More money, more viewers, more glamour: how TV overtook film as a creative force

From the deeper, richer characters of TV writing to its trouncing of dwindling box-office receipts, the small screen is overturning a decades-old myth: that cinema is the superior genre For decades, television found it difficult to shake its reputation as cinema's poorer cousin. Sure, television was exciting - as the box in the corner of your room, it had a familiar intimacy that was hard to replicate - but it couldn't hold a candle to the money, the glamour, the flat-out star power of the movie...