>>81574148Is this your first year on the internet.
Networks do this constantly.
Gendy had SymBionic Titan fucked with in the slots and effectively forced off air before he could finish it. A guy who effectively helped build their network up from the obscure position it started at.
Nickelodeon promised Mike and Bryan more seasons of ATLA than they delivered. Effectively having them rework the episode.
They bought Korra back with the promise that it would get the support it needed, and then pulled a budget out from under them, forcing them to fire people or make that weird clip show episode.
CNs did similar shit to the crew on Chowder, Flapjack, Camp Lazlo, poaching the guys they wanted to work on new stuff and they'll probably pull similar shit when they decide their shows are done.
BOTTOM LINE: there are people who work for CN (and every other network) balancing budgets. And they will recommend some heinous shit. More often than not networks listen.
The chain of cash flow in television is so fucked up. I used to work for TV as a researcher for a small indie producer, holy shit. The amount of Mad Men style schmoozing you do just to pitch an idea to some booze drenched network dipshit, who's the 5th exectuvie running it in 5 years by the way.
The board is a collection of paranoid and discombobulated talking heads who spend all their money on entertainment that isn't television, who might look at a graph one week and notice viewer ship dipped and shit the bed and pass the word onto some network head who barely likes your show (and can barely describe it) to tell some producer that it has to go. The producer then delivers that to you and can offer no explanation as to why other than 'their meddling with the budget again'.
You wanna know why good succesful shows leave TV? It's because the people who really run TV don't watch TV.
It's so fucked up from the inside out.
