Congratulations to michaelidato who won the TV Industry Feature award at the Los Angeles Press Club National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards for his article about netflix's House of Cards altered the course of TV history. You can read it here:
Like the complex political story which has driven its narrative for six seasons, Netflix's first and arguably greatest scripted dramaBorn into the nebulous world of streaming television – the medium's firstborn, so to speak – it dances around algorithms and unpublished data.
Even less certain is whether it is indeed a television show or, when all 13 episodes of one season can be watched consecutively and immediately, whether it is a very long motion picture; the audience tend to the former; the show's American re-creator Beau Willimon tends towards the latter.
Major studios were already building computer frameworks to support content storage as digital playout systems for their channels, while companies like Netflix were looking to expand their home entertainment product to one delivered via broadband, with the view to eventually replacing their physical DVD libraries with one in the cloud.
With the birth of its firstborn child, Netflix revolutionised the business, transformed itself from a home entertainment mail order service with a sideline in streaming into a proper disruptor, and shattered the outward-facing studio distribution model which has glued television's transactional business together since the 1950s.Beau Willimon, House of Cards' American re-creator.was not a television Lego brick aimed squarely at the centre of its mail-order audience.
To lead it behind and in front of the camera, Netflix turned to the film industry: Oscar nominated writer Beau Willimon, Oscar winning director David Fincher and Oscar winning actor Kevin Spacey.The much-discussed migration of film talent to TV, which now has Jane Fonda in
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