\n\tIf the period from the mid-2010s to about 2022 was the Peak TV Era, the industry is currently \u2014\u00a0and firmly \u2014 in the midst of its Downslope Days.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe number of original series running on networks and streaming services in 2025 was down for the third straight year since a high in 2022. According to a year-end report from data firm Luminate, 1,122 shows premiered last year, an 11 percent drop from the 1,266 premieres in 2024. Since hitting a high of 1,695 shows in 2022, per Luminate, the TV landscape (excluding live sports and news programming) has shrunk by a third.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe declines were distributed across all platforms, with streaming, cable and broadcast series counts all falling by between 8 and 21 percent. Broadcast networks fell by the largest percentage, taking a 21 percent drop from 196 shows in 2024 to 154 last year \u2014 though the latter number is even with 2023. Luminate notes that the dual labor strikes of 2023 pushed a number of shows that would have premiered in the fall of that year into 2024, so that year\u2019s count might be somewhat inflated.<\/p>\n
\n\tStreaming shows \u2014 including both SVOD services and free platforms declined from 653 in 2024 to 584 last year, a dip of about 11 percent. Cable slipped by just under 8 percent from 417 shows to 384.<\/p>\n
\n\tAmong the biggest SVOD services, HBO Max had the steepest drop in originals, falling by half (32 to 16). Two streamers, Prime Video (59 shows, up from 42 in 2024) and Disney+ (14, four more than in 2024) increased their show counts, while Apple TV was even at 37. Netflix debuted 133 shows in 2025, eight fewer than a year earlier; Hulu fell off by just three shows (48 to 45); Paramount+ declined by 10 (36 to 26), and Peacock by seven (38 to 31). Free streaming services had 13 series premiere last year vs. 18 in 2024.<\/p>\n
\n\tShows produced outside the U.S., like Squid Game and Adolescence \u2014\u00a0to name two of the bigger streaming series of 2025 \u2014\u00a0filled some of the gap, but imports also fell off some last year compared to 2024. Of nine countries \u2014 Germany, Argentina, Mexico, Japan, Spain, France, India, the United Kingdom and South Korea \u2014\u00a0Luminate identified as providing multiple shows to streamers, only Argentina\u2019s count increased year to year. South Korea supplied the most shows to U.S. SVOD platforms with more than 40.<\/p>\n
\n\tLuminate is owned by The Hollywood Reporter\u2019s parent company, Penske Media Corporation, and Eldridge as part of a joint venture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the period from the mid-2010s to about 2022 was the Peak TV Era, the industry is currently…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,133573,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-250274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-production-news","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}