For a pricey show like Mad Men to continue it needs to turn a good profit.
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"We watch the show like everybody else and react to it as we go along and start rewriting, " Vilanch says.
So NBC was able to pick up the show like a secondary buyer would, for a greatly reduced licensing fee.
When you look at a show like that from a distance, it might seem too narrow to contain much of interest.
In its interview with Mr. Halfens, the New York Times points out several obstacles to making a show like Divorce Hotel.
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Rob Schwartz: Is an advertising award show like the One Show important?
Ms. REEVES: In a show like this, no, because we know who we're paying tribute to, but I can make them my own.
At HGTV, pushing the editorial envelope means a show like Love It or List It, which radically combines buying real estate and home renovation.
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It's easy to say, "NBC should have a show like 'Sons, '" but season one ratings for "Sons" wouldn't have been high enough to survive on broadcast.
The episode ends with a vision of a future with flying cars where a network executive (an age-defying Kenneth) happily bankrolls a show like "30 Rock" from Lemon's great-granddaughter.
And part of the reason a show like News Corp. (nyse: NWS - news - people )-owned Fox's American Idol works is because it happens once a year.
Becoming a mainstay on a show like "The X Factor, " and showing off her personality each week, could reignite the level of fame Spears experienced in the early 2000s, Greene added.
The real stars of the show weren't the multinational corporations, but rather the startups that couldn't necessarily afford the astronomical fees required to set up a booth at a show like this.
"When you start to see the age creep up on a show like that, you wonder whether the show is sustainable, " says Laura Caraccioli-Davis, head of entertainment at Starcom, a media planning agency.
"Pepper's ghost" isn't the sort of phrase you hear very often at a show like SXSW. In amongst all the latest generation technology, there aren't too many folks discussing hundreds years old optical concepts.
The idea of reading gossip about John Hamm while watching a new episode of a great show like Mad Men might seem crazy, but the truth is that both my wife and I have our laptops open during almost every other show.
The job of kicking off this year's South By Southwest Interactive conference fell firmly in the hands of none other than MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis -- and really a show like this couldn't ask for a better, more enthusiastic evangelist for emerging technologies.
If you look at a show like Survivor for example, what makes the game work is the fact that the way to win is not by eliminating other people, but by convincing those people you eliminated to give you the money, which is very complicated.
This business stucture makes sense for Battlestar, Saturday Night Live, and 30 Rock, all shows that do well in syndication, but what is the point of offering a show like Party Down, a half-hour comedy program produced by the Starz cable network, to viewers via a web stream through Netflix the same week that a new episode airs on TV?
Show me tricks like I show my young people, like, things that people want to listen to and hear out and messages that are actually going to stick to them.
If I have interviews after the show I like for them to happen immediately after the show so I can get home.
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Microsoft is rumored to be following up the successful 1 vs. 100 experiment in offering episodic TV show-like content on Live with a poker game show.
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The demo was more like being at a show and less like going to Best Buy.
And the 13 channels in Asia show sports like table tennis and men's field hockey.
But even as it recaptures the past, the show, like da Vinci, is forward-looking.
Sometimes the show feels like an episodic series masquerading as a story with a longer narrative arc.
The show was like walking into a garden of organza peonys, crepe-de-chine azaleas and ivory silk faille trimmings.
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And with what's happened to Brand in the past few months, the show feels like it wrote itself.
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