Sony Pictures TV’s Katherine Pope Touts Return Of Broadcast “Rigor” In Streaming Era, Urges Shorter Breaks Between Seasons — MIA Market
deadline.comSometimes, looking back can help with what’s coming next. That was the message from Sony Pictures Television Studios president Katherine Pope on Wednesday during a keynote interview in Rome at the Italian confab MIA, in which she addressed everything from Season 5 of The Boys to calling for gaps between seasons to shrink.
Asked to apply her experience — which includes a decade at NBCUniversal, long before joining Sony more than two years ago — she said certain principles from the broadcast system could help inform a better way to produce in the future. “There was a sense of time and money in the U.S.
broadcast system,” she said. “You really had to get shows done. You did not have a choice. We’re now seeing the hangover of the boom times, and people will say they don’t know if they can do it for this amount of money or make the schedule.” However, she noted that “some of that rigor that was in the old system is coming back” and added: “That is actually really healthy.
Creative, production budgetary friction is a good thing. It always yields unexpected answers, whether that’s where you’re going to shoot, how many days you’ll take.
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