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Agents and Indie Producers Argue Incentives Alone Won’t Fix Hollywood’s Ills
Source: Variety · Published

It doesn’t mean much to anyone under 45, but for older folks in Hollywood, the term “fin-syn” evokes a golden age of mansions, yacht parties and cutting-edge TV. The FCC’s “financial interest and syndication” rules forced TV networks to buy shows from superproducers like Norman L
It doesn’t mean much to anyone under 45, but for older folks in Hollywood, the term “fin-syn” evokes a golden age of mansions, yacht parties and cutting-edge TV. The FCC’s “financial interest and syndication” rules forced TV networks to buy shows from superproducers like Norman Lear and Grant Tinker rather than making them in-house. And […]
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