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    Peak Television

    The TV business is like the oil business -- we keep pumping shows out of the ground until there're just too many shows and the price collapses. We need a show business OPEC.

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    By Rob Long • Sep 9, 2015 • 3m Listen

    There is too much television on television, a television network president said recently, after expanding his television network to three television networks. But he's right, of course. There's a lot of television on television – too much to watch it all, which we all know. I love that show on AMC, Turn. It's great! About spies in the Revolutionary War. It's really great – I haven't seen it. Not really. But I have compulsively saved on my DVR because I'm pretty sure it's great and plan at some point – maybe when I'm bedridden with some kind of awful disease – to get all into it, which means I'll just have to push whatever else is there back a bit, and get into that a little later...

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