Attention deficit television
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Movies are bombing. Christy Springsteen, Die My Love, LOL Dead, last month has been called Hollywood's worst box office run in decades, and these were prestige films. Tinseltown sees the writing on the wall and is pivoting, making a bet on micro-dramas. Today on Today Explained, we'll explain what they are, but the bold-faced names of it all, Disney, Fox, Alexis Ohanian, Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner, pouring millions of dollars into the teeny-tiny next big thing.
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I'm CT Jones. I am a staff writer at Rolling Stone, where I cover entertainment, culture, and the internet.
What exactly is a microdrama? What a fantastic question.
Thank you. Microdramas are these short, episodic films, and they're filmed portrait mode. And they're meant to be watched and shared primarily on your cell phone. So as you're scrolling, clicking on apps, that's where microdramas appear.
Okay.
Okay, great. And now I have so many more questions. Microdrama, I mean, microdrama is like me texting my sister about my brother. What is it called a microdrama?
Yeah, the whole point of them is that they're short, right? So they're in between films and TV seasons, but there are 60 to 90 episodes, and these episodes can range anywhere from... Four minutes to ten to seven. It depends entirely on the project that you're watching. So that's why they call them micro. But it also refers to kind of the speed and the production. So we're talking about projects that have very, very, very tiny budgets and they have a very, very, very tiny shoot time. So altogether, microdrama. What is the appeal? Yeah, I think one of the really interesting things we've seen about the Internet in the past couple of years is that the way people scroll are changing the ways your attention span works.
So we've already seen in cases like Mad Men. Great, Bob. And Ugly Betty. Hi, that's me. People are watching things on their phone now, and that there is a link between how long people are willing to watch a TV show, even if it's cut up into 100, 200 parts, if it means that they don't have to get off of their phone, go onto their laptop, and log onto the streaming service where they know that that show exists. And it's also created for these kind of attention spans. So, like, you don't have time to probably watch four episodes of Ugly Betty between your commute and the office. But if you're on the subway and you have access to data, you're like, I could watch two 45-second clips of Ugly Betty.
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All right, so what's an example of a microdrama that's super popular? Like, what is the young and the restless microdrama or the Breaking Bad microdrama?
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