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The bumpy road to success: Drama’s most troubled productions
With HBO preparing to debut the much-anticipated Westworld, Stephen Arnell finds that, despite its troubled production history, the show looks certain to be the cable channel’s latest hit.
How to be an SVoD audience sleuth
Netflix and Amazon don’t give out audience figures. So how do we know if their shows are any good? Here are a few ways the industry has attempted to address this question.
Music shows strike a chord with networks
The success of Fox US’s hip-hop drama Empire has inspired an unprecedented array of music-related scripted shows. So this week’s column takes a look at the writers who are riding the crest of this compositional wave.
Netflix nurtures writing talent
Netflix and Amazon are evolving into virtual campuses for some of the TV industry’s most creative writers. This week we look at the scribes behind some of Netflix’s upcoming shows.
Max power
Andy Fry on the team behind big-budget historical copro Maximilian, plus the new show in the works from Ripper Street’s Richard Warlow and the transgender addition to Transparent’s writing staff.