Cable TV has developed one of the most clever business models in our modern economy. (…)AMC(…) tweaked its business and began offering two or three hours of original programming on a few dozen nights a year. (…)This business model, perhaps as much as artistic creativity, is responsible for TV’s current golden age. Networks have effectively entered into a quality war. Basic-cable channels have to broadcast shows that are so good that audiences will go nuts when denied them.
