Andrew Miller
speaker
175 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 17 Aug
Andrew Miller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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These ingenious sequences are at once a compliment and a brag.
Your time is so valuable, they flatter the audience, that even the credits will be exquisite.
The brag, meanwhile, is about the show, for which implicitly only a sublime introduction will do.
Their summaries, mood setters, and advertisements, deft enough to intrigue new viewers and resonate with returning ones.
Like the overture to an opera, they are, I think, an integral part of the drama.
Now, some of these shows aired without adverts, freeing up minutes for luxuriant openings.
But today the exigencies of streaming are changing.
Adverts are creeping back, making time scarcer again.
And meanwhile, title sequences are an obstacle to binge watching.
Gorging fans don't need to be reintroduced to a story every hour.
Many of them just want to get on with it.
And thanks to Skip Intro, they can.
Noticing that users were manually fast-forwarding through titles themselves, Netflix divides the button in 2017, and other streamers followed suit.
By twenty twenty-two, Netflix viewers were clicking it a hundred and thirty-six million times a day.
Since then, intro skipping has snowballed.
Across all the output on the BBC's iPlayer, for instance, use of skip intro in March was roughly double the level two years earlier.
It has soared in the past six months.
The underlying impatience, I suppose more than the button itself, is bad news for elaborate opening titles.
But as they dwindle on TV, I think something is being lost.
It's not just that, as in the new series of The Night Manager, they can be the best bit of a show.
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