The HBO Revolution
Published in French as La Révolution HBO. English edition not yet announced.
“Eleven years that dethroned cinema.”
As the networks plateau and cable spreads, HBO commissions David Chase to write a drama about a depressed mobster. The Sopranos launches a model: the showrunner as king, the straight-to-series order, television for adults.
From Six Feet Under to The Wire, from Deadwood to Game of Thrones, premium cable imposes a grammar the studios will have to imitate or endure. In eleven years HBO redraws American fiction and moves the auteur's premium from the movie theater to cable. Prestige migrates. Hollywood will never recover.
- Format
- Essay
- Pages
- 134
- Release
- Forthcoming
- Series
- Sortie d'Usine
- Languages
- French







