Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4196008-20160511002623/@comment-25926288-20160601174750

CoolDudeAl wrote: Farerb wrote:

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. You and Nicky seriously think the network president comes in with infographs of research and tells the writers what they are going to do? Regina and Hook are featured because Adam and Eddy like them, and realize alot of the fans like them, not because the network head said that research showed that they are the most popular characters. XD The network does do things, ya know. XD

I'm certain the network does more research than the writers do. I mean, the writers are suppose to be writing, not creating infographs with varied information XD (yes, the second time in a row)

The network realizes Once's potential and allows and has its own sway for a direction of a show, but I'm sure A & E are the final decision-makers as long as they have a profitable show.

It's like your saying, "Guys, your boss doesn't have any influence on what you do at all! It's all up to you. " which would be wrong to say.

The network does the promotion and I'm sure there would be a reason why they tend to use Hook and Reginaand it's not because Adam and Eddy like writing for them on occasion and it's definitely not because a rabid fandom swarms them on twitter.

So, not the network president and noone said that. But someone, whoever that is, has a job to do and they won't be writing for the show and they will have graphs and lots of them.