Always Be Watching

Always Be Watching

Duffers leaving Netflix for Paramount confirmed. What does this mean for TV?

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Dan Barrett
Aug 19, 2025
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Screen culture feels like it lost its heartbeat a couple of years ago.

TV picked up the baton from film in terms of mainstream cultural pervasiveness in the 2010s, fuelled largely by Netflix and the other streamers & cable outlets pumping out hundreds of scripted shows each year.

Peak TV we called it.

In the last couple of years, post-COVID, the volume h…

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