Looking back on these past 10 years, there is so much to celebrate. The way we watch TV fundamentally changed in this last decade, and with even more streaming services on the horizon (including Disney+ and Apple TV+), the changes will continue to come. The storytelling and film-quality cinematography (and, honestly, money) started attracting A-list movie stars to the small screen, not because they weren’t viable at the box office anymore, but precisely because they were. Though many showrunners still felt the need to defend their series as being “like a movie,” TV was rightfully being recognized as a medium worthy of artistic respect. ![]() The expansion of these avenues for creativity outside of broadcast networks and cable models though also meant a renaissance for television as a whole, and the opportunity for more diverse stories to be told. We started carrying screens with us everywhere, which meant a proliferation of companies looking to fill that space and our time. Pivot-to-video wasn’t just something happening in the media landscape, it was all around us. Even nontraditional networks like Facebook and YouTube started producing their own scripted content. ![]() Streaming services blossomed and multiplied, as did their original programming. Yes, there were so many great series but also just so many series. ![]() Television in the 2010s was defined by the continuation of the Second Golden Age of Television and the rise of Peak TV.
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