Hi there, my name's Ed Butler. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. Today, a golden era of streaming, big budget film production comes to the small screen. But can it last?

There is just far too much consumer choice at this point. It is just not sustainable for every household to subscribe to 12 different

services and there are hundreds from which to choose. For those of us who only manage lockdown

thanks to an endless diet of streamed TV serials, what does all this mean? In the end, the market

will shake out and there will maybe be three to five global players in streaming.

There's a lot of talk about who else will merge, who will have to throw in the towels and give up their service to a bigger player.

The Streaming Wars, here on Business Daily from the BBC.

All is fair in love and war.

Opulent studio productions.

Like this one, Bridgeton.

Stephanie Bridgeton.

From Netflix, with massive Hollywood scale budgets.

Only now, we're all able to watch it at home on our TV screens.

The time has come for the social season.

Streamed serials have achieved extraordinary global popularity of late,

proving the system as a way to reach global audiences on a massive scale.

And with hundreds of millions of us tuning in, it is a great time

to be in the entertainment business. The future of television production really lies in these

new platforms that have kind of taken over. And there's never been a better time to be interested in a career in the industry.

That's Michael Beza, a veteran TV comedy writer who's now head of film production at the

Vancouver Film School in Canada. When I started out in the early 70s in Los Angeles,

there were only three places for me to sell my wares to. It was ABC, CBS and NBC.

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