The article is pretty light on AMC's mis-steps. Just as an example, The Walking Dead:
First they let go of Frank Darabont who probably could have used a chill pill and a secretary between him and Outlook, not firing. Then they started wild deviations from a much-beloved series (I even bought my mother the huge printed tomes, she loved the show), and more and more decisions to milk it and send it off the rails at the same time. Show should have ended some time back, and spinoffs why?
They really hamstrung Shudder. About their only smart move with Shudder is having Joe Bob Briggs on. Shudder's horror catalog is only about two or three times the size of what you can get on Netflix. I haven't done a really heavy analysis of overlaps, but Tubi has a shocking amount of stuff Shudder has on. But sure, let's fire a lot of good people at Shudder instead of working on picking up some good stuff to watch.
Three months, ten million dollar severance. Nice work if you can get it, I suppose, but budget-wise ...
They absolutely need to have one overarching team working on all of their apps, because various apps they own fumble differently on different devices. That's a lot of duplicated effort when it could be shared.
Then there's Interview with the Vampire. Everything I have read suggests that it has a bad case of "I Need to Put My Stamp on This" from one or more creatives, starting with the cast. Claudia has been aged-up, again, which more than a little negates the whole purpose behind the character, and Daniel ... I don't even know what to say. I like Bogosian but he isn't the guy for the part by a few decades.
First they let go of Frank Darabont who probably could have used a chill pill and a secretary between him and Outlook, not firing. Then they started wild deviations from a much-beloved series (I even bought my mother the huge printed tomes, she loved the show), and more and more decisions to milk it and send it off the rails at the same time. Show should have ended some time back, and spinoffs why?
They really hamstrung Shudder. About their only smart move with Shudder is having Joe Bob Briggs on. Shudder's horror catalog is only about two or three times the size of what you can get on Netflix. I haven't done a really heavy analysis of overlaps, but Tubi has a shocking amount of stuff Shudder has on. But sure, let's fire a lot of good people at Shudder instead of working on picking up some good stuff to watch.
Three months, ten million dollar severance. Nice work if you can get it, I suppose, but budget-wise ...
They absolutely need to have one overarching team working on all of their apps, because various apps they own fumble differently on different devices. That's a lot of duplicated effort when it could be shared.
Then there's Interview with the Vampire. Everything I have read suggests that it has a bad case of "I Need to Put My Stamp on This" from one or more creatives, starting with the cast. Claudia has been aged-up, again, which more than a little negates the whole purpose behind the character, and Daniel ... I don't even know what to say. I like Bogosian but he isn't the guy for the part by a few decades.
AMC needs to get tight and smart.