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    HBO also repeats its shows many times (the first repeat of GoT this past week had nearly a million viewers), and has HBO Go and HBO Now; to the best of my knowledge, the only way to legally watch OITNB is through Netflix or, eventually, through DVD (which GoT also has).

    This reminds me that FOX once had a pilot in development that was also called Bitches. It was said to be Sex and the City with werewolves. (I am not making this up.)

    This will be the second FOX series to be titled Second Chance; the first one was an awful sitcom starring Matthew Perry: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

    "(The 2001 premiere will go down as the network’s highest rated episode ever.)"

    The first airing of this week's episode had 17,000 viewers, and no, I did not leave off a "0." I think it might be the lowest rated show this site reviews regularly.

    It's won 3 of those meaningless awards!

    Longtime Companion is listed as a 1989 movie because it premiered at a film festival that year, but it didn't make it to theaters til May 1990, and Davison's nomination was announced in February 1991, a month after Harry and the Hendersons premiered.

    Davison's situation was worse than that: his Academy Awards nomination came a month after the premiere of Harry and the Hendersons, which had already been guaranteed to run for 72 episodes.

    If there's one thing I hate the most about development season news, it's the idea that a put pilot means that a network is almost definitely going to air a show. Here are the 38 (!) put pilot deals from two seasons ago that didn't actually go to pilot, let alone to series: http://goo.gl/m1Fi49

    Episodes gets a writing nomination every year too.

    In The Wire's first 2 seasons, 16 of the 25 episodes aired after Sex and the City, and a number of other episodes aired after reruns of The Sopranos. And the ratings were perfectly fine by the standards of cable ratings in 2002 and 2003, as long as you didn't compare the ratings to The Sopranos or Sex and the City.

    "a quartet boasting such credits as Alias, Fringe, and Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol between them. "
    Those are the credits that continue to get them TV work, sure, but 3 of out of the 4 people listed were responsible for TV duds October Road, Happy Town, and the US version of Life on Mars.

    I looked at an episode on Hulu, and he is definitely credited as the creator.