After Kevin Spacey attracted headlines last week with his MacTaggart lecture in Edinburgh, Raymond Snoddy looks in more detail at what he said – and wonders how much of a threat the likes of Netflix really pose to cable operators.
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Speaking at the 2013 Edinburgh International Television Festival, Spacey said that shows such as Breaking Bad and The Sopranos were “inescapable evidence that the King of television is the creative”, and that “revolutionary programming” must be kept alive.
The news comes alongside the announcement that Netflix has reached an exclusive deal with Weinstein Co. for the film producers’ film catalogue starting in 2016.