How Long Can These Good TV Times Continue?

[Commentary] There is some question as to how long these good times can continue to roll. The number of current scripted TV series is now around 400. The quantity of fancy, expensive television is growing exponentially; the size of the total potential audience and the number of hours in the day in which they can watch are not. For us, there is no such thing as too much good TV. For the business, it may be another story.

[Robert Thompson, the director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture, is a professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University]