After 17 days, the Television Critics Associationâs summer press tour has come to a close.
During the past two-and-a-half weeks, several dozen broadcast, cable and streaming outlets shared their programming plans for this fall.
The semi-annual TCA press tour always offers an illuminating glimpse at the current state of the TV industry.
And while the networks addressed many of our biggest questions going into press tour, their presentations had a more concentrated focus than usual: several of the biggest outlets took shots at Netflix and made the case for why they are a better option than the streaming behemoth.
Technically, only a few of them directly called out Netflix, with several others more generally referencing âothersâ or âcompetitors,â but to writers and critics in the Beverly Hilton ballroom, there was no doubt about which outlet they were targeting.
That was due not only to Netflixâs position as the TV industryâs biggest disruptor of the past few years, but also because they are ready to pounce now that Netflixâs U.S. subscribers fell slightly last quarter for the first time ever.