Amazon Studios says:
Though to their credit they allow exceptions if the verisimilitude of the historical or sociological context demands it.
ABC Studios (Disney) has some policies:
(Comes from a pdf linked under "Content") The website is region-locked, so I had to link it through a USA proxy.
The BBC has specific strategies too:
That wasn't a copypasta, I found all the info in about five minutes total by googling.
Whether or not implementing such quotas and strategies is a good, bad, or indifferent thing is another discussion (tbh I'd say indifferent) but to write their existence off as paranoid delusions is demonstrably false.
It's not really the stories that are boring, it's more the characters and pacing. Long form storytelling has its place, but the problem here is in the execution, which sometimes sounds quite appealing :joker: there's just episodes and episodes where noooothiiing happens. The first five episodes could be told in two or three without feeling rushed, y'know?
The characters are also a problem. They're nearly all boring or unlikeable. The best bits are with Elrond, Durin, and Disa. I wish it was just them three having Eleven and Dwarven adventures.
But that's my opinion. It's mirrored elsewhere in both senses of the word :joker: so, eye of the beholder and all that!
