Broadway and Netflix falter as microseries boom to $150B

Broadway producers report that big musicals can no longer reliably attract audiences large enough to cover rising production costs, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Netflix investors have discovered that viewers are not returning for second seasons of even its biggest hits, as reported by Slate, undermining the subscription model built on renewal. Meanwhile, microseries—vertical dramas made for phones and increasingly by AI—have become a $150 billion industry outside China, per TheWrap. Philadelphia theaters have adopted pay-what-you-choose ticketing citywide and are comparing effectiveness, as noted by Broad Street Review. A year after Congress eliminated the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, South Dakota Public Broadcasting laid off journalists and canceled shows but has begun to recover, according to NPR. Cinema's supposedly lost decade has proven to be one of its most inventive, driven by technology and desperation, reports The Guardian. Scholars have studied an unfinished short story by Alan Turing, revealing the father of computing as playful, literary, and racier than his reputation, per The Guardian.