History AdoredByTheNetwork / LiveACtionTV

** In a nutshell, both hosts ended up getting screwed by NBC's attempts to keep them happy. O'Brien was forced out of his dream job less than a year after taken over without given any chance at all to build an audience, while Leno, through little fault of his own, faced a [[InternetBackdraft lbacklash]] that reduced his audience and fanbase to a fraction of what it once was and permanently damaged his reputation. In the end, nobody won...well maybe {{TBS}} who gave Conan his new show...and TNT, who got {{Southland}}, which was also a victim of the whole debacle.
*** While it is true that Leno got unfairly framed as the "bad guy" in the situation as the debacle was all of NBC's doing and he simply landed the Tonight Show by being the last man standing once all the dust had settled, his response to the crisis just furthered the backlash against him. Instead of telling his side of the story and pointing out that the crisis was all of NBC's making and that he never intended to be a thorn in O'Brien's side, he instead tried to also paint himself as a victim, which struck the public as absurd and further fueled the backlash as he was essentially getting what he wanted all along: to remain the host of The Tonight Show. The fact that he pulled some shady moves to get the Tonight Show over DavidLetterman didn't help either; Letterman used the 1992 Tonight Show conflict to paint Leno as a conniving schemer who purposely sabotaged O'Brien, becoming Leno's most vocal critic throughout the whole ordeal.

** This is an odd case, though, as NBC couldn't make up their mind on how to bestow adoration in the O'Brien/Leno situation (the Letterman situation was arguably decided five years before it happened, with Leno being the permanent Monday night host of the show before Carson's retirement). Initially, Leno was essentially [[ScrewedByTheNetwork fired from the show]] despite top ratings, being told in 2004 that O'Brien would get the show in 2009 regardless of Leno's ratings situation; so Leno was, seemingly, screwed by the network's adoration for O'Brien. Yet when the time came to actually fire him, he was then in a way screwed by the network's adoration for ''him'', as they wouldn't let him leave for another network (though his tenure on the show was terminated, he was still under contract for Creator/{{NBC}}). This led to them giving him his own prime-time show with a [[ExecutiveMeddling mandated format change]], which bombed at the same time as, and ostensibly [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom leading to]], O'Brien's run on ''The Tonight Show'' doing poorly in the ratings. Cue ''more'' clueless meddling, and the end result is that O'Brien left NBC and Leno returned to ''The Tonight Show'', but the show's ratings are still shaky due to the backlash, and it would appear nobody was the "winner"...well maybe {{TBS}} who gave Conan his new show...and TNT, who got {{Southland}}, which was also a victim of the whole debacle.

* Scrubs rose in popularity in Germany during the late Zeroes. Pro7 used this to completely rework their daytime programming of scripted reality shows to sitcom reruns and showed the new episodes in the primetime instead of Saturday afternoon. The block started around 12am and showed double to quadruple episodes of 3 to four shows. AND because of last days episodes being rerun in the morning hours this sometimes resulted in 8 episodes of Scrubs per day (10 when they aired new ones in the primetime). Ratings for the retooled / PostScriptSeason were the best of the entire shows run over here, if Pro7 had any word in it they wouldn´t have cancelled Scrubs.

* In New York City, {{Seinfeld}} is aired at least 6 times a day between TBS and the local FOX affiliate.

* In New York City, {{Seinfeld}} is aired at least 6 times a day between FOX and TBS.

** This is an odd case, though, as NBC couldn't make up their mind on how to bestow adoration in the O'Brien/Leno situation (the Letterman situation was arguably decided five years before it happened, with Leno being the permanent Monday night host of the show before Carson's retirement). Initially, Leno was essentially [[ScrewedByTheNetwork fired from the show]] despite top ratings, being told in 2004 that O'Brien would get the show in 2009 regardless of Leno's ratings situation; so Leno was, seemingly, screwed by the network's adoration for O'Brien. Yet when the time came to actually fire him, he was then in a way screwed by the network's adoration for ''him'', as they wouldn't let him leave for another network (though his tenure on the show was terminated, he was still under contract for Creator/{{NBC}}). This led to them giving him his own prime-time show with a [[ExecutiveMeddling mandated format change]], which bombed at the same time as O'Brien's run on ''The Tonight Show'' was doing poorly in the ratings. Cue ''more'' clueless meddling, and the end result is that O'Brien left NBC and Leno returned to ''The Tonight Show'', but the show's ratings are still shaky due to the backlash, and it would appear nobody was the "winner"...well maybe {{TBS}} who gave Conan his new show...and TNT, who got {{Southland}}, which was also a victim of the whole debacle.

* WhoseLineIsItAnyway, in a sense, at the time it was first on ABC. It's ratings, especially since it aired against ''{{Friends}}'' at the height of it's popularity, were never all that great (''any'' other show with it's ratings would have been cancelled), but it was so cheap to produce they kept it around to keep the slot filled.

* For CartoonNetwork it was ''Series/DudeWhatWouldHappen''. This wasn't the first time the station tried to get over a Live Action show, but it was definitely the show they put the most effort into trying to become popular. It started when Cartoon Network launched an entire block of Live Action shows, CN Real, in an effort to rebrand their network into being closer to Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. [[InternetBackdraft It went over about as well as you can think]] and the ratings for the entire Network tanked hard. After dropping CN Real, the network was still determined to put over Dude What Would Happen, and continued airing it for '''Two Years''' despite horrible ratings and ''overwhelming'' negative viewer response before finally getting cancelled.
** Lately CartoonNetwork has REALLY been hyping up ''LevelUp'', first the movie and then the series. The show has been getting ads big in number and in length, you'll be hard-pressed to go through a commercial break that DOESN'T have an ad for the show.
** Not only that, after ''Level Up'' premiered, they've rerun it every weeknight even though only ''one episode'' had premiered. Plus, the second episode aired ''commercial-free'', [[http://www.nickandmore.com/2012/02/01/level-up-goes-commercial-free-for-second-and-third-episodes/ as will the third.]] [[CartoonNetwork CN's]] cartoons could only dream of this kind of attention.

* ''TheBigBangTheory'' is quickly becoming this for {{CBS}} lately: promos and bumps for the show can be seen in stores like [=GameStop=] (on [=GameStop=] TV), got signed to do three more seasons (making the total six thus far) and now it's even going to be shown five nights a week later this year.

* The US version of ''WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' is perhaps the TropeCodifier and poster boy of this. The show was a massive hit for {{ABC}} in a time when the network was struggling. They quickly capitalized on the popularity of the show, giving it multiple airings per week (up to ''four'' days a week) in order to keep the ratings up. Unfortunately Millionaire's overplay escalated the show's downfall and cancellation. On the bright side, it still enjoys success in the syndication format.

* Jay Leno is an example of this happening with a person instead of a show. In 1992, {{NBC}} picked him to host ''TheTonightShow'' over DavidLetterman when Johnny Carson retired. In 2009/2010, after some [[ScrewedByTheNetwork serious]] ExecutiveMeddling, he returned to ''TheTonightShow'' after an abortive shot at a PrimeTime VarietyShow, screwing over ConanOBrien and causing one hell of an [[InternetBackdraft uproar]] in the process.
** This is an odd case, though, as NBC couldn't make up their mind on how to bestow adoration in the O'Brien/Leno situation (the Letterman situation was arguably decided five years before it happened, with Leno being the permanent Monday night host of the show before Carson's retirement). Initially, Leno was essentially [[ScrewedByTheNetwork fired from the show]] despite top ratings, being told in 2004 that O'Brien would get the show in 2009 regardless of Leno's ratings situation; so Leno was, seemingly, screwed by the network's adoration for O'Brien. Yet when the time came to actually fire him, he was then in a way screwed by the network's adoration for ''him'', as they wouldn't let him leave for another network (though his tenure on the show was terminated, he was still under contract for {{NBC}}). This led to them giving him his own prime-time show with a [[ExecutiveMeddling mandated format change]], which bombed at the same time as O'Brien's run on ''The Tonight Show'' was doing poorly in the ratings. Cue ''more'' clueless meddling, and the end result is that O'Brien left NBC and Leno returned to ''The Tonight Show'', but the show's ratings are still shaky due to the backlash, and it would appear nobody was the "winner"...well maybe {{TBS}} who gave Conan his new show...and TNT, who got {{Southland}}, which was also a victim of the whole debacle.

* Another show adored by {{NBC}} is ''TheApprentice''. Despite heavily declining ratings and DonaldTrump being a complete joke now, the show continues to run and Trump's high-concept RatingsStunt to run for President will most likely assure more seasons to come.

* Local news on most stations. Justified, in that TV stations ''have'' to run news in order to get a broadcast license from the FCC. It also benefits them in that it's cheaper to produce news than pay for syndicated programming, and it can earn the station some respect if it's high quality.

** Until about 2002 it was shocking if a week went by without them airing the 1986 bomb ''Stewardess School''.

* ''Series/{{MASH}}'' is the darling of the Hallmark Channel -- it airs approximately twice every four hours on the channel.
** Well, at least it ''was'' until the Martha Stewart combine overran the channel's daytime schedule at the end of 2010, leading to a ''M*A*S*H''-free Hallmark. What followed was a whiplash inversion of the trope when nearly half of the Stewart-controlled seven hour block was converted into ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' space barely a month after launch.

* In the mid-to-late 1990s, it seemed like the USANetwork was pretty much "The ''Series/{{Wings}}'' channel".

** Nickelodeon does this with any "big" Teen Com that has any form of success - ''DrakeAndJosh'' comes to mind fairly quickly and they even aired the Christmas Special over and over--even when it wasn't CHRISTMAS, ''ICarly'' lately is the most recent culprit.

*** Nick's love affair with ICarly is so over now. They have shown first run episodes without ''any promotion'' at all and have been pushing {{Victorious}} instead.

* It was big news in 2011 when Channel 4 announced it would no longer show ''{{Friends}}''. E4 aired it as much as 7 or 8 times a day. ''Friends'' achieved something few American LongRunners manage in Britain, with every episode being shown, and in PrimeTime - [[{{Ellen}} unlike]] [[{{Frasier}} many]] [[HomicideLifeOnTheStreet of]] [[TheSopranos its]] [[WillAndGrace compatriots]]. In the end ComedyCentral took up the ''Friends'' slack.
** It has also tried to use ''{{Scrubs}}'', and more recently ''TheBigBangTheory'' to the same degree, although they don't get quite the same level of coverage ans ''Friends'' did.

* Pick any day of the week. If {{USA|Network}} isn't running a marathon of ''LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', it's probably running a marathon of ''LawAndOrderCriminalIntent''. If not, it's most likely ''Series/{{NCIS}}''. Also, every weekend is a marathon of one of those shows (or ''BurnNotice'' or ''{{Psych}}'' or occasionally ''Series/{{Monk}}''). Every. Weekend.

** Swapped for or followed by ''{{Bones}}''.

** Hell, we can pretty much add ''any'' DisneyChannel Original Series that's live action. Whereas ''PhineasAndFerb'' gets [[AdoredByTheNetwork lots of love]] from Disney Channels all over the world, the show barely gets shown on Family. Whereas the ''[[TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Suite]]'' ''[[SuiteLifeOnDeck Life]]'' series and ''HannahMontana'' gets played many, many times over. It's pretty much [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment hell]] to anyone that hates Disney Channel's live action shows. Oh, and ''LizzieMcGuire'' and ''ThatsSoRaven'' still airs to this day in prime-time.

** For the longest time, old (~1980-1995) episodes of ''SaturdayNightLive'' was all-purpose caulk pumped into a highly porous daily schedule . As of the mid-2000s, it was replaced as such by ''MadTV'' once they lost the ''SNL'' rights. Then they lost the rights to ''MadTV'' (after it being off their schedule for several months) and eventually ''{{Scrubs}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' reruns have taken their place.

** Their latest favorite seems to be ''ChildrensHospital'', as they practically save at least one {{Ad Bumper|s}} each week for that show. With the season 5 premiere of ''RobotChicken'', Creator/AdultSwim scheduled the shows so that reruns of ''Children's Hospital'' would come on at the half hour, and new episodes of ''Robot Chicken'' [[ScrewedByTheNetwork at the :45]].

* {{Reality Show}}s in general are officially the CreatorsPet in Italy[[hottip:*: there actually ''are'' people who like them, which makes this more of a case of [[BrokenBase Broken Audience]].]]. Spanish-Italian showgirl Natalia Estrada [[WordOfGod explicitly stated]] that she would return on TV only at the end -- if any[[hottip:*: The latest edition of BigBrother even had {{padding}} and lasted roughly two more ''months'' than previous seasons. Go figure.]] - of the current reality show craze.

* TNT seems to really love ''Series/FranklinAndBash'' as it probably gets promoted more than any other show on that network (even ''RizzoliAndIsles'' and ''{{Leverage}}'').

** Recently, ''RiverMonsters'' is adored by the network. Fortunately, much like ''{{Mythbusters}}'' and ''TheCrocodileHunter'', it's one of those shows that [[SoCoolItsAwesome deserves]] to be adored.

* {{YTV}} completely adores ''ICarly'' and ''Series/MrYoung'', to a point where listings for both shows (especially for the latter) are shown in tiny text during ads for other shows, alongside the listings for the show being advertised.
** [[ItGotWorse It gets worse]]. YTV's new method, similar to the case with [[DisneyChannel Family]] in Canada, animated series gets all but [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screwed over]], since ''{{iCarly}}'', ''{{Victorious}}'', and any original or {{Nickelodeon}}-produced live-action series gets all the love. Unless the show happens to be ''SpongebobSquarepants'', ''FairlyOddparents'', or [[{{Sidekick}} any]] [[AlmostNakedAnimals of]] [[ScaredySquirrel the]] [[ErkyPerky original]] [[LeagueOfSuperEvil Canadian]] [[KidVsKat animations]], any other Nicktoon has no chance of airing on YTV.

* {{YTV}} completely adores ''ICarly'' and ''Series/MrYoung''.

** Averted, surprisingly, with ''{{Glee}}'', to which E4 has the rights to run episodes from the first two seasons, ''HowIMetYourMother'', ''DesperateHousewives'' and several other high profile American shows. E4's business model largely revolves around buying up the rights to American shows before they're popular and hoping they turn into smash hits.

** As of 2012, Hallmark has been relentlessly dedicating itself to reminding the world of ''{{TheWaltons}}'' existence.

* ComedyCentral loves ''[[Series/{{Tosh0}} Tosh.0]]'', to the point where other shows have [[ScrewedByTheNetwork gotten canceled or moved to crappy spots]] because they aren't as cheap to produce.

** For the longest time, old (~1980-1995) episodes of ''SaturdayNightLive'' was all-purpose caulk pumped into a highly porous daily schedule . As of the mid-2000s, it was replaced as such by ''MadTV'' once they lost the ''SNL'' rights. Then they lost the rights to ''MadTV'' (after it being off their schedule for several months) and eventually ''{{Scrubs}}'' and ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' reruns have taken their place.

* {{YTV}} completely adores ''ICarly'' and ''[[Series/MrYoung Mr. Young]]''.

* Before it was replaced by a 24-hour version of ''The N'', ''Nick GAS'' would air almost nothing but ''LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple'', ''NickArcade'', and the ''DoubleDare'' shows. By the time it was shut down, the channel was, by all accounts, running on autopilot, having dwindled down to just those shows.

** If you're watching [[{{Channel 4}} E4]], then your probably watching this. You're not?! Don't worry, another episode will be along in a minute.

** If your watching [[{{Channel 4}} E4]], then your probably watching this. You're not?! Don't worry, another episode will be along in a minute.

** If your watching [[{{Channel 4}} E4]], then your probably watching this. Your not?! Don't worry, another episode will be along in a minute.

* WhoseLineIsItAnyway, in a sense, at the time it was first on ABC. It's ratings, especially since it aired against ''{{Friends}}'' at the height of it's popularity, were never all that great (''any'' other show with it's ratings would have been cancelled), but it was so cheap to produce they kept it around to keep the slot filled.