By Lisa Richwine
PASADENA, California – The number of scripted television series in the United States declined by 14% in 2023, FX network chief John Landgraf said on Friday, after a decade-long explosion of shows fueled by the streaming TV wars.
The chairman of FX Content and Productions coined the term “peak TV” as he tallied the rise of programming when traditional media companies started chasing Netflix Inc in 2013.
Landgraf said on Friday it could now be called “peaked TV.” FX research counted 516 original scripted series last year, down from 600 in 2022. Hollywood’s strikes last year contributed to the drop, Landgraf said, but added that he believed the reduction likely was under way even before the work stoppages.
“I finally predicted correctly, after a number of sincere but premature guesses, that we had started to see a decline,” he said at a Television Critics Association event. — Reuters
