Net Loss
The government killed TV, and Hollywood's begging it to revive the corpse
By Robert Wilonsky
- If CBS had its way in 1988, Heather Locklear, not Candice Bergen, would have been Murphy Brown.
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"The empowerment these corporations have now has made it very difficult for creators," English says. "You see a lot of very smart people dropping out. And there's so much you're not going to see. The perfect example is The Sopranos, which was developed for Fox and rejected by every network. I will say that there are some wonderful shows on now, and there will always be wonderful shows. But I think that there are more terrible shows than there ever were, and how many more of these horrible reality things do we have to endure just because they're really cheap to make? It's so sad."
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