How to Make Your Own TV Show (and Get Netflix to Buy It)

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Matt is joined by actor, writer, producer, and director Mark Duplass to discuss the process of independently financing your own television show, as he did with his new show ‘Penelope’ on Netflix, and he makes the case for why more people should be doing this. Additionally, they talk about the biggest differences between the television and film business models, why indie film is so much more popular right now, and how the indie TV model could be lucrative for A-listers (02:19). Matt finishes the show with a prediction about the season premiere of 'Saturday Night Live' (25:47). For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ click here. Email us your thoughts! [email protected] Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Mark Duplass Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:02.6	Independently financed movies have been a hallmark of Hollywood for decades.
1:07.1	There's a whole community around the indie film business with festivals and markets and agency
1:12.0	divisions devoted to packaging and selling these movies. There's far less independently
1:17.6	financed television series. There's TV studios, but you rarely see money cobbled together for a TV
1:23.5	show. Lots of reasons for that. First and foremost, the traditional business model for television
1:28.7	is just different. A studio will often deficit finance a show, meaning they'll pay for the show,
1:34.6	and then the platform that airs it will pay less than that to air it initially. Then the studio will
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