NOBODY KNOWS WHAT TELEVISION IS ANYMORE:

These days, television—whatever it is—is on your phone, on your PlayStation, on YouTube, on your laptop, and even, sometimes, on your actual television, the big thing you bought from Amazon. TV is increasingly indistinct from the world of big-budget Hollywood feature films and also from big tech, which now makes shows, the things you watch, in order to sell phones, watches, diapers, plush toys, and lunch boxes. On occasion, TV even seems to be melding with video games and vice versa. You can consume as much of it as you want, from virtually any place you can imagine, on anything that has a screen. TV is everything now, and everywhere, an amorphous cultural and commercial blob backed by billions in tech and media spending. Its cultural dominance is unchecked by anything except your own time, and it is increasingly tailored to your unique interests and obsessions.

Read the whole thing. There’s a massive amount of product being created now, via all of the major players entering the streaming game, the traditional networks, and the cable outlets. But as Sonny Bunch asked last year at the Weekly Standard*, “Overload: Will any shows from the Golden Age of TV endure?”

* Another product of the digital age which met a swift demise.