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Jon Stewart Says Streamers Like Apple and Amazon Are Turning Writers’ Rooms Into ‘Ruthlessly Efficient Content Factories’: ‘I Can’t Function Like That’
Jon Stewart says Silicon Valley is 'changing the ethos' of Hollywood as streamers like Apple and Amazon turn writers' rooms into 'content factories.'
“The ethos of legacy entertainment is: we’ve created this incredibly eccentric business, where you need an agent and a manager and a lawyer, and they’re going to take about 60% of what you make, but without them there’s nothing you can do! What they believe now is the auteur system, which has always existed within film and TV, and then this idea of ruthlessly efficient content factories, where what matters is the real estate and not the individual creative.” By securing these requirements, the writers aim to preserve the pipeline for junior staffers to gain experience on shows and rise through the ranks to eventually become showrunners.
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