![]() ANNA DELVEY DOCUMENTARY HBO SERIESCarole,” a Peacock series drawn from a Wondery podcast about the same larger-than-life characters captured in Netflix’s hit “Tiger King,” who were also featured in two earlier magazine stories “Inventing Anna,” a Netflix series about the socialite scammer Anna Sorokin (a.k.a. ANNA DELVEY DOCUMENTARY HBO MOVIEGreta Gerwig is slated to direct a Barbie movie whose IMDb summary read, for a time, “Barbie lives in Barbie Land and then a story happens.” This fall, the creator of DeuxMoi, an Instagram account devoted to the world’s least scandalous gossip, will publish a novel about running an Instagram gossip account, which HBO Max has already optioned.Ī recent crop of based-on-a-true-story streaming series has arrived onscreen after cycling through various combinations of print, documentary, and podcast. (“Gossip Girl” already, “Scrubs” imminently.) There are sequels there are spinoffs there are live-action retellings there are brand extensions that verge on the mystifyingly abstract. There are reboots, dark and gritty or comic and winking, of properties that have barely had time to recede into nostalgia. There are sprawling franchises (Marvel, “Star Wars,” “Game of Thrones,” “Harry Potter”) that cater to legions of already devoted fans. Today’s entertainment marketplace is defined by its faith in the limitless potential of preëxisting intellectual property. “So if we found one story a day,” Firstman says, “we can have eight hundred and seventy years of content every year.” Playing “an exec at a streaming service,” he describes how he found “this amazing story,” which is already the subject of “an extremely successful podcast.” His eyes grow wide as he imagines how events that happened in a single day might spawn two TV shows and yet more podcasts. The comedian Jordan Firstman conjured this ceaseless churn in a recent video. Eventually, it will be someone’s job, somewhere, to write the TV recaps. ![]() Now it’s a TV show, a docuseries-no, a scripted series-no, a docuseries destined to become the basis for a scripted show. It’s that story that was all over the news a couple years back, first as a magazine article and then as a podcast, or maybe it was the other way around. You’ve heard it having heard it is the point. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before-or, actually, don’t. ![]()
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