Kevin Spacey Speech Urges Broadcast Networks To Adopt Netflix Model

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Alex Moaba

8/26/13

 

Kevin Spacey took the stage at the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival to give the keynote address, called the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture, and delivered a stirring speech about the future of TV.

 

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Spacey also forecasted that evolving methods of content consumption would soon strip away the distinctions between TV, movies and online streaming.

 

"So I predict that in the next decade or two, any differentiation between these platforms will fall away. Is 13 hours watched as one cinematic whole really any different than a film? Do we define film as being something two hours or less? Surely it goes deeper than that. If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theater? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant. The labels are useless. Except perhaps to agents and managers and lawyers, who use these labels to conduct business deals. But for kids growing up now, there is no difference.

 

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