From Breaking Bad to Breaking Down: The Decline of Streaming Media's Golden Age

• The introduction of Streaming Media allowed for television with big budgets.
• This effectively created a new genre.
• The advent of the Blockbuster (Jaws)
• Too big to fail.
• Danger zone - Miramax 10 million dollar movies
• Expanse - good shows get cancelled (not big enough)
• Hollywood doesn't know how to make movies anymore
• Franchises

Oscar-winning Czech film director Milos Forman.

• Creativity comes from limitations.
• Decline of quality from Steenbecks to Avid
• Too many choices
• Decline from typewriter to word-processing?
• Desire to create endless franchises, kills story-telling.
• Don't know when to leave well alone.