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As a young film student I was once going to a film industry meeting on behalf of my professor who was fed up with TV executives at that point. It was essentially a fancy dinner with all kinds of people from the German TV industry explaining why the stuff they do is so bad and why it has to be. It was incredibly fatalistic.

Money quote of the evening: "Our average viewer is between 60 and 65 and they are not 100% there mentally when viewing, so it needs to be so simple that you can still follow along while you are ironing your shirts."

Nobody there believed they were making good entertainment, everbody in fact hated it and yet they all said it has to be that way. Theh knew they are losing the young audiences, but didn't know what to do.