ust over 10 years ago, a TV series debuted that would help set in train a revolution in the industry. Although to call House of Cards a “TV” series feels a little off. Yes, the Kevin Spacey-starring political drama did appear on people’s TV screens, and it was serialised, but in other ways it was something entirely new. It wouldn’t be scheduled to air in weekly chunks on an existing channel, but instead would be available to be streamed in one go, without commercial breaks and over high-speed internet to the subscribers of the online video platform of a mail-order DVD subscription company called
