What is CBS Doing?

I gave up trying to figure out CBS a long time ago. This is a good show. I hope it gets the support it deserves.

There's something here that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.-Doctor Who

You have to understand that things like milestones in the show, the story, the actors, etc, don't matter to the network executives.

You see a show as something to get invested in, they see it as a product with as much emotional attachment to it as you have to the roll of toilet paper in your bathroom. All the hype about how they believe in a certain show, or how they love it, are just words to them. They don't actually understand those concepts.

To them, TV shows are like fighting dogs. You throw it into the arena with other dogs and hope it kills them. If it doesn't, it's a loser, so you put it to sleep and grab another dog.

Also, network executives (and movie studio executives) are completely incapable of judging quality. They don't even know the definition of the word. To them, every cop show is completely equal to every other cop show. They're all interchangeable. They don't see unique characters, all they see are the words "Cop Drama", or "Sitcom". They don't have a clue what makes one show successful while another show flops.

The closest they can come is to credit or blame the actors for a show's success or failure. So when a show is successful, they keep trying to put those actors in other shows and can't understand it when they fail. Conversely, when a show fails, they're likely to blame the actors and not want to cast them in anything else.


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