How the internet disrupted TV comedy and changed how comedians gain fame in Hollywood
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Ironically, the point at which the Internet became a player in scripted TV development was during the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike. During the strike, TV and film writers couldn’t write much of anything at all. With all of these writers unable to make money in TV and film, they turned to the relatively new medium of Internet content. And suddenly, network executives found a new landscape in which to discover original content that could be brought to TV (after the strike ended, of course). Читать дальше...