This article is on top of the home page of The New York Times today:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/business/media/greed-passion-lust-betrayal-and-the-olympics-in-between.html
It’s an interesting read.
What’s fascinating about these shows is how awful the scripts, and sometimes acting, are, but how gorgeous the sets, costumes, and cinematography can be, which is quite often, in a big majority, the case.