television is better than it's ever been in history. A lot of stories are being pushed - because of how complicated they are to make - toward Netflix and other channels on cable.
I think television keeps on being a place where writers can go, and if they're successful, they can have their way, and they can have creative freedom.
I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.
The territory has changed, and a lot of really good actors want to do cable series, but they don't necessarily want to do network TV and make the commitment of 22 episodes or whatever. They find that the liberties and the creative freedoms that you get in cable is more interesting to them than the censorship of a network show.
TV is the place that writers want to be.
Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.
I believe what makes great television is wanting to watch particular characters.
Cable television stations in America are now producing such smart, in-depth, non-formula, character-based dramas. Film has turned more and more into big action or cartoons.