When Chaos Came To Town - Episode I: Everybody Wants To Rule The World

There once was a time in this business when they had the eyes of the whole world in theaters! But that wasn't good enough for them, oh no! They had to have control of the homes of the whole world, too. So they opened their big libraries and out came VHS. DVD! STREAMING!
— apologies to Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett and D.M. Marshman Jr.

I have never heard as many people as confused about where the filming television industry is headed. Of course, you have media out front, full of piss and ignorance as ever, endlessly explaining the most simplistic perspectives possible, shifting in the wind as each exec or agent makes a pronouncement between their salad and portioned gluten-free entree.

Truth be told, my head is spinning. And it's not so easy to spin my head.

There have always been moments of WTF in the early moments of paradigm shifts, which is what we are in right now. But there were also some guard rails... mostly about making money.

So let's get right into the meat of it... Making a ni…