Breaking Bad gets away with focusing on Walter White's internal struggle because it was built into the show from the pilot, whereas with Weeds it didn't take the forefront until much later and so many of its existing viewers were unable to adapt to the paradigm shift.
As with the other deals Snap has made for Shows, this is about A+E building an audience out of Snapchat's young user base, but also connecting with its existing viewers who are already on the platform.
If you're a cable channel, you can try and expand the base of your viewers, or you can try to get existing viewers to watch more.
The significant difference between the UK and US top tens is that at least half of the UK series, including Dexter and Prison Break, started on free to air and then disappeared behind a paywall, so presumably part of their success was based on existing viewers catching up on what they missed.
Currently, the databases listed above use their own embedded viewers and new databases continue to develop their own visualisation tools because existing viewers are potentially too hard to migrate or lack a particular function because they were specifically developed for their database and type of data.
Scribd originally debuted iPaper in February 2008, after deciding that the existing Flash Paper viewer developed by Adobe didn't perform well enough or offer enough features to keep up with the quickly growing service.
In a world saturated with spectacle, he wanted his art to respond to the existing surroundings so that the viewer's experience of the everyday world would become paramount.
Surely not, though at the margins it is likely that cable news outlets turbo-charge the existing partisan fervour of their core viewers.
Any attempt to cross over into live-action TV must prove that it's a worthy extension of the film franchise while still appealing to viewers outside of the existing core audience.
The existing 8 p.m. host, Ed Schultz, surprised his viewers on Wednesday night by saying that Thursday night's edition of "The Ed Show" would be his last.
