Animation is not a genre this data is ruined for that reason alone imo
I like the correlation between reality tv and horror.
That’s cool! Comedy and Drama pretty dominant. The Greeks were into something đźŽ
Talk show rates had to be higher on the 90s. Something’s not adding up here.
Though this data is interesting I feel there would be better ways to represent it that would help put the real size of each genre in perspective. It looks like there is a top to bottom in market share size ordering here but it gives no visual sense that horror is 1% and comedy is 15%
Peaks are so fascinating. Like, the Crime genre peaking what looks like late-1950s-1960; I remember Peter Gunn show came end of 1950s and that did the whole noir crime thing
I wish they had made the y axis uniform. It would make it easier to compare
Which category does Sitcom fall into
Apparently there’s not a lot of families anymore, or all family members just watching their own device.
So you’re telling me family shows are replaced with reality shows? And Westerns, well..
I’ve always been fascinated about the fact westerns were so huge for a couple of decades then suddenly vanished. There has never been another such specific genre to get such widespread appeal; not the colonial era genre, not the civil war genre, not the WWII genre — why were westerns so big?? And to the extent that they received the accolade of being a major genre in their own right. The closest we could maybe compare against is the superhero mania of the last couple of decades, but even that is not bestowed with its own genre.
The reality tv curve explains everything.
I miss when VH1 and Music Television played music!
The animation spike is wonderful
There are so many serious animated shows that are not just made for kids these days, and it’s great.
So many stories can’t really be told in a live action without being prohibitively expensive or just bad.
So it looks like there isn’t going to be much of a modern audience for a family western musical.
Pour one out for science fiction…
Well, I knew the genre wasn’t doing that great in the 21st century, but I had no idea…
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Data: iMDB
Tool: Tableau
Check out the [Interactive version](https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/ryansoares/viz/TrendsinTVShowGenres/TrendsinTVShowGenres) to switch the axis to uniform for all genres to allow comparisons between genres. The image posted has independent axis ranges so you cannot compare across genres well, as the intent is to compare yearly within a genre.
Animation is not a genre this data is ruined for that reason alone imo
I like the correlation between reality tv and horror.
That’s cool! Comedy and Drama pretty dominant. The Greeks were into something đźŽ
Talk show rates had to be higher on the 90s. Something’s not adding up here.
Though this data is interesting I feel there would be better ways to represent it that would help put the real size of each genre in perspective. It looks like there is a top to bottom in market share size ordering here but it gives no visual sense that horror is 1% and comedy is 15%
Peaks are so fascinating. Like, the Crime genre peaking what looks like late-1950s-1960; I remember Peter Gunn show came end of 1950s and that did the whole noir crime thing
I wish they had made the y axis uniform. It would make it easier to compare
Which category does Sitcom fall into
Apparently there’s not a lot of families anymore, or all family members just watching their own device.
So you’re telling me family shows are replaced with reality shows? And Westerns, well..
I’ve always been fascinated about the fact westerns were so huge for a couple of decades then suddenly vanished. There has never been another such specific genre to get such widespread appeal; not the colonial era genre, not the civil war genre, not the WWII genre — why were westerns so big?? And to the extent that they received the accolade of being a major genre in their own right. The closest we could maybe compare against is the superhero mania of the last couple of decades, but even that is not bestowed with its own genre.
The reality tv curve explains everything.
I miss when VH1 and Music Television played music!
The animation spike is wonderful
There are so many serious animated shows that are not just made for kids these days, and it’s great.
So many stories can’t really be told in a live action without being prohibitively expensive or just bad.
So it looks like there isn’t going to be much of a modern audience for a family western musical.
Pour one out for science fiction…
Well, I knew the genre wasn’t doing that great in the 21st century, but I had no idea…