THB #287: Years End 1 - The 10 Revenue Streams

As I conceived of today’s newsletter, I thought it would be about everything we don’t know about 2023 and beyond in this industry. The prediction pieces are the same garbage as they often are, endlessly obsessed with mergers that will never happen because they make no sense. (And have to be seriously considered, because making no sense hasn’t stopped others in the past.) That piece may still come.

But other ideas kept popping into my head…

While so many writers, from business side people to the business-challenged aesthete Richard Brody, keep moaning about shows being removed from HBO Max as the end of the known artistic universe - even though there are entire websites devoted to what is coming off of Netflix and Hulu and Amazon - I wondered if they ever considered… How many scripts are optioned every year and have money spent against them and are dropped and will never be made as a result of that money against them that makes them all that more expensive from Step One?

The answer is, l…