In 2015, FX Networks CEO John Landgraf coined the phrase “Peak TV” to describe the overwhelming amount of TV available on broadcast, cable and streaming platforms. That year, a then-record 422 scripted series aired on those outlets.
But Peak TV still isn’t close to peaking, according to new estimates from FX’s research team that Landgraf unveiled today at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour: in 2017, a whopping 487 scripted series aired on broadcast, cable and streaming outlets.
That’s 32 more shows— a 7 percent increase —than the 455 scripted series that aired in 2016. Those numbers don’t include the 750-some unscripted series that also air each year.
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