bushwackerbob wrote: ↑3 years ago
The platform that these shows are on matters Ava as well as content. If your yardstick for the quality of programming for these hour dramas is Emmy Award nominations, based on how industry insiders who are actually in the business judge their contemporaries in the last five years or so, then FX definitely wins that battle. Have you actually checked out FOX's actual slate these days? They seem to have slowly shifted away from the production of these hour long dramas in favor of more lame reality shows and live sports with the addition of Thursday night NFL football, Smackdown (I know, not real sports) and baseball and college football on Saturday nights. That is 3 out of 4 nights. They are not creating many major hits nowadays such as 24 or X-Files, and those days seem gone. If you don't realize how good some of these stellar shows on FX are, then you don't know what you are missing. FOX in my subjective opinion is a virtual wasteland now when it comes to hour long dramas, and that is why they cancel these garbage shows after one season. Just because these shows appear on a smaller and less seen platform does not mean that many of these shows are second tier series. You should check some of these shows out, I think you would change your mind about classifying these shows as "second tier" shows. Just because a show has a bigger budget does not automatically mean that it will be successful. There are many shows on basic cable that have modest budgets in comparison to the big 4, and they are deemed rather successful such as Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Suits, the Walking Dead, and others. I will take FX's slate over FOX primetime slate any day of the week.
G'Day mate
Not sure what is your definition of "Quality" show, but in the industry, we used a scale with the matrix of production budget, cast, and project scope to measure the quality of a production, whether it was primetime or secondary. It have nothing to do with who produce the content. HBO/Dreamworks paid 100 millions to produce The Pacific, even with mostly an unknown cast, they are primetime show, just because it come from a Cable Network, it does not make a show second tier by default.
However, what I was saying is that most show Fox Television produce are secondary, because of its budget and project scope. Not because of it was for a Cable network. That goes into the production quality, not related to anything else. Fox seldom dump budget and produce Primetime content, even X-File, the most famous Fox show, its start with a low to medium budget with a then unknown cast.
On the other hand, whether a show hits or successful have no relation with them being Primetime or Second tier, a Prime Time show with hundred of millions production budget can be a disappointment, while a second tier show with thousand of dollars production budget can be a hit.
And finally, awards are not really a good measure for quality, especially these day, because award are either too commercial driven or too political correct. If you ask any movie or TV critics, they mostly say most show who gets an award does not usually deserve one. Those are more show gimmick than actually reflecting the show quality...… Just look at how Parasite won the Best Picture in this year Oscar, while it is indeed a very good film, but most people I know who worked in the industry in the US and here in Oz think they are pushing it to win because AMPAS need to be shown to be "more inclusive" which is coming from years, if not decade of protest for AMPAS being too commercial sell out to Hollywood...…
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