Streaming slows to a trickle in 2025
Pay more, watch less: TV’s golden era comes to an end
By Tom Wainwright, Media editor, The Economist
An embarrassment of riches awaits television and film audiences in 2025, as projects that were delayed by a Hollywood strike in 2023 reach the small and big screens at last. New instalments of “Avatar”, “Mission: Impossible” and “Captain America” will jostle for attention at the cinema. At home, viewers will settle down for more of “The White Lotus” and the final chapter of “Stranger Things”.
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This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition of The World Ahead 2025 under the headline “Pay more, watch less”
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