FX‘s John Landgraf will not be certain the media ecosystem helps tv reveals that run past just some seasons.

“I feel our consideration spans have declined radically and I feel our persistence with issues which might be slightly demanding have gone down,” Landgraf mentioned throughout his annual government session on the Tv Critics Affiliation winter press tour. “It’s one thing I’m actually fearful about within the media ecosystem created by the web.”

The remarks got here after Landgraf gave his annual replace on the variety of scripted collection on tv, together with his information exhibiting that Peak TV has actually peaked. The entire variety of scripted reveals declined 14% between 2022 and 2023, dropping from 600 to 516.

“We’ve radically elevated the price of making tv in season one,” he mentioned. “We introduced numerous great expertise into tv, however there’s been a spiraling and escalating value. That’s a part of what occurs after we make 600 tv reveals.”

Landgraf pointed to the early seasons of FX collection like “It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia” and “The Protect” as examples of reveals with extra modest budgets early of their runs that the community was in a position to renew regardless of lower than stellar rankings to start with resulting from their value factors.

“We might afford to do this and imagine in it,” he mentioned. “It’s more durable to do with one thing tremendous costly.” To Landgraf’s level, “The Protect” ran for seven seasons and almost 100 episodes whereas “All the time Sunny” aired its sixteenth season in 2023.

He additionally gave updates on Ryan Murphy productions like “American Love Story” and future seasons of “American Crime Story,” saying, “All of those questions kind of sit in Ryan world. Clearly, he has his personal methodology for speaking when he needs to, so he’s slightly totally different than all people else. I can inform you he’s engaged on a complete bunch of latest issues for us.”

Landgraf additionally mentioned the brand new “Alien” collection from “Fargo’s” Noah Hawley is presently taking pictures in Thailand with a slated 2025 launch, bearing on how taking pictures for “Alien” may impression future seasons of “Fargo.”

“[“Alien”] is designed to be an ongoing collection,” he mentioned. “Then so far as ‘Fargo,’ it’s a matter of timing as a result of I’m hoping Noah’s going to be engaged on ‘Alien’ and subsequent seasons of ‘Alien’ and actually making an attempt to show that round quick.”