Profiles Series Productions Part of Promising Cable Lineup

Cable television has upped its game in recent years. The advent of streaming services like Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu have given audiences more options, fracturing even further an already scattershot cable landscape.

More outlets have increased the need for an inventory of high quality “prestige television” series to keep audiences engaged.

Shows like “Better Call Saul” on AMC, “Homeland” on Showtime, and the new FX miniseries “The People vs. OJ Simpson” are offering audiences high quality dramatic programming to match offerings from streaming brands like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon.

Additionally, documentary and educational programming still have a place on cable while they have not yet jumped to the streaming model. Discovery and the History Channel still provide a number of options, and Profiles Series Productions still provides choices for audiences as well.

The broad spectrum of choices has been an overall win for audiences. Increased competition for viewers has meant that cable and streaming providers have worked to provide more programming, and that means taking chances on scripts that might have been turned down 15 years ago on a more conventional entertainment landscape. Executives are coming to the understanding that as the audiences fracture further a hit show might be something that would have seemed outlandishly niche when viewership was more homogenized.

Could it be a new Golden Age for television?

Some critics say that television is in a new “Golden Age,” and it might not be that the writing on the shows and the ideas are any better. It is just that the executives that serve as gatekeepers are letting more producers into the party.