Letter
Experimental Network
4 January 2024
James Meek writes about Peter Biskind’s ‘network bad/cable good’ model of American television (LRB, 4 January). The fundamentals of modern multi-strand quality TV drama like The Sopranos were developed in network TV. Steven Bochco and David E. Kelley were both network TV writers who became showrunners before cable TV even began to commission fiction. Kelley produced both Chicago Hope (1994-2000)...
