Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4196008-20160511002623/@comment-26159109-20160601031104

CoolDudeAl wrote: NickyHelp wrote:

I gues the boyfriend thing for Qutlaw Queen and maybe for CS shipping sillyness is not working out and that the new abc network leader (Channing Dungey) demands some changes like slowly making the show back the way it was because of the ratings. We might never know. And we wonder why the former leader (Paul Lee) was fired in the first place. The head of the network does not, and will never, force the writers to do his or her personal wishes. That is a surefire way to get all the writers to quit. Not only that, but what your suggesting is that someone who probably has very little understanding of how writing and storytelling works, would get to make decisions on what the tv shows should do. I can't explain how bad that would be for all the shows.

But that happens though. The network does researches and tell the producers "this is popular", "this is what your show should be about". This is actually happened (and still happening) with Regina and Hook. The Network doesn't care about "good" storytelling or any storytelling at all. They only care about the money from ad buyers.