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Date Posted: 23:30:01 04/18/05 Mon
Author: Dog of War
Subject: Curious about the economics of television
In reply to: Rocket 's message, "Save Arrested Development" on 17:06:12 04/18/05 Mon

Since Fox owns numerous different channels, I wonder exactly what keeps them from moving a show like Arrested Development, with a small but extremely loyal following, to the FX network. While it's a low rated broadcast show, it'd be a very highly rated cable show.

Sadly, it seems most networks are still enamored with reality TV, which despite the waning ratings are still the most profitable shows on TV, owing to their bottom dollar production costs. For the cost of a single episode of a show like Arrested Development you can get half a season worth of people eating goat penises or warbling r&b tunes off-key.

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