Mathew Ingram notes that the current model of TV show development is, umm, weird:

The part that I found really striking, though, was near the end, where Zucker starts talking about how he thinks the system of making dozens of expensive — and ultimately futile — TV pilots is a dumb way to do things. And when you listen to the numbers involved, it’s hard not to agree: The big five networks spent $500-million last year on about 80 pilots, he says, of which only eight were brought back for a second season. And even among those, “none could be considered a big success.”

We talk a lot about how many software projects fail, but the rates aren't anywhere near as bad as the model described above. Maybe we need to stop being so hard on ourselves :)

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