In the era of networks only, ...

In the era of networks only, I cannot tell you the number of shows that we don't know about that did not survive. They got canceled. But there are a few that survived by accident, because they didn't have anything else to do, and they stayed with it.
 Henry Blodget

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Television is like the movie business. It's not the least-objectionable program - it's the best program that gets positioned. Same in the movie business. It's not just everything automatically gets done by the "in" crowd.
 Henry Blodget
When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not.
 Henry Blodget