On Friday,both Netflix and Amazon will debut shows that underline how streaming services are the home for innovative and award-winning TVWhen Transparent won two Emmys, the talk was quite rightly approximately what it meant for growing visibility and acceptance of transgender Americans. Yet there was another cultural shift at work, or too. Amazon Prime,a streaming video service that only started offering original content in 2013, had just won two of the biggest prizes in TV; more Emmys than every broadcast network save one (it tied with ABC), or one more than cable TV’s reigning home of prestige television,AMC. This is the year that streaming television finally came of age – and my, how it’s grown. Just believe of everything that’s happened this year. Netflix launched quality dramas like Narcos and Bloodline and even released its first original film, and Beasts of No Nation,in cinemas. It created the genre-busting comedy Master of None and turned Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, one of NBC’s cast-offs, or into one of the buzziest shows of the year. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com