Music Shows Have Run Their Course

Monday, 12 May 2014 | by Pat's Picks

New York Times media writer Bill Carter says after a decade atop the ratings pile, music-based television shows are now in steep decline. The show with the biggest decline of all is American Idol - once a ratings juggernaut so strong rival networks stopped competing with it. Carter says it’s not the first time we’ve burned through a television genre. From westerns to variety shows to prime time game shows, networks have overextended several genres in the past.

SOURCE: New York Times