Netflix chief product officer Neil Hunt said the company is explore streaming mobile-specific cuts of its original movies and TV shows. “It’s not inconceivable that you could take a master [copy] and make a different cut for mobile,” Hunt said. The idea to be would be to create a version of the content with scenes or shots that are more easily visible or immersive on a mobile phone.

Long before Donald Trump's win, issue-heavy TV shows were on the rise. ABC's  “When We Rise” is a tribute to San Francisco’s gay equality movement. This month, Fox will devote 10 hours of prime-time to “Shots Fired,” a star-studded drama that reflects the country’s racial tensions through a fictional police-involved shooting. Also on the docket: a third season of ABC’s “American Crime” that tackles class conflict in North Carolina; Showtime’s “Guerrilla,” a miniseries about attempts to crush the black-power movement in 1970s England  and Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” set in a totalitarian theocracy where women are stripped of …

In the age of President Trump, CNN president Jeff Zucker is rallying staff and viewers around the banner of quality journalism. He told his staff: "...don't let things that the president says or that the White House does throw you off your game."It's an interesting turnabout. During the election, many media observers argued that CNN indulged Trump almost to the exclusion of the rest of the Republican field.