Yu’re going to see, maybe, reining in some costs in comedy across the board as an industry.Whichever side of that conundrum you fall on, there's little question as to whether the series ably fed the appetite of a very specific television demographic. You’re going to see some contraction there. “Comedy budgets got a little bit out of whack compared to how they perform. Sometimes that’s because they perform better internationally, he notes, which is why comedies usually had smaller budgets than dramas. With a drama, even at that higher expense, they tend to move the needle a little bit more.” There’s been so much competition for actors, writers, directors, stage space and materials,” he says. “Everybody knows that there’s been such an arms race in content in general. Half-hours have become too expensive, he says. Meanwhile, one space Bloys is keeping an eye on is comedy, where he believes the industry will have to make a course correction. “I will tell you, I saw the first day of dailies with Kate and she just inhabits her character and is so good. Projects under way include “The Palace,” starring Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant and Andrea Riseborough - yes, the Oscar nominee who was suddenly on everyone’s radar this winter. Something still in development is director Bong Joon-ho’s TV adaptation of his Oscar-winning film “Parasite” - although there’s nothing new to report. A return to “ True Blood” was considered, with HBO developing a few scripts, “but nothing that felt like it got there.” But it is hard for me to imagine doing one without him.”Īlso not in the cards are the rumored “Six Feet Under” revival, which Bloys said was never really in the works. If Damon ever wants to revisit it, he knows that it’s an open door. I would put it in the pantheon of HBO greats. It was a very special limited series for us. “If he doesn’t think there’s a story that he wants to put his heart and soul into, it’s hard for me to think that it would be worth doing. “‘Watchmen’ was so much his creation,” Bloys says. But if said I want to do this, then I would follow Jesse’s lead.”īloys offers the same answer when asked whether there would ever be another installment of the Emmy-winning “Watchmen.” He has no interest in bringing it back with anyone other than executive producer Damon Lindelof. It doesn’t seem like a natural thing to me. It doesn’t seem to me that there’s something in ‘Succession’ where you would go, ‘Let’s follow just this kid’ or whatever. There’s a huge history, a lot of different families, a lot of different wars and battles. What are you doing?’ That said, I think that there’s something about the universe that George created that lent itself to. I had some people internally saying, ‘This is crazy. “I always say ‘never say never.’ When we started talking about doing a ‘Thrones’ prequel that was something that HBO had historically never done. That means, should this upcoming season of “Succession” be its last, Bloys is not entertaining a spinoff. While “Mare of Easttown” was a breakout limited series success for the pay cabler in 2021, creator Brad Ingelsby - who has an exclusive overall deal at the network - is busy creating a new crime-centric show for HBO rather than a “Mare” sequel. “Game of Thrones” is obviously a franchise that has legs at HBO, but Bloys is cautious in going down that road too often - even as some of his competitors double- and triple-down on popular series. You want to do one that everybody’s really proud of and excited about.” Among potential spin-offs is one featuring Kit Harrington reprising his role as Jon Snow Bloys says there’s nothing to report on that one, but it’s still in development. “It takes a while to get one that hits the mark,” he adds. There’s probably a natural limit to how many fans want, but I’m open to any as long as we feel really good about the scripts and the prospects for a series.” You have to develop a lot of things, try things. “To do that again is going to take the same amount of effort. “Remember to get ‘House of the Dragon’ following up from ‘Game of Thrones,’ we developed a lot of shows, shot a pilot, developed a bunch of scripts and we got ‘House of the Dragon,'” Bloys notes. But would the eventual plan be to have a steady stream of “Thrones” series to avoid these gaps?
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