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Marvel's Agents of SHIELD star Clark Gregg says the streaming landscape is changing too fast for creators: “It’s a strange time in the business”
Former MCU actor Clark Gregg says pitching for streaming services is harder than pitching for television shows
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There’s no doubt that the television landscape has changed since Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. joined the MCU and then was (kinda) removed from continuity by Marvel Studios. Some of the biggest and most talked-about shows are coming from streaming services instead of traditional network television. Netflix has Stranger Things, Disney+ has The Mandalorian, and Paramount+ has Dexter: Resurrection. The days of 22-episode seasons are slowly going extinct in favor of limited series that run for 8-10 episodes every other year.
Clark Gregg, who played Phil Coulson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has noticed the shift. Gregg has been pitching some projects of his own, but he’s found that it’s harder to pitch for streaming services because of how quickly the tides change.
“It’s a strange time in the business,” Clark Gregg tells Popverse in a New York Comic Con interview. “I think there’s been a little bit of a contraction. I’m hearing that it’s kind of tough to set something up right now, more so than it was three or four years ago. I don’t think it hurts any, but I think these days you’ve got to have something that feels like something people want to see and a really solid proof of concept.”
“It feels like there’s a mood shift, and very often one will get a memo of here’s what this streamer’s buying and here’s what that streamer’s buying right now, and I always found it perplexing, because by the time you write something to that, they’ve already shifted. There certainly is a moment where lots of people want something very procedural, and it’s not really the way my brain works, even though I’ve spent a fair amount of time with it.”
For more, check out the full interview with Clark Gregg below.
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