The rise of streaming has created a rich landscape of alternative buyers and production partners, who are now under pressure to make sticky shows and know their own niches very well.
Brad Holcman, the senior director A&E Unscripted & alternative programming, for instance, is an eight year inhabitant of his seat and clearly knowledgeable. He talked through Sixty Days In, in which seven civilians go undercover in prisons for sixty days, even though a prison expert told him that none of these amateur spies would last more than a day.
