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TV’s golden age loses its shine as it’s tarnished by austerity

The good old days are over as studios will spend less money on quality productions and special effects and do less work on location.

Crikey

Fortune favors the books: Our editors' favorite non-fiction of 2023 pulls back the curtain on a year of major transition

These non-fiction books explain not only how the algorithm of life and business are changing, but who the humans are who created this world.

Fortune

The peak TV revolution has curdled into a wasteland and Netflix is ‘unwatchable,’ legendary cultural critic Peter Biskind says. He’s afraid of what comes next

Streaming is remaking itself into the image of old Hollywood. "The difference between streaming and the networks is crumbling," says entertainment historian Peter Biskind.

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Book Review: ‘Pandora’s Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV’

Peter Biskind’s book on how peak TV came to be, and what happened when Netflix entered the game

Broadcasting & Cable

Pandora’s Box by Peter Biskind review – essential viewing

A sweeping but gossipy behind-the-scenes look at the off-screen dramas that made prestige TV

The Guardian - UK

‘A recipe for blandness’: critic Peter Biskind on why quality television is in chronic decline

The author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls has turned his gaze from Hollywood to prestige television, arguing that a golden age of TV that began with The Sopranos has been ruined by corporate greed

The Guardian - UK

William Friedkin obituary

American director behind two of the great film cult classics of the 1970s: The French Connection and The Exorcist

The Guardian - UK

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Badlands at 50: Why it’s still a killer film

Terrence Malick’s debut was shot half a century ago, but, says Geoffrey Macnab, it remains such a disarming film because it’s light-spirited and playful when you least expect it

The Independent UK

The Guide #50: Cinemas were due a post-pandemic rebound – but this summer, there’s simply nothing on

In this week’s newsletter: while films like Elvis and Nope have done reasonably well, the box office bounty we were promised hasn’t appeared – why?

The Guardian - UK

Bob Rafelson obituary

Screenwriter, director and co-creator of the Monkees who had a 1970 hit with his film Five Easy Pieces

The Guardian - UK

Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence by Ken Auletta – review

This detailed account of the film producer’s downfall is the ghastly story of a man who felt free to trample on others

The Guardian - UK

How Coppola nearly refused 'Godfather' offer 50 years ago

Los Angeles (AFP) - Released 50 years ago this week, "The Godfather" broke all box office records, won best picture at the Oscars and introduced millions of fans to a world of mafia bosses, murder-for-hire and cannoli.

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