Citations:Peak TV

Proper noun

 * 2015, Tim Goodman, quoted in "Fall TV Face-Off", The Hollywood Reporter, 30 October 2015, page 92:
 * With its over-the-top premise and engaging trailers, the first hour was poised to be the perfect Peak TV pilot — and it wasn’t bad.
 * 2016, James Wolcott, "Too-Much-To-See TV", Vanity Fair, January 2016, page 68:
 * Are we approaching maximum eyeball overload? This August, John Landgraf, C.E.O. of FX, the feisty network that sprang Louie, The Americans, and the now departed motorcycle thrasher, Sons of Anarchy, on the unsuspecting, caused a ripple at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour when he projected that in 2016 more than 400 original scripted series will be produced, initiating a tipping point at which “Peak TV” begins to subside and contraction begins
 * 2018, Johanna Schneller, "Twin Peaks return feels familiar", Metro (Edmonton, AB), 25 May 2017, page 16:
 * Watching this, you realize how many tropes pioneered by show creator David Lynch have seeped into Peak TV: introducing characters without explanations.
 * 2018, Andrew Husband, "Binge this now: Why you should watch Amazon's 'Goliath'", Metro (New York, NY), 12 June 2018, page 21:
 * This isn’t the most important reason, of course, but with “Peak TV” in full swing these days, time is precious, and the less time a new piece of entertainment takes, the better.
 * 2019, Andrew Husband, "What to watch on TV this weekend", Metro (Boston, MA), 10 January 2019 - 13 January 2019, page 5:
 * That means we're in for the never-ending deluge of "Peak TV" thanks to broadcast, cable and premium networks, streaming giants like Netflix, and hopeful upstarts like Facebook Watch.
 * 2019, Andrew R. Chow, "Ang Lee wants to change the way you see", Time Magazine, 21 October 2019 - 28 October 2019, page 88:
 * He also believes that the shared movie-theater experience still possesses an unmatched power—and that in the Peak TV era, 3-D might be a key way to lure audiences out of their living rooms.
 * 2020, Radhika Jones, "Editor's Letter", Vanity Fair, June 2020, page 16:
 * Peak TV has meant a surfeit of shows for a growing but ever more fractured universe of consumers.
 * 2021, Judy Berman, "A whole world worth watching", Time Magazine, 15 February 2021 - 22 February 2021, page 110:
 * And as a vital part of the long-tail economy that is Peak TV, shows from abroad have won over Americans who’ve dropped cable and now stuff their streaming queues with romantic Korean dramas or chilly Nordic thrillers or kinetic Japanese anime.
 * 2021, Alan Sepinwall, "The Year That TV Saved Us", Rolling Stone, May 2021, page 36:
 * Relatively speaking, there have been better overall stretches of Peak TV than the one that carried us through Covid.