01-25-2016, 02:54 AM
(01-24-2016, 08:54 PM)Woodstock link Wrote:Take a look at The Expanse. Reminds me of Babylon 5 from the 90s. Big budget sci fi TV shows will be the next big thing after Game of Thrones success.
The Big Budget part if they are studio based, and not independent or Pay-per-View, means they will all ultimately suffer the same problem, a lack of opportunity for product placement which fails to attract Free-to-Air interests. We already seen such fate in popular shows like Star Gate Universe, where they changed the plot to try and work a duality into the universe so they could show product.
Most major long running serials are heavily subsidized by the likes of Coca-Cola Amatil and Apple, even stuff like Breaking Bad had product-placement-a-plenty by the end. These corporations pay big dollars for space in high rating shows, the space is auctioned off to the highest bidder and if nobody buys in bizarre fakes products fill it instead.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"