TV Outside the Box ─ Trailblazing in the Digital Television Revolution

TV Outside the Box: Trailblazing in the Digital Television Revolution is the latest book from Neil Landau. It explores the new and exploding universe of niche TV and the burgeoning OTT (Over the Top) networks: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Crackle, CW Seed, Vimeo, AwesomenessTV, and many more. Featuring in-depth conversations with game-changing content creators, industry mavericks, and leading cultural influencers,TV Outside the Box is essential reading for anyone interested in the dynamics of a media revolution –while it’s happening. Readers will discover:

• How the new "disruptors" of traditional television models are shaping the future of digital entertainment. You’ll hear directly from the visionaries behind it all – from concept genesis to predictions for the future of streaming platforms; their strategies for acquisitions and development of new original content; and how the revolution is providing unprecedented opportunities for both established and emerging talent.

• What’s different about storytelling for the progressive, risk-taking networks who are delivering provocative, groundbreaking, binge-worthy content without the restraints of the traditional, advertiser-supported programming model. Through interviews with the showrunners, content creators, and producers of dozens of trailblazing series –Orange is the New Black, Transparent, House of Cards, Peaky Blinders,Orphan Black, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, High Maintenance, Mozart in the Jungle, Marvel’s Daredevil, The Man in the High Castle, BoJack Horseman, Grace and Frankie, Happy Valley, Bosch, The Fall, Black Mirrorand many more – you’ll learn how and why the best and the brightest creatives are defining the new digital entertainment age – and how you can, too.

• How streaming has transformed entertainment forever in the U.S., and how digital networks are rapidly expanding around the world with an array of TV series and forthcoming feature films produced and/or directed by A-list talent, and headlined by major movie stars. With audiences in charge of what, when, where, and how they watch television, the future of TV is here and now.

TV Outside the Box is the first book sponsored by NATPE to further their mission of educating and enriching lives through the power of television.

Neil Landau is a bestselling author, producer, award-winning screenwriter and professor at the UCLA Department of Film, Television & Digital Media (his alma mater). Neil’s film and television credits include the cult teen comedyDon't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead; Melrose Place, The Magnificent Seven,Doogie Howser, M.D., The Secret World of Alex Mack, Twice in a Lifetime, MTV'sUndressed, The Young & the Restless, Monarch Cove, and one-hour drama pilots for CBS, ABC, ABC Family, Warner Bros., Disney, Lifetime, and Fremantle. Neil served for several years as Executive Script Consultant in the international divisions of Sony Pictures Television and Columbia Pictures.

His animated movie projects include the Tad: The Lost Explorer (aka Las Adventuras de Tadeo Jones) which earned him a Spanish Academy "Goya" Award and Cinema Writers’ Circle Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (2013). He is currently working on its sequel (in pre-production), along withTadeo #3. Neil co-wrote and is serving as Co-Executive Producer on the new 3D animated featureCapture the Flag (in production) for Paramount. He is also credited as screenwriter on the new animated movie,Sheep & Wolves, for Wizart Animation (The Snow Queen); in production, to be be released in 2016.

Neil is the author of the bestselling books 101 Things I Learned in Film School (Grand Central Publishing, 2010);The TV Showrunner’s Roadmap (Focal Press, 2014); The Screenwriter’s Roadmap (Focal Press, 2012); and the forthcomingTV OUTSIDE THE BOX: Trailblazing in the Digital Television Revolution (Focal Press/Taylor & Francis Publishing, 2016).