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29.11.2023 - 11:41 / deadline.com
Sony Pictures Televisions’ Ravi Ahuja has described how the U.S. market had become “too hot” and “inefficient” over recent years, but is now moving towards a healthier “cooling phase.”
During a keynote interview at Content London, SPT’s Chairman of Global Television Studios said the U.S. market was “getting back to normal” two weeks after the SAG-AFTRA deal was unveiled, though it has been a “mad scramble” to get productions back up and running.
“This is an interesting inflection point for our industry,” he added, pointing to Covid, the streaming reset and other market factors. “So many things have happened. It’s a new normal, let’s look at it that way.”
Ahuja said that volumes of programs being ordered had dropped off “a decent amount, even before the strikes.”
He added: “Against the strikes, the ad market contraction around the world and the streaming reset happening at the same time, it was almost as though we ran though this phase that was too hot. Now we’re in a stage where it’s a really cooling off.”
He said these conditions had made it more critical to make “shows of quality” but added Sony Pictures was positioned to deliver more shows in the ilk of The Night Agent, Platonic and The Blacklist.
“We’ll see contraction but we’ll be okay,” he said, before predicting “big tech companies” would look to consolidate or aggregate platforms in the next decade. “Linear TV will exist in eight or nine years but it will be smaller and will vary from market to market.
In response to a question about M&A and deals such as Sony Pictures Television India’s protracted merger with Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd., Ahuja said Sony was “actively” looking at M&A and would “continue to buy and sell things” but was taking a “very
Could we see an engagement ring on Taylor Swift’s finger in the new year? It’s sounding more and more like a possibility!
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Ellise Shafer During the streaming boom, Sony was one of the few big entertainment companies that held back from creating its own platform. And now that the market has cooled down, Ravi Ahuja, chairman of Sony Pictures’ Global Television Studios, sees this as a massive advantage. During a keynote at Content London on Wednesday, Ahuja said that what drew him to Sony in the first place was because while working at Disney and Fox, he “saw firsthand the complexity of operating in that kind of environment.” “Here, it’s not only a very large, independent studio, with the benefit of a lot of resources … but with a very focused mission: make great shows, find the right home,” Ahuja said.
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