The Black List Audience Graph • Social Signal

The Black List's top 10 nearest neighbors span film studios, entertainment trade publications, industry blogs, and comedians — with no single standout pulling far ahead of the rest.

The shape is flat: scores run from 0.98 (IFC Films) down to 0.96 (Stage 32) with no meaningful gap between them. IFC Films leads at 0.98, followed by Backstage at 0.97, Desus Nice at 0.97, Sundance Film Festival at 0.97, and Variety at 0.96. Tallying subcategories across the 10: three are Film Studios or Events and Awards entities tied to the independent film world (IFC Films, Sundance Film Festival, and A24 at 0.96); two are industry-facing publications or blogs (Backstage, IndieWire at 0.96); two are Websites serving the entertainment industry (Stage 32, IndieWire); and Desus Nice is the lone Comedian in the top 10. The center entity's own subcategory — TV Shows — has no match among the top 10 neighbors.

The cross-kind pattern here is the finding: an entity classified as a TV Show draws its nearest audiences almost entirely from the independent film ecosystem and entertainment trade media, not from other TV properties.

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The Black List

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