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10->''"If you're giving me eight straight hours of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', aren't you forcing every single non-''King of the Hill'' fan to abandon your channel for the rest of the day to go watch something else?"''
11-->-- '''Website/{{Cracked}}''', "[[http://www.cracked.com/article_18886_5-ways-television-went-crazy-since-i-quit-watching-in-2003_p2.html#ixzz26BuuMFyw 5 Ways Television Went Crazy Since I Quit Watching in 2003]]"
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13So you're curling up on the armchair to watch your favorite show -- but the schedule has been changed and yet another airing of the network's most popular (or just favored by execs) show is airing in its place. Your blood boils, but there's nothing you can do -- it's the network's pet program.
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15This is Adored by the Network in a nutshell. An over-promoted, over-aired program that either dominates the entire schedule or gets promoted over every ''other'' show on the network or some combination of the two. Whenever networks stumble upon a massive hit show, this show usually gets the most attention and most promotion. [[MarathonRunning Marathons are run]], special programming events occur often surrounding the show, and the show is given multiple airings daily.
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17This usually comes at the expense of all the other shows on the channel, particularly the shows on the verge of being canceled. At the very least, they will just be ignored. At the very worst, they can be canceled or [[ReTool re-tooled]] to make it more in line with the adored show. And at very, ''very'', worst -- it could signal the first signs of NetworkDecay, as the network may add [[FollowTheLeader more shows similar to the network darling to the lineup.]]
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19Despite the network's fixation on this show, it doesn't fit the nature of being the CreatorsPet because, well, if it's a hit, then many people like it. It may be a critical darling that's loved by all. You ''yourself'' may like the show. But you also like ''other'' shows on the channel and the overbearing presence of the program just may be too much. This may lead to even the people who genuinely enjoy the show may getting sick of it. Enough of this can ironically result in the show being considered ScrewedByTheNetwork, as it can lead to the show's downfall and cancellation.
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21As of TheNewTens, the trope has exploded across all networks, due to the changing landscape of television due to the meteoric rise of streaming services. Ratings for live viewing have fallen dramatically, particularly for networks aimed towards children and young people. Most of a network's day schedule usually consists of one or two shows that are dependable for ratings and ad revenue, with premieres airing erratically. Adored By The Network has now become the de facto standard for much of television.
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23Before you add an example, keep in mind this isn't Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike. Also, the simple act of airing the show a lot of times doesn't alone qualify it for this trope. The network has to go above and beyond to prop this show up constantly.
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25See also MarathonRunning (where whole marathons can be dedicated to a single show), CashCowFranchise, HollywoodHypeMachine (when this happens to actors), CreatorsPet (when this happens to characters and the fans are annoyed), RepeatingAd (when this happens to commercials), WolverinePublicity, and NetworkDecay. NetworkToTheRescue is a sure sign of this. Contrast ScrewedByTheNetwork; also sometimes the result of this trope. See also NetworkRedHeadedStepchild, RenewedBeforePremiere.
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28!!Example subpages:
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30[[index]]
31[[AC:By medium]]
32* AdoredByTheNetwork/LiveActionTV
33* AdoredByTheNetwork/WesternAnimation
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35[[AC:By network/show]]
36* [[AdoredByTheNetwork/CartoonNetwork Cartoon Network / [=[adult swim]=]]]
37** {{AdoredByTheNetwork/Toonami}}
38** ''AdoredByTheNetwork/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball''
39** ''AdoredByTheNetwork/TeenTitansGo''
40* [[{{AdoredByTheNetwork/Disney}} Disney-owned networks]]
41** ''AdoredByTheNetwork/BigCityGreens''
42* AdoredByTheNetwork/FoxAnimatedShows
43* {{AdoredByTheNetwork/Nickelodeon}}
44** {{AdoredByTheNetwork/Nicktoons}}
45** ''AdoredByTheNetwork/TheLoudHouse''
46** ''AdoredByTheNetwork/SpongeBobSquarePants''
47* AdoredByTheNetwork/PBSKids
48** AdoredByTheNetwork/{{Sprout}}
49[[/index]]
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51!!Other examples:
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54[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
55* ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', from just the initial good reception of a special theatrical cut of the first 5 episodes in Japan, the series aired in more than 20 stations at first, and when its gargantuan success had been solidified Creator/FujiTelevision who initially rejected the series, thinking it wouldn't be any special, had to beg for the series' broadcasting rights, airing on a prime time slot, getting great results in its rerun; after that, constant reruns became common.
56* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' was this for the ailing Fox Kids around the time of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''; the love sort of petered off by the end of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02''. It was picked up by the network in order to [[DuelingShows compete]] with ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' on Creator/KidsWB and capitalize on the {{anime}} boom. Some Saturday mornings, ''Digimon'' would air ''three'' times. It supplanted ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' (circa ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'') as the most popular show on the block and booted the show from its long-time schedule spots (9am EST Saturdays and 4pm EST weekdays). This still rankles long time ''Power Rangers'' fans, as it would retroactively prove to be a {{foreshadowing}} for ''that'' series sinking even lower under {{Creator/Disney}}...
57* Before it was replaced by [[EdutainmentShow E/I programming]], the [=CW4Kids=] themed block "Toonzai" aired between two to three hours of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' content within its six-hour time slot on Saturday mornings, plus ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' advertisements for new cards and episodes intermittent between the other shows. They also aired ''Dinosaur King'', a series with a similar format to ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'', and advertised Bakugan, which is a competitor complete with card game-centric anime itself. Any impressionable mind watching the Saturday morning block on the CW at the time was convinced that people dramatically waving trading cards around was the coolest thing ever. This was all justified in that ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' had secured itself in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2009 as the most successful trading card game worldwide, and the fact that a theatrical film was released during this time period.
58** ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' was this no matter ''what'' Creator/TheCW called its kids' block in the pre-One Magnificent Morning era. It was also true when Creator/TheCW was Creator/TheWB. Even as other shows got moved around, screwed around, and didn't get to complete their runs even when they were ''far'' from LongRunners, the original ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' and at least one of its sequels ''never failed'' to air multiple episodes every Saturday ever. Even a new or new-to-CW show that was treated half as well as YGO ''reruns'' would have been a sign of the apocalypse, unless that new show was a YGO sequel.
59* ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' was this for Creator/{{Nicktoons}}, with anywhere from three to six hours worth being shown on any given day in total. It got to the point where Nicktoons began airing the original ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' movies in an almost completely uncut format, with the only real edit being a Hitler scene in ''Anime/DragonBallZFusionReborn''. All blood, violence, and profanity were kept, at a TV-Y7-FV rating no less.
60* [[Creator/{{Animax}} Animax Latin America]] was criticized for its anime-only run because of this. Between 2005 to 2007, shows such as ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'' and ''Manga/GetBackers'' (and to a lesser extent, ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' and ''Manga/PitaTen'', although the latter was removed from the schedule in 2007) were being overplayed. To be fair though, both of the former two series did have 52 episodes. When ''Literature/TheTwelveKingdoms'' premiered, it cluttered most of the schedule in the past few years (it had 47 episodes).
61* [[Creator/{{Animax}} Animax Asia]] averts this at first, with a lot of variety in the anime shown until somewhere around 2012 to 2014 the channel has aired ''nothing'' but ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' and all three seasons of the ''VideoGame/PrettyRhythm'' franchise.
62* Spanish network ''Antena 3'' 's sister channel ''Neox'' might as well be called ''The Manga/CrayonShinChan Network'', with around over 3 hours of it every day on morning, with weekends tacking in a ''Shinchan'' movie after all of that. There aren't that many movies, so after a month they just loop. Eventually they just ditched the movies and had five hours of ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' on weekends. Sure, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Spaniards love Shin-chan]], but is that overkill needed? Then again, ''Antena 3'' itself has been showing two Simpson episodes a day for well over a decade. The situation eventually calmed down; now they "only" show two hours.
63** Spanish kids channel Boing loves ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' so much that broadcasts at least eight episodes every day, and it's very strange to put the channel and find that they are not broadcasting ''Doraemon'' (or, for a time, earlier seasons of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''). Sadly, the logic effect of this has been the disband of all the grown-up fans who came to the channel attracted by its broadcasting ''Manga/OnePiece'' and ''Naruto Shippuden'', which now belong to a past era of Boing.
64** Ditto for the Italian version of Boing, to the point that is one of the very few things they air that is not a Cartoon Network show.
65* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' for Creator/KidsWB. Sometimes they would show nothing but the show to promote a special or new movie, and they'd sometimes show it for three hours at a time. Cartoon Network and Disney XD don't do this nearly as often.
66** Kids WB's adoration for all things ''Pokémon'' even spilled into their promotional attempts for other shows in their lineup. During a ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''-themed [[MillenniumBug [=Y2K=]]] event, viewers were encouraged to send in their predictions of the future to be read on the air. One of the more notable entries: "In the future, Pokémon will be on every channel all day long." The dreams of someone truly obsessed with the series, or an early example of epic trolling?
67* Italian television channel Italia 1 is very, very fond of ''Franchise/DragonBall''. They aired the three series (''Manga/DragonBall'', ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' and ''Anime/DragonBallGT'') continuously since 1998: after GT's ending, they start over again with the first episode of ''Dragon Ball'', then Z, then GT... As of July 2012, we're reaching the end of the sixth rerun of Z (if this number doesn't impress you, be wary that Italia 1 is a general-purpose channel, not an anime-only, and they air one episode per day... This means that for almost twelve years there wasn't a day without ''Dragon Ball''!).
68* It's hard not to turn on the Japanese version of Animax and see a show that's not named ''Manga/ChibiMarukoChan'' or ''Manga/GeGeGeNoKitaro''. Whenever a show gets cancelled, they replace it with one of these shows.
69* Animax Central Europe adored {{Shonen}} series over all other genres, ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' in particular, of which at the time of their [[NetworkDecay decline]], they aired two episodes daily, and another two on Wednesdays (since the channel was only on the air from 8 PM to 2 AM, that's a lot). The lack of variety in their anime series is seen as one of the reasons why the channel was terminated.
70* From 2015 until 2017, the Japanese children's channel Creator/KidsStation loved ''Anime/YoKaiWatch'' so much that it aired five and a half hours of the show every day. Justified, though, as it was one of the biggest [[CashCowFranchise Cash Cow Franchises]] in the demographic.
71** Kids Station also has a fondness for ''Literature/{{Anpanman}}'', airing at least three episodes a day and holding special events based on the show at least once a month.
72* ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' and ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' are adored by Hungama TV in India, airing both ''multiple times'' everyday.
73* When ''Anime/SailorMoon'' was popular in Canada, Creator/{{YTV}} aired the show sixteen times in one week. It also helped that the show fulfilled Canadian content requirements since the show was dubbed there.
74* ''Anime/SonicX'' was absolutely beloved by 4Kids; even as their block changed identities, moved to different channels, and cycled through shows, ''Sonic X'' always had a spot on the lineup, despite having gone through its entire run dozens of times on Saturday morning television. Furthermore, as of July 1, 2017, Sinclair Broadcast Group's "[=KidsClick=]" syndicated block has picked the show up and given it slots on both the weekday and weekend lineups, despite it being ''fourteen years old''.
75* ''Manga/BlackClover'' became Website/{{Crunchyroll}}'s favorite when the anime was released, and the site is pushing hard for it to become the next ''Naruto'', famou0sly calling it "the next king of Shonen". But hey, at least on Crunchyroll you can ''choose'' what to see.
76* Creator/CentralParkMedia's president John O'Donnell loved the obscure late '80s OVA ''Anime/MDGeist'', making Geist the "company's spokemecha" and having him feature in the company indent, having Jason Beck (Geist's English dub VA) be the voice of the company's voicemail, funding not only a "director's cut" of the OVA but also a full-blown sequel, and commissioning a lavish DVD and multiple mangas and other merchandise, etc. O'Donnell's obsession with ''MD Geist'' reportedly baffled and annoyed his subordinates, as detailed [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/buried-treasure/2008-10-02/buried-garbage-m.d-geist here]] by former employee Justin Sevakis.
77* Taiwanese kids' channel My Kids TV airs ''[[VideoGame/PriPara [=PriPara=]]]'' for three and a half hours each day.
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80[[folder:Comic Books]]
81* '''''Franchise/{{Batman}}'''''. Despite Superman being ''the'' defining superhero, it's ''Batman'' who is the most pushed by DC, up to the point that the company is literally named after the comic that he debuted in. Any Bat-Event will usually be billed as ''the'' big event, and more often than not, the Bat-books (''Batman'', ''Batgirl'', ''Nightwing'', etc.) will outnumber the collective total of every other Justice Leaguer. This was especially noticeable during the New 52 reboot, when DC wanted to have 52 titles... and filled out 25% of the lineup with Bat-books, either starring Batman himself in a starring or supporting role, or showcasing several characters related to him, leaving other characters scrambling to be noticed in any way, shape, or form. This is also noticeable in terms of the creative teams -- more often than not, DC will put popular and big-name writers on the Bat-books.
82* The Carol Danvers incarnation of ComicBook/CaptainMarvel. Because Marvel have historically lacked prominent superheroines whose film rights they owned, the 2010s saw Carol Danvers adopt the Captain Marvel moniker and receive a ''huge'' push as their flagship female character. She has since never been ''without'' a solo series, was put on more than a few teams, and usually was an important figure in their events. This is probably due in part to the massive appeal Carol (and her merch) have outside of traditional monthly comics sales, with many people owning t-shirts, jackets, water bottles, and other official paraphenalia bearing her logo. The company loves her and continue to market her as their main female character at the expense of most other, more well-established characters like [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Invisible Woman]] and [[ComicBook/XMen Storm]] (although these are usually chalked up to Marvel giving [[WolverinePublicity more and more exposure]] to ComicBook/TheAvengers at the expense of the FF and the X-Men as the decade went on, due to the aforementioned lack of movie rights).
83** It's also possible that this is due to rights concerns with DC, as both companies have used the Captain Marvel name, but copyright law dictates that there can only be one comic called ''Captain Marvel''; meaning if Marvel doesn't put one out, DC might and Marvel wouldn't be able to use the name as a comic title anymore (and unlike with DC's [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]], there's no easy alternative name).
84* ComicBook/TheInhumans were heavily pushed by Marvel in the 2010s, receiving big promotional pushes and involvement in crossover events. This stems from Marvel not owning the film rights to the X-Men, thus Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter wanting to use the Inhumans in their place as the naturally superpowered minority allegory. Although their film was scheduled to be developed, increased awareness of the brand and more stories to draw on for adaptations and merchandise was required, as well as more popularity in general given how obscure they are, and so they were given more shots than would normally be warranted given just how poorly they sold (their sales were usually always under the usual Marvel/DC cancellation threshold). This subsided when the Inhumans' TV adaptation bombed, the film rights to the X-Men were reacquired and Marvel was eventually restructured to minimise Perlmutter's influence, which saw an almost instantaneous decrease in the Inhumans' promotion. Media outside of comics that began production after the return of the X-Men film rights noticeably lacks prominent Inhumans elements, with even their BreakoutCharacter [[Characters/MarvelComicsKamalaKhan Kamala Khan]], being introduced into the MCU with the Inhumans elements removed. The last episode of ''Series/MsMarvel2022'' even ''[[spoiler: reveals that she's a mutant]]''.
85* ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' has been pushed to a degree far surpassing its sales totals. Prior to 2011, there had only been one ongoing ''Suicide Squad'' series that ran for a respectable 66 issues in the late 80s and early 90s, but it was given a huge push by ''ComicBook/TheNew52''. Counting ''New Suicide Squad'', there have been ''five'' ''Suicide Squad'' ongoings since that period--each time the book falls below a threshold that most books would get cancelled at, it simply relaunches with a new creative team. It also has a noticeably outsized presence in events, most notably ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueVsSuicideSquad'', which by its very name puts the team on level pegging with DC's traditional A-listers. This isn't even mentioning cross-media projects, such as the team getting [[Film/SuicideSquad2016 a live-action film adaptation]], multiple direct-to-video animated films, and [[VideoGame/SuicideSquadKillTheJusticeLeague a big-budget video game]] from the same studio as the ''Arkham'' games. This is despite the fact that it's never been an especially strong seller--for instance, its first post-''New 52'' series, a year after launch, sold only slightly more than ''Justice League International'', which was cancelled that same month and has yet to return since.
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88[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
89* For a few years at the TurnOfTheMillennium, there were 24-hour marathons of ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' on Creator/CartoonNetwork every Thanksgiving Day. Justified, [[NoHoperRepeat since viewership was way down]] (most everyone who's watching TV on Thanksgiving is watching football anyway) and they could write off advertising and let most of their employees take the holiday off. That said, Cartoon Network has been known to flood their timeslots with ''The Iron Giant'' on other holidays too, such as Memorial Day, supposedly because it's Ted Turner's favorite movie.
90* The ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' films, specifically the first two, are played ''to death'' on Turner networks, particularly on Cartoon Network and Atlanta station WPCH-TV (Peachtree TV). The latter in particular airs the first two movies on what seems like almost ''every weekend''.
91 ** Ditto for fellow [=DreamWorks=] film ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'', as it pops up on CN and Peachtree TV quite often.
92* HBO Family seems to love playing ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'', on most weekends and holidays. Before that, any of the latest Creator/DreamworksAnimation films.
93** As of 2017, the cable rights to ''The Lego Movie'' belong to Time Warner's networks. Nowadays, you can expect one of the older [=DreamWorks=] films that aren't on the FX channels anymore, to be shown on here. Other popular choices right now include [[Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip]], and ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie''
94** Come 2020, and the same situation seems to still stand for [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart its sequel]]. ''WesternAnimation/SpiesInDisguise'', and ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'' are also becoming frequent showings. This is likely due in part to an increasing dearth of new-release family movies heading to HBO, with Creator/WarnerBrosAnimation and the now-defunct Creator/BlueSkyStudios being the only reliable providers[[labelnote:*]]while most Creator/{{Universal}} movies make their cable premieres on HBO, Creator/DreamworksAnimation titles are licensed to Creator/{{Hulu}} and Creator/{{Peacock}} while Creator/IlluminationEntertainment films are licensed to Creator/{{Netflix}}[[/labelnote]].
95* Before Disney Channel, Disney XD and [=ABC=] Family aired the movie, Starz and Encore's kid's channels seemed to be quite fond of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''.
96** Starz Kids also adores ''WesternAnimation/AstroBoy.''
97** Starz also gave this treatment to ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' after its premiere on February 26, 2016. They aired it every single day for two weeks in a row, a feat which no new-to-the-channel Disney or Pixar movie was able to accomplish beforehand.[[note]]For example, the aforementioned ''Toy Story 3'' seemed to air twice every four or five days, and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' played once a week during its premiere.[[/note]] Like the Lion King example on the Disney page, they often aired the movie twice in a row, which happened the day it premiered. But after a month or so, its exposure began to taper off, so ''Inside Out'' only aired once every four days, and only during the early morning or prime time. They reversed this in September of 2016, when the movie started to air on every weekend possible (with the first airing in a while playing the same day ''Theatre/DisneyOnIce Presents Follow Your Heart'' - which heavily features the main characters of ''Inside Out'' - made its world premiere). It took until December 23rd for Starz Kids to bring it back into daily rotation.
98** Ever since December 2018, the channel has aired the ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' movies every other day, sometimes twice in the same day.
99* [[Creator/DiscoveryFamily The Hub]]:
100** They used to like airing ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHouse'' nearly every month before moving on to ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''. ''WesternAnimation/Planet51'' was another victim of this trope.
101** When they got the rights to ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'', they would usually run it every other weekend. This died down around the time they got the rights to [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} the series it was based on]].
102** Shortly before the name change to Discovery Family, they aired ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls1'' on every major holiday, which isn't surprising since it's a channel half-owned by Hasbro. The tradition still continues to this day, to the point where as of November 2019, the movie will air every other weekend.
103*** The ''Equestria Girls'' films in general are adored by Discovery Family. Every weekend, the channel airs at least one of the movies.
104** As of July 2015, Discovery Family loves airing ''WesternAnimation/RaceForYourLifeCharlieBrown''. They will air it twice or more every week. During Christmas vacation of 2015, the movie aired once a day two weeks in a row!
105* Encore Kids and Family went through a phase in 2016 where they would run ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndTheMagicRailroad'' every month.
106* FX just loves showing off some Creator/DreamWorksAnimation movies every chance it gets. The first ''WesternAnimation/{{How to Train Your Dragon|2010}}'' movie, the ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' movies, and the entire ''Franchise/{{Madagascar}}'' trilogy are frequent favorites.
107** Just like its predecessor's example (shown [[AdoredByTheNetwork/{{Disney}} here]]) ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2'' seems to be another favorite on the FX networks.
108** FX will alternate between showing animated movies and those of the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' (or sometimes both) every single weekend, to the point where these two types of movies will occasionally show up on weekdays, usually during the summer months.
109** From December 22-27, 2019, the channel showed ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets'', with ''Trolls'' occasionally getting a second airing, usually during the late night hours.
110* Not even airlines are exempt from this trope:
111** American Airlines has kept ''WesternAnimation/{{Sing}}'' in their in-flight entertainment library for a longer time than any other film they have offered on their service. Usually, new movies on it will get removed two to three months after they are added, but ''Sing'' has stayed on the service for almost half a year. They also treated ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Ferdinand}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/SherlockGnomes'' in the same way.
112** Ever since 2015, Delta Airlines will have ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' as a featured movie for their Sky Kids library, usually when there's only one new kid's movie release to show.
113* Italian channel K2 airs cartoon movies every Monday night, with reruns during Saturday lunchtime and Sunday morning. With a few exceptions, most of their movie airings are either ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetFrankenstein'', ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetTheWolfman'', ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'', any ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' movie starting from ''Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea'', the ''Franchise/LuckyLuke'' films ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown Daisy Town]]'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'', or a compilation of the various DVD-only shorts based on [=DreamWorks=] movies (plus the ones made for ''Film/TheSmurfs'' and ''Franchise/DespicableMe'', for some reason).
114* UK channel ITV and its sister channel [=ITV2=] are known for frequently showing the ''Franchise/DespicableMe'' films.
115* Showtime's networks love airing ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'' more than any other animated film. This treatment has lasted since they got the rights to show the movie partway through the TurnOfTheMillennium.
116* Regal Cinemas, an American movie theater chain, loved showing ''WesternAnimation/JonahAVeggieTalesMovie'' every year as part of the Free Family Film Festival. It showed as part of the program for eight years in a row. This was likely because (up until 2012) the program paired G-rated movies with PG-rated ones, the fact Regal didn't show Creator/{{Disney}} movies as part of the program (as is standard procedure with free or cheap kids' summer movie programs of this type) and because G-rated movies were becoming rare at the time.
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119[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
120!!TV Channels
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122* Creator/{{RTE}} At one point in the early to mid 2010s ''Film/SpiderMan3'' was aired at least once every 2 weeks.
123** ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' is another favourite of RTE with frequent reairings. It is a guarantee that this film will be aired on that station sometime during any Christmas or Easter.
124** At one point, they were showing ''Film/DemolitionMan'' every three months.
125* Creator/{{HBO}} once stood for "Hey! ''[[Film/TheBeastmaster Beastmaster]]'''s On!". And it aired so often on Creator/{{TBS}} that it earned itself the nickname "[[FunWithAcronyms The Beastmaster Station]]".
126** HBO Zone really seems to like ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' since they can't go through an entire week without showing it at least ''three'' times.
127* Back in the early to mid-'90s, TBS also used to show ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}'' what seemed like every Saturday and Sunday.
128* TBS and TNT were notorious up until the late-2000s for overplaying ''Film/RoadHouse1989''.
129* It was almost impossible to turn on HBO in the early 1980s and not see ''Film/{{Scavenger Hunt|1979}}'' or ''Film/TheBlackHole''.
130* A Canadian example is Family Channel (Canada's Creator/DisneyChannel, not to be confused with the original name for Creator/ABCFamily), who went through a period at one point where the only movie they seemed to ever play was the ''Film/AroundTheWorldIn80Days2004'' remake with Creator/JackieChan.
131* In 2013, ''Mrs. Doubtfire'' became Creator/{{CMT}}'s favorite movie. Apparently, four other networks that year couldn't get enough of Creator/RobinWilliams' cross-dressing shenanigans, which led it to become [[http://press.ihs.com/press-release/design-supply-chain/movie-consumption-grows-basic-cable-logging-more-hours-and-airtime the most frequently played film on basic cable in 2013, with 66 airings!]]
132* Local Atlanta station Peachtree TV (WPCH, formerly [[Creator/{{TBS}} WTBS]]), appears to have a particular fetish for certain films which are played over and over and over on a regular basis, and this has been going on for years. Examples include ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'', ''Film/AFewGoodMen'', and the ''Film/LethalWeapon'' movies.
133** For a few years, ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' was shown on the channel every weekend. There was even a joke about it on an episode of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''.
134*** Ever since Labor Day weekend of 2018, Paramount Network will show ''The Breakfast Club'' not only every weekend and as a NoHoperRepeat during holidays, but to fill time during the late-night hours of the day that they cannot fill with more reruns of ''Series/{{Cops}}'' or ''Series/BarRescue''. ''Film/{{Battleship}}'' and to a lesser extent ''Film/{{Unstoppable}}'' are also given the same treatment.
135* From 2005 until 2013, Creator/{{Spike|TV}} frequently showed ''Franchise/StarWars'' marathons, showing all of the first six films, roughly every third weekend. In later years, it was during holidays (such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, etc.), or to promote some new ''Star Wars''-related products (such as ''The Old Republic''). Following Creator/{{Disney}}'s acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012, Spike chose not to renew their agreement for the movies, causing them to be left off the air for several years while Disney tried to shop the package around. As of September 2016, the Special Editions of the films are now airing on TNT and TBS after Disney and Turner inked a deal for the package (a separate deal for ''Film/ANewHope'' had to be inked with 20th Century Fox due to the Copyright Act of 1976).
136** There was one point where the channel had a fascination with ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow''.
137*** As of October 2015, the network will show the entire ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' series every weekend, as well as on holidays and days when kids have school off.
138** After the network rebranded to Creator/{{Paramount|Network}}, it began absolutely saturating its schedule with the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' series, and to a lesser extent ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop''.
139*** Ever since the fall of 2020, they'll take any weekend they can to air ''Film/TheGodfather'' trilogy.
140* Creator/{{Freeform}}:
141** Freeform milked ''Film/HarryPotter'' marathons even more frequently than Spike did with ''Star Wars''. In almost every season of the year, there is a ''Harry Potter'' marathon. They would often take it to the max whenever another ''Harry Potter'' film was being released to theaters. In 2018, the title of ''The Harry Potter Network'' shifted to Creator/USANetwork and some of its sister networks within [=NBCUniversal=] as part of a new rights deal.
142** During the annual "13[=/=]31 Nights of Halloween", Freeform ''loves'' to play repeat airings of ''Film/HocusPocus''; [[https://freeform.go.com/31-nights-of-halloween/news/the-official-31-nights-of-halloween-2019-movie-schedule for the 2019 edition]], Freeform will air ''Hocus Pocus'' 36 times, with a repeat marathon on UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve.
143* Whichever network(s) currently holds rerun rights to Film/JamesBond films goes crazy running them as often as possible before the tide changes. In TheNineties, TBS and TNT cornered the market on marathon runs of Bond movies (to the point that there was a joke about it in ''Film/AmericanBeauty''), followed by AMC for a little while at the TurnOfTheMillennium. After that, the status of "James Bond Network" rotated between Creator/{{Spike|TV}}, the Encore movie networks (at least ''three times'', the main channel showed a different one every night in prime time for a month, while sister channels Action, Suspense, etc. got in on the fun by sprinkling the films throughout their schedules), and G4. As of 2016, they're being batted between MGM HD, BBC America, and, to a smaller extent, ION Television. Note that this package generally covers the first '''20''' films plus the unofficial entry ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain'', so even if networks have to split them up, they aren't just rerunning 3-4 films over and over.
144** Creator/DanielCraig-era ''Bond'' movies seem to have been handed over to USA Network after it decided to retire its longstanding status as ''Film/{{The Mummy|Trilogy}}'' Network!
145*** In the UK, Creator/{{ITV}} had them from 1975 through 2012, when they were acquired by the premium channel Sky Movies. They then took Adored by the Network to its obvious conclusion in October 2012 by [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/07/james-bond-sky-movies-007 turning one of its channels into Sky Movies 007]], dedicated exclusively to airing the films (and other documentaries/behind the scenes features) in honor of the 50th anniversary of the ''Bond'' movie franchise and the release of ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''. The channel was temporarily taken down in November 2012 to make way for its annual [[ChristmasMoviesIndex all-Christmas movies]] channel but came back off and on throughout 2013. ITV has since got the rights back.
146* The summer of 2012 saw the Encore movie networks become addicted to the Creator/ChristopherReeve ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' films. It tapered off as the year saw itself out, but well into early 2013, one of them could still be guaranteed to run ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace'' several times each month. That film is extremely short, so it was probably easy to slot into schedules.
147** The Encore networks (particularly Encore Family) were devoted to the original nine-film run of ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'' series in 2013.
148* There also existed a channel that played the film ''Film/{{Rudy}}'' for 24 hours straight in some areas.
149* ''Franchise/DieHard'': The films ([[FirstInstallmentWins especially the original]]) get this nearly every year. Heck, even Creator/{{Spike|TV}} aired the original couple years back with a ''24-hour marathon!''
150* Since the late 1990s, TBS has aired an annual 24-hour marathon of ''Film/AChristmasStory'', Christmas Eve night to Christmas Day night. Granted, it's a beloved holiday classic that was VindicatedByCable in the first place. It's also used to give most of their employees Christmas off. When that's all you're showing, all you need is a bare-bones staff to make sure the building doesn't burn down.
151** ''Film/MenInBlack'' and its first sequel are also adored by TBS.
152** It seems as if TBS can't go a month without showing ''Film/DumbAndDumber''...
153** ...and ''Film/TheHangover'', but nearly every channel has the rights to both.
154** TBS will show ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' every Thanksgiving and Christmas. Sometimes, they will show it TWICE during the same week.
155* Speaking of ''Film/MenInBlack'', ''every'' channel adores airing the movie itself, including the sequel to a lesser extent.
156* For years, Telemundo would often use any major holiday as an excuse to play back-to-back Creator/{{Cantinflas}} movies. Though this is akin to a Creator/RobertDeNiro marathon, in that it's not the repeat of the same movie or the same series of movies but a bunch of movies with similar flavors.
157* For some reason, Creator/DisneyXD has an inordinate fondness for the ''Film/ArthurAndTheInvisibles'' trilogy.
158* Creator/{{BET}} used to air ''Film/LoveAndBasketball'' frequently and with very little provocation, and seemed obliged to do so every Valentine's Day. However, after Monica Wright and Kevin Durant split, the novelty cooled off, and demand for the movie's broadcast followed suit.
159* Several cable channels in the U.S. and U.K. (Encore, AMC, and Sky among them) have aired 24 hours of ''Film/GroundhogDay'' on Groundhog Day. [[JustifiedTrope This actually makes sense considering what the film's about]]!
160* Early Creator/ComedyCentral had a deep and abiding love affair with ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' in the mid-1990s.
161** Until about 2002 it was shocking if a week went by without them airing the 1986 bomb ''Film/StewardessSchool''.
162** Another movie that Comedy Central adored back then was the 1988 film ''Glitch''.
163* For years, ''Film/IndependenceDay'' was Fox's go-to movie whenever a big event was happening on another network: Super Bowl, Oscars, etc. In fact, ''Independence Day'' airs often on ''every'' station that gets the rights to it, especially the Viacom channels (A&E, CMT, Spike, VH1), E!, and AMC. Around 2009, Creator/{{TBS}}, Creator/{{TNT}} ''and'' Creator/WGNAmerica played it constantly while Creator/MyNetworkTV ran it as a Sunday night movie and The CW on a Saturday afternoon.
164* Every time a ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequel was released, Australia's Fox-affiliated Channel 10 showed the original trilogy over three weekends and promoted the crap out of it, often book-ending commercial breaks with two promos for the same film. It's an older example, but it checks out.
165* IFC really loves the ''Film/{{Hostel}}'' movies, ''Film/TheShining'', and the first ''Film/{{Alien}}''.
166* At the TurnOfTheMillennium after Creator/{{AMC}} stopped emphasizing classic movies but before they had original series such as ''Series/MadMen'', ''Series/BreakingBad'', and ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'', the network went through different phases where they played the same movie practically every day for months until they found a new movie to obsess over and the cycle began anew. Examples included (but were not limited to):
167** ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}''.
168** ''Film/KingKong1976''
169** ''Film/{{Earthquake}}''
170** ''Film/{{Ghost|1990}}''
171** ''Film/{{Jaws}}''
172** ''[[Film/RedDawn1984 Red Dawn]]''
173** ''[[Film/HistoryoftheWorldPartI History of the World: Part I]]''
174** ''Film/JeremiahJohnson''
175** ''Hannie Caulder'' in 2003.
176** ''Film/MadMax'' popped up almost daily in the spring/summer of 2005.
177** ''[[Creator/SamPeckinpah Major Dundee]]'' (albeit the [[ExecutiveMeddling studio-imposed]] cut) turned up almost weekly from 2004-2006.
178** Every Halloween, expect ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives'' and ''Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers'' to appear many, many times.
179** During the Christmas season in 2012, the network showed the original ''Film/MiracleOnThirtyFourthStreet'' more than any other holiday movie. In second place was the Creator/GeorgeCScott version of ''Film/{{A Christmas Carol|1984}}'' and third was ''Film/WhiteChristmas''.
180** By contrast, the Christmas programming for 2013 consisted entirely of the ''Home Alone'' movies, ''White Christmas'', and ''Film/{{Jack Frost 1998}}''.
181** In 2014, AMC replayed ''Film/TheGreenMile'' almost as frequently as the movies they played on the network 10 years ago.
182** In TheNewTens, AMC created a tradition similar to the 24-hour ''Christmas Story'' marathons by playing ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' on a loop starting the day before Thanksgiving and leading up to the next morning.
183** Even pre-NetworkDecay AMC wasn't immune to this; during the summer of 2001, they played ''Film/TheAfricanQueen'' several times.
184* Britain's Creator/{{ITV}} channels have a few favorites:
185** ITV 2 airs ''Film/TheMummy1999'' and/or most of its sequels every other month. Among its other favourites are ''Film/WildWildWest'', ''Film/Catwoman2004'', and [[Film/{{Hulk}} both Incredible]] [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008 Hulk films]].
186*** They are also well-known for constantly showing ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' and ''Film/HotFuzz'', to the point where even Creator/EdgarWright himself [[https://mobile.twitter.com/edgarwright/status/1096887981200281600 is aware of it.]]
187*** On weekends, their movie selection mainly consists of the ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' trilogy, the ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' films and ''Film/KindergartenCop''.
188*** Whenever it is Christmas, there will be many showings of ''Film/LoveActually'' each week. In the past, it would also be frequently shown outside of the festive period.
189** ITV 4 once had a thing for the ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' series.
190* TNT and USA are both very bad about going through phases where they'll show the same movie over and over and over again, whether it's ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' on TNT or ''Film/NationalTreasure'' on USA - if either of them shows the movie once, you know you'll be seeing it again within the week.
191* Ted Turner adored ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption''. He owned the rights at one point, so after its poor showing at the box office, his networks aired it weekly, single-handedly making it VindicatedByCable.
192* FX adores the original ''Film/{{The Day The Earth Stood Still|1951}}''.
193** Have a day off from school or work? Chances are ''Film/VantagePoint'' is playing this morning on FX.
194** ''Film/IronMan1'' has started to become a staple movie on FX.
195*** Practically ''every'' movie based on Marvel Comics are FX staples.
196* ION Television ''loves'' Creator/ClintEastwood movies, playing them practically every other weekend.
197** The weekends they ''don't'' play Clint Eastwood movies, they've instead been playing Batman and Superman movies, with an inexplicable preference for ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' and ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace''.
198* Surprisingly, for a Canadian niche channel, [[Creator/SpaceChannel Space]] subverted this in its early years. Someone must have dug through the dusty trash archives of Hollywood to come up with the weird, obscure, "new" movies they played every weekend. The height of this was a month-long event where every weekend they would play three rat-themed horror movies.
199* From late-2011 until early-2013, the programming director at Creator/TurnerClassicMovies was obsessed with Creator/{{Nicholas Ray}} movies, and played his near-forgotten 1963 epic ''Film/FiftyFiveDaysAtPeking'' at least once every other month. This was odd since it's rare that TCM plays a movie more than a few times a year (owing to its enormous library).
200** There are also phases when TCM can't get enough of ''Film/MyFairLady''. It played almost monthly in 2010, and again since October 2012 (with as many as two airings per month).
201** ''Film/DoctorZhivago'' and ''Film/CitizenKane'' have been getting this treatment for years. This is understandable given their popularity and acclaim. Why the comparatively-obscure ''Film/TheWindAndTheLion'' gets nearly as much air time is anyone's guess.
202** It seems as though they're doing the same with ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia''. And ''Film/NowVoyager''.
203** ''Film/LeaveHerToHeaven'' has also been getting a lot of airtime on the channel. Considering that it's one of TCM host Robert Osborne's favorite movies, that alone may be the reason for its overexposure.
204** TCM has so much fondness for Creator/BarbaraStanwyck that her movies play hundreds of times per year.
205* It was impossible to watch Fox Movie Channel in 2011 without running into some combination of ''Film/TheReturnOfFrankJames'', ''Film/TheDesertFox'' and/or ''Royal Flash''.
206* There was a period in 2012 where Starz seemed to run ''Film/FriendsWithBenefits'' every day. In 2013, it became ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan''; in 2014, [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2 its sequel.]]
207** In Starz' defense, they don't seem to have as many licensing deals with movie studios as HBO does.
208* For a while, it seemed as if Creator/{{E}}'s only defense against a day of dead air is rerunning ''Film/HesJustNotThatIntoYou'' sandwiched between multiple rerun blocks of Kardashian shows and ''Series/SexAndTheCity''.
209* Creator/VH1 showed ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'' and ''Film/GhostbustersII'' on a frequent basis for years after they started broadcasting more programs not dedicated to music. They usually showed the movies in cropped formats, meaning their pictures were not shown in their entirety (the second movie was usually shown in the 16:9 aspect ratio unlike the first movie, which was usually shown in the 4:3 aspect ratio, even after VH-1 started showing the second movie on a frequent basis).
210* Spanish cable channel Canal Hollywood based its two or three first broadcasting years on ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' reruns.
211* ''Literature/TheBlueLagoon'' has gained infamy in Brazil, due to constantly being broadcast on the country's biggest network for several years, to the point of MemeticMutation.
212* The Canadian Bravo channel has a fixation with the [[Film/TheBourneSeries Bourne movies]].
213* Ever since The Hub got its hands on ''Film/GoodBoy'', they would show it once a week like clockwork.
214* Australian TV network "ten" developed a great fondness for ''Film/{{Terminator 2|JudgmentDay}}''. Before that, it was ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'', and it used to play ''Film/TheDevilWearsPrada'' once a month at least.
215* Is today the day before a major holiday? Then chances are that TV Guide Network has an airing of ''Film/TheMirrorHasTwoFaces'' planned.
216* Since at least the fall of 2014, Viacom cable channel programmers have been suffering from an ''Film/{{Elf}}'' obsession, telecasting the film frequently across CMT, MTV, and Creator/VH1, even when the holiday season is over. (CMT even played it in ''September''!)
217** And now even Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} is airing the film when it's not Christmas as of March 2019!
218* As of June 2015, the LAFF network has been devoted to airing ''Film/TheLoveBug'' and its sequels on a frequent basis.
219** As of October 2016, Laff's go-to movies include the Creator/ChrisElliott comedy ''Film/CabinBoy'' and the forgotten ''Holy Man'' starring Creator/EddieMurphy.
220** As of July 2019, Laff's obsession appears to be the obscure indie romcoms ''Love's Kitchen'', ''A Date with Miss Fortune'' and ''For the Love of George'', most likely due to them being very inexpensive to air. The 80s Creator/MarkHarmon vehicle ''Summer School'' pops up almost every other weekend. And since Warner Bros. started licensing some of their movie titles to the network, every weekend Laff airs the first ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' movie and/or ''Film/BlazingSaddles''.
221* Encore Family seems to really love the 1969 movie ''Film/MySideOfTheMountain''.
222* Ever since they got the rights to the ''Film/LookWhosTalking'' trilogy in December of 2015, Starz Kids will air at least one film from the series a day, with the second one being the most frequently shown. It got to the point where they aired nothing but the entire series of films for 48 hours during New Year's.
223* Creator/NickAtNite: Their “Thursday Night Movie” block as of March 2016 seems to adore as many "not quite hit, not quite BoxOfficeBomb" movies as possible, from ''[[Film/{{Garfield}} Garfield: A Tail Of Two Kitties]]'' to ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' and [[Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed its sequel]] (ironically the latter two movies are ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' ones, a franchise that is usually adored by Nick's [[Creator/CartoonNetwork competitor]] and their [[Creator/{{Boomerang}} sister channel]]). It’s gotten to the point where DirectToVideo productions such as ''WesternAnimation/OpenSeason 3'' have aired.
224* Just about any Creator/TylerPerry movie- or more specifically, any Madea movie is played ''ad nauseam'', all across cable. ''Madea's Witness Protection'', ''Madea's Big Happy Family'', and ''Madea Goes to Jail'' in particular are played to death, but it's also common to see the movies where she is not the central character (e.g. ''Diary of a Mad Black Woman''). Even the two ''Boo!'' movies and ''A Madea Christmas'' are played frequently throughout the year- keep in mind, these are ''holiday films''. For a while, the Turner networks, namely TBS, TNT, and Peachtree TV were particularly fond of them, but as of the late 2010s, the Viacom channels (particularly BET) have taken that mantle.
225* Ovation often shows various movies from The80s and The90s such as ''Film/RomancingTheStone'', ''Film/AFewGoodMen'', ''Gross Pointe Blank'', and most bafflingly, ''Film/LegendsOfTheFall'' [[note]]the latter of which has a "rotten" rating on Website/RottenTomatoes[[/note]].
226* Going along with the aforementioned examples of premium channels above, said channels in general will constantly air the same films over and over to the point that they can be seen every week, if not ''every day''. If a movie premieres on one of the channels (typically on Friday), you can expect it to air several more times throughout the weekend into the next week.
227* Every other week on FXX, the channel seems to love showing the famously tearjerking film ''Film/TheFaultInOurStars'', particularly before marathons of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' reruns.
228* Ever since it made a ChannelHop from the premium channels to TBS and TNT, the latter have shown ''Film/AntMan1'' almost ''every single week'', usually on Fridays and the subsequent weekend. Ditto for ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''.
229* If there is absolutely nothing for them to air at all in terms of actual events, Golf Channel will often fall back on ''Film/TinCup'' or ''Film/TheLegendOfBaggerVance'' like clockwork.
230* Creator/NineNetwork shows ''Film/CantStopTheMusic'' once a year on New Year's Day; unlike in most of the world it was a box office hit in Australia back in the day.
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234* In UsefulNotes/{{France}}, the movie theater chain UGC ''loves'' Creator/ChristopherNolan, so much so that in their annual "UGC Culte" cycle of re-releases, there's invariably two Nolan films (something no other director usually gets), one of which is invariably ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' (the other is often either ''Film/{{Inception}}'' or ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'').
235* Ever since ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'', Creator/{{Paramount}} films aimed at families have been heavily promoted by US movie theater chain Regal Cinemas. Chances are if there's a film coming up by them, not only will they put the trailer on every family film, but they will also use it to advertise the Regal Crown Club card. Perhaps the most noteworthy example was ''Film/DoraAndTheLostCityOfGold'', which not only got the usual "trailer on every family-oriented movie" and Regal Crown Club treatment, but it was also the sponsor for that year's ''Stars of Hope'' program, had featurettes play in the ''Noovie'' preshow, was featured in their 2019 Regal Unlimited ad and even had the trailer play on several movies not aimed at families, most notably ''Film/HobbsAndShaw''.
236* Not even airlines are exempt from this trope. As of July 2023, Air Canada has had ''You Will Remember Me'', a 2020 film about an academic who begins to suffer from dementia, in their New Releases tab long after all the other films from 2020-21 were phased out of the tab. Given that it's a Canadian film and the airline, like most other entertainment services across the country, needs to fulfill a minimum amount of Canadian content, this is justified.
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240* Music/NickDrake: When Joe Boyd sold his Witchseason Productions to Creator/IslandRecords, he stipulated that Nick's albums had to remain in print. The arrangement apparently carried over when Island was bought by Polygram, despite the low sales figures. His albums remaining in print is cited as one reason why Nick built up his posthumous cult following over the years.
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244* Wrestling/{{WCW}} itself was adored not so much by the network, but by Ted Turner himself. It was his baby/vanity project, as he credited WCW's predecessor, Georgia Championship Wrestling, with helping get [=SuperStation=] [[Creator/{{TBS}} WTBS]] noticed in its early days (along with Atlanta Braves baseball). The fact that it lost money for most of its existence was of no concern to him since, for someone like Ted, the amount of money that WCW lost was never more than pocket change. It operated at a mild loss for years while garnering steady viewership, which made it a fair investment in terms of ratings (most television shows don't have a potential income stream besides advertising, so any profit WCW made from tickets and pay per view buys was basically a bonus from the network's perspective). However, WCW was most definitely not adored by an AOL Time Warner exec named Jamie Kellner, who within a few weeks on the job cancelled all professional wrestling related programming. By that time, ratings had plunged below many syndicated shows and the company itself was losing $50+ million per year with no end in sight, which for an executive looking to cut costs from unprofitable divisions, made WCW look like a big shiny target.
245* Wrestling/{{TNA}} on Challenge in the UK certainly seemed to be this at one point- they couldn't stop talking about it over the end credits of every programme (usually re-runs of game shows, some of which might not necessarily share the same audience as that TNA wrestling would appeal to).
246** After the company was bought by Anthem Sports and Entertainment, the company's programming has become a mainstay on "Live TV" streaming services targeting cord-cutters (that is, people who want to stop paying for cable), such as Creator/PlutoTV, Fubo, and Platform/YouTube TV. All of these services have dedicated TNA channels, and in some cases they're the only wrestling content available on the basic tier (or even at all). [[TropesAreTools This makes sense from a business standpoint for both the streaming services and TNA]]. The apps, who want to air wrestling as part of an "all-in-one" entertainment package, get a large library of programming and name recognition that's leagues cheaper than other companies who have exclusivity deals with certain networks and companies (such as the WWE's deals with Fox and Comcast and AEW's deal with Warner). TNA, meanwhile, gets a wider reach: in a lot of countries their programming is either on higher-tier cable package or doesn't air at all, meaning that these deals are a good way to get the company's programming in places where it doesn't air.
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250* Professional sports in general. Immensely popular, sure, but try to imagine what it's like for people who don't like sports to have a program you have no interest in that can preempt the shows you DO want to watch seemingly at any time, rarely ends at the scheduled time (sometimes causing the next show to begin "in progress" or be skipped entirely), and when it does end and you think your show is about to start... here comes the ''post-game show.'' And then the other networks [[NoHoperRepeat only run reruns against it]] because they don't want to have to compete with the show "everyone" is watching. For that, you can blame ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Game Heidi]]''. Justified in many cases as networks pay A LOT of money in rights fees to air these games (the [=NFL's=] current rights deals are worth a total of '''$110 billion'''), so they need to get every penny they can in return.
251** This was actually lampshaded on the Series 16 premiere of ''Series/TopGearUK'' in January 2011:
252--->'''Jeremy Clarkson:''' Can I just say how nice it is to be back where we belong? Creator/{{BBC}}2, 8:00, Sunday night. Unless of course somebody's organized a snooker tournament, in which case, happy Easter!
253* [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball Football]] in the United States. If it's autumn and your network carries the [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague NFL]], expect a pop-up ad or commercial every five minutes reminding you when the next game is and who's playing. Those above problems with preemption? [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball MLB]] fans have the same problem each year when they're waiting for the World Series to start and Creator/{{Fox}} won't cut away from Curt Menefee and Terry Bradshaw yukking it up. Even on a general sports station like Creator/{{ESPN}}, the NFL will usually be promoted far more than anything else it carries.
254** When it comes to [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball college football]], ESPN practically ''[[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/sports/ncaafootball/college-footballs-most-dominant-player-its-espn.html?ref=media&_r=1& runs the show]]''; they have lucrative broadcast deals with many of the "Power Five" conferences in Division I FBS (with a particular adoration towards the ACC, SEC, and most recently, the Big 12), and many mid-major conference games on streaming or other channels such as [=ESPNU=]. ESPN chooses the kickoff times for its games, meaning nearly all of the college schedules at the start of the season have the time ''TBA'' everywhere. They even coded software used by the majority of the teams to help build their game schedules.In 2011, ESPN started an entire cable network devoted to the Texas Longhorns, then created the SEC Network in 2014, ACC Network in 2019, and also acquired the third-tier rights for almost all other Big 12 teams to form a "Big 12 Now" channel on its subscription ESPN+ service). During the post-season, they have broadcast rights to all but three bowl games (including the all-important College Football Playoff that also stole Fox's sole bowl game, the Cotton Bowl Classic, away from them, as if losing the BCS to them was bad enough) and even run ''fourteen of their own.'' Of the non-ESPN bowls, CBS has been long-time broadcaster of the Sun Bowl, Fox has the Holiday Bowl (it also had the Foster Farms Bowl before it became effectively defunct), and Barstool Sports has the Arizona Bowl. CBS lost the Cure Bowl to ESPN because ESPN Events bought the game, while CBS Sports Network previously had the Arizona Bowl. NFL Network airs some of the all-star games with potential NFL prospects, such as the Senior Bowl).
255*** Speaking of which, ESPN has a fondness for the likes of top SEC football teams such as Alabama, Florida and Georgia, and to a lesser extent, Auburn, LSU, Tennessee and Texas A&M, but tends to dislike the other teams (including Kentucky and Ole Miss, who have been having better seasons in the last several years). Historically, ESPN has also frequently given the Mid-American Conference mid-week primetime games to the point of MemeticMutation among its fans.
256*** The same can also be said for ESPN's coverage of men's college UsefulNotes/{{basketball}} games with Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina, Kansas, and to a lesser extent, Indiana and Ohio State who are being featured more often than other teams. For example, just about every ESPN Super Tuesday game features Kentucky versus whichever team Kentucky is facing that day.
257* Since (re-)acquiring the rights to [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] coverage in 2002,[[note]]ESPN also aired NBA games in 1982–84[[/note]] ESPN has [[https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nba/news/espn-nba-finals-coverage-contract-tv-shows-deal/10x2uz354ndr41pnyg8sqadm5l devoted a very large amount of its programming to the league]]; not just actual game coverage, but extensive NBA discussions on its studio shows, plenty of in-game promos on other events, etc. As you might expect, this tends to draw considerable criticism from viewers who aren't NBA fans. Baseball fans, in particular, haven't been able to help noticing the degree to which ESPN's increased focus on the NBA has [[https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/latest-moves-suggest-espn-prioritizing-nba-coverage-de-emphasizing-mlb.html come at the expense of the network's once-substantial MLB coverage]].
258* Speaking of baseball, due to its then-extensive coverage of MLB's October postseason, there was a stretch of time starting around the turn of the millennium in which Fox had to delay the season premiere of many of its shows until after the end of the World Series to accommodate its coverage. This meant that fans of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''Series/TheXFiles'', for example, had to wait until ''November'' to see new episodes. Starting in 2005, the network returned to launching its major shows in September -- but the Series still prevented ''The Simpsons''[='=] annual [[WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror Halloween Episode]] from airing until after the holiday had come and gone. To rub salt in the wounds of American ''Simpsons'' fans disinterested in baseball, some countries even had a ShortRunInPeru by airing the ''Treehouse of Horror'' a few weeks before the American airing, such as when "Treehouse of Horror XXXI" first aired on Canada's Citytv on October 18, 2020. Since 2006, almost the entire postseason is now cable-only: as of 2014, when MLB's current TV contract was signed, the Fox Sports 1 channel splits the Division Series and League Championship Series with Creator/{{TBS}} (alternating between the American League and National League each year), with the only postseason games still broadcast on "Big Fox" being the World Series and the opening game of whichever LCS Fox Sports 1 is covering.
259** Note that even Canada isn't immune to this, given that the rightsholder to first-run ''Simpsons'' episodes there is Citytv, owned by Rogers Communications, which also owns both [=MLB's=] Toronto Blue Jays and Sportsnet, itself an example of this trope as Sportsnet is the sole rightsholder to all Toronto Blue Jays broadcasts in Canada and Sportsnet considers anything related to the Toronto Blue Jays the highest priority for them. If the Toronto Blue Jays were to make the World Series while Fox's World Series contract is active, then per simsub rules, ''Treehouse of Horror'' would also be pre-empted by the World Series on Citytv using the Fox feed, albeit with Canadian commercials, while Sportsnet would use its own broadcast.
260* Certain cities get this too. If you're watching a national TV game in any team sport in the U.S. it's a pretty safe bet one (or both) of the teams will be from New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, or Boston.
261* UsefulNotes/{{Tennis}} on Eurosport. Go to any forum of a particular sport that isn't Association Football (or Tennis obviously) and you are guaranteed to find that most European fans there absolutely despise Tennis for the sole reason that they've spent large chunks of the last 20 years wanting to watch their favorite sport but not able to, as Eurosport was preempting it with an overtimed Tennis match, usually from the lower rounds of some unimportant tournament. Cycling and Basketball fans are especially prone to fly into a rage from this.
262** Spanish public channel Teledeporte is even worse than Eurosport. Not only do they air lots and lots of tennis matches but, when tournament day is over, they rerun the same matches you have previously seen. In occasions, they even have show delayed official matches of Spanish national teams (Handball, Hockey, Waterpolo...) to broadcast a live first-round tennis match between two unknown non-Spaniard players. So, it's not strange that many people give the channel the nickname ''Tele Tenis''.
263* In Canada, [[UsefulNotes/IceHockey ice hockey]] has pretty much always been the most-aired sport on Creator/{{CBC}}, Sportsnet, and TSN. [[SeriousBusiness This really shouldn't be much surprise in Canada]]. What's more, there are network favourites among the teams. Before ''Hockey Night in Canada'' switched to an early/late game doubleheader broadcast in 1995, if you wanted to watch any Canadian team that wasn't the Maple Leafs or the Canadiens, you either had to hope they were playing against Toronto or Montreal, or that they'd made the playoffs and Toronto or Montreal weren't playing that night. The absurdity of this is indicated by the fact that in the mid-1980s, when Usefulnotes/WayneGretzky and the Edmonton Oilers were the best team in the league, it was almost impossible for someone in Eastern Canada to ever see them on TV.
264** In a more specific example, TSN has ''always'' hyped the IIHF World Junior Championships (the top international under-20 competition, which traditionally begins on the day after Christmas), as being Canada's holiday sports tradition (much like ESPN's endless bowl games of varying significance). The profile of the tournament had already begun to grow after the infamous 1987 edition, where Canada and the Soviet Union were ejected after a slash on Theo Fleury resulted in a 20-minute line brawl -- getting both countries kicked out of the tournament, and denying Canada a gold medal in the process[[note]](At the time, the tournament was purely a round robin event, and Canada could have clinched in that game if they won and scored at least 5 goals)[[/note]] Canada has won the tournament 20 times, with two stretches of having won five consecutive tournaments in a row. It's gotten to the point that any game involving Team Canada, especially if they are [[TheRival playing Russia or the United States]], reach the final, or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs reach the final, playing Russia or the United States]], is guaranteed to have a good television audience. When the tournament is hosted by Canada (which happens quite a bit), these scenarios frequently result in sell-out crowds, especially in the three aforementioned scenarios.
265*** By contrast, the Ice Hockey World Championships (its counterpart for professional players) is generally not considered to be as important in North America as it is elsewhere because it [[DuelingShows falls during the NHL's Stanley Cup Playoffs]]. Top American and Canadian players typically remain committed to their NHL teams if they make the playoffs, and a chance to make the men's national team tends to be a consolation prize for losing in the first round or not making the playoffs at all. This worked to Canada's advantage in 2015, as star player Sidney Crosby was able to join the national team when Pittsburgh got eliminated in round 1. They [[CurbStompBattle promptly crushed every opponent they met]], including Russia in the final: critics were quick to point out that Canada's dream team would be impossible to form in the NHL because it was ''way'' over the salary cap. While they do compete for attention, most IIHF championship games are scheduled for the afternoon and evening hours in Europe, and do not directly compete with most NHL playoff games (which prefer primetime windows).
266* UsefulNotes/{{Cricket}} in Australia, especially Test cricket. For those who don't know, Test cricket matches can last for ''five days straight''. They'll always be there on Seven and Fox, every summer, and the breaks will usually be filled with highlights/recaps/analyses.
267* That football/soccer gets this in Brazil shouldn't be surprising. But this wound up starting to make Usefulnotes/FormulaOne ScrewedByTheNetwork in TheNewTens, as whenever the races started overlapping with the Brazilian Championship the broadcaster would send the race to its pay TV sister channel.
268* Creator/{{NBC}} and its related networks have been the exclusive U.S. television home for the Summer UsefulNotes/OlympicGames since 1988, and for the Winter Games since 2002. They're contracted to keep airing them through at least 2032.
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272* Goodsmile Company really, ''really'' love their Nendoroid line. The chibi art style and how small they are make them perfect for the Japanese market, while the ease of manufacturing and lack of engineering make them easier to make than other figures/figurines. If you're into poseable figures, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's all GSC make, because they generally neglect their Figma line these days.
273* Creator/Hasbro has a handful of action figure lines aimed at adult collectors, but their baby is and will always be ''Transformers'', specifically ''Generations'' and ''Studio Series''. Since ''Transformers'' is a Hasbro creation, there's no licensing cost involved, and they can do what they want with the property without any oversight. Because the brand has a wide-ranging appeal and is very long-lived, there's always an audience for a character and a deep well to pull from.
274* [=McFarlane=] Toys:
275** The company really likes Spawn, for [[Creator/ToddMcFarlane obvious reasons]]. Spawn figures ended up hijacking the ''Mortal Kombat 11'' line before a proper Spawn line was created.
276** For their ''DC Multiverse'' line, the company '''loves''' Batman. There are more figures of Batman, his allies and rogues than the rest of the line ''combined'', to the point that it's become a surprise when the company goes a month without announcing a new Batman.
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280* Over the years, the console makers have shown obvious biases towards specific third-party companies during specific eras. Examples include Creator/{{Nintendo}} favoring Creator/{{Konami}} and Creator/{{Capcom}} during the days of the NES and SNES, Creator/SonyInteractiveEntertainment heavily promoting Creator/SquareEnix's titles during the [=PS1=] and [=PS2=] eras, and both Nintendo and Creator/XboxGameStudios giving indie developers such as Creator/YachtClubGames (developers of ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'') and Studio MDHR (creators of ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'') lots of attention during the days of the Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.
281* For close to a decade, Creator/ValveSoftware treated ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' as its flagship property, releasing new major updates every few months and at-least-weekly patches to deal with the pileup of bugs and balance issues that inevitably resulted. The flow of new content only increased after they launched the Mannconomy Update, which gave members of the community the opportunity to create new items for the game. This, combined with the sequel to ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' that was rushed through development in less than a year, eventually led to accusations that they were abandoning their other franchises (mainly ''VideoGame/HalfLife'') to focus on the most profitable ones.
282** Ironically, once ''VideoGame/{{Dota 2}}'' and ''VideoGame/CounterStrike: Global Offensive'' released, they quickly took over as the company's main focus, to the point of eventually abandoning ''Team Fortress 2'' itself to updates that consist solely of community-made content. Infamously, this led to the game being [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjHyS3thSvU overrun by bots that would blatantly cheat and votekick any real humans that tried to join]], rendering it completely unplayable unless you had a private server to play on.
283** It should be noted that both ''Dota 2'' and ''Counter-Strike'' have active competitive scenes, with ''Team Fortress 2'' still holding on in that department as well. On a meta level, Valve is often seen as focusing on the e-sports scene to the exclusion of all else--for example, when ''Counter-Strike 2'' was released as a replacement for ''Global Offensive'' (and we do mean replacement; it completely erased ''Global Offensive'' from players' computers), it only included the standard 6-vs-6 gamemodes that are played in tournaments. No Arms Race, War Games, or Danger Zone. And even at the height of ''Team Fortress 2'''s bot scandal, Valve continued promoting the e-sports events that were conveniently unaffected by the issue.
284* Blizzard Entertainment was seen to suffer from this as well, as they worked on various ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' games and expansions for almost a decade straight before ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'' and ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' were announced. (The one ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' product in the making, ''Ghost'', became VaporWare.) Lately, they've completely flipped this trope on the head, and seem to be just gushing new games -- ''Reaper of Souls'', ''Hearthstone'', and ''Heroes of the Storm'' all within a year of each other.
285** In the late '90s, this seemed to be the reverse case for Blizzard, with all their efforts directed towards Starcraft + Expansions, and Diablo 2 + Expansions. Other than an upgraded re-release of ''VideoGame/WarcraftIITidesOfDarkness'' that allowed you to play on Battle.net, ''Warcraft'' wasn't getting much love until ''VideoGame/WarcraftIIIReignOfChaos'' was finally released.
286* Creator/SquareEnix is fond of the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' franchise, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' in particular.
287** As well as ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'', which have been ported or remade for Platform/{{MSX2}}, Platform/WonderSwan Color, Platform/PlayStation, Platform/GameBoyAdvance, mobile phones, [=PlayStation=] Portable, Virtual Console, [=PlayStation=] Network and iOS. This is perhaps due to both games being are the most simple in the series. They include little to no plot, a few enemies (for a final fantasy game), a few classes (6 in FFI[[note]]Fighter, Thief, Black Belt, and the White, Red, and Black Magi[[/note]], none in FFII) and the game mechanics in general are simple. In contrast, the more complex games hardly ever see the light, most likely since they are not as easy to make as I or II but not as popular as IV or VI.
288** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' is another example, it being ported or remade for Platform/PlayStation, Platform/WonderSwan Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Virtual Console, FOMA 903i / 703i and [=PlayStation=] Portable.
289** Understandably, ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' is a CashCowFranchise for SE, and justly widely enjoyed. However, true to this effect, it has a habit of overshadowing other efforts that the company occasionally puts forth. The game ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' was hit particularly hard by this, when its budget and production schedule slashed in favor of the soon-to-be-released ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII''.
290** And starring in 2015, ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'' has become this, and marked their admiration of episodic games.
291* Creator/{{Ubisoft}}:
292** ''VideoGame/Rayman2TheGreatEscape'', originally released on PC and Platform/Nintendo64, then ported to the Platform/PlayStation, Platform/SegaDreamcast, Platform/PlayStation2, Platform/NintendoDS, iOS and Platform/Nintendo3DS. And that's without counting the Platform/GameBoyColor game as well as the Platform/GameBoyAdvance version of ''Rayman 3'' (which is [[DolledUpInstallment in fact]] a 2D ''Rayman 2'' game with Dark Lums and other ''Rayman 3'' elements hastily slapped in.)
293** ''VideoGame/RaymanOrigins'' seems to be heading the same route. It was initially released for Platform/{{Playstation 3}}, Platform/{{Xbox 360}}, and Platform/{{Wii}}, then was later ported to Platform/{{Steam}}, Platform/PlaystationVita, and Platform/Nintendo3DS. Then there's the [=iPhone=]/Android game ''Rayman Jungle Run'', which is based on ''Origins''.
294** Nowadays, it seems like the only things Ubisoft is willing to publish are games in the ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' series and worse, they've come so frequently and so close together that several bugs rear their heads in later releases such as ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity Unity]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate Syndicate]]''. A similar case happened to the more LighterAndSofter ''VideoGame/JustDance'', which caused both of them to have an ArchivePanic problem.
295* ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'' for the Super Famicom has gotten four remakes: first for the [=PlayStation=], second for the Game Boy Advance, third for the [=PlayStation=] Portable, and fourth again for the [=PlayStation=] Portable with updated battle graphics as part of ''Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X''. Unfortunately, only the Game Boy Advance version, widely considered the weakest version, was the only one that had seen an official English version until the since-removed [=iOS=] version, which isn't thought of too fondly, either.
296* ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'' has the Squeal of Fortune [[note]]a simple wheel spin that gives prizes[[/note]] and Solomon's General Store [[note]]a store where you can buy cosmetic items and emotes[[/note]]. Most players hate them, but Jagex is in love with them ([[MoneyDearBoy for obvious reasons]]) and updates them once or twice a week, giving each update huge amounts of fanfare.
297* Most games from Creator/AeriaGames tend to get this treatment when they first get it...and then [[ScrewedByTheNetwork goes in the opposite direction]] once it leaves open, or even closed beta. There are a large number of games with [[GameBreakingBug game-breaking bugs]] that don't seem to be fixed for months, driving people away from the game, eventually getting it tossed completely. Very few games escape this fate, and these tend to have a somewhat more permanent spot for this trope. So much, they advertise them and their new games in their dying games forums.
298* Creator/{{Nintendo}} really loves all its big franchises, probably because it can make them under the company's family-friendly guidelines without complaints from the publishers -- but it really seems to love ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'', ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'', ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'', and ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''. ''Especially'' Mario, being that he's the mascot and all.
299** ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'' is especially notable. After performing below expectations in its original 1995 release (due in large part to a...misguided marketing campaign), Nintendo's international branches had treated it like the company's red-headed stepchild for many years. While the series has always had representation in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', neither of the other games would see an English release until 2015 when ''MOTHER''--whose English localization had been finished since 1991--finally made it onto the [=WiiU=]'s Virtual Console under the name ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings''. ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'' itself had only made a Virtual Console appearance two years prior. ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER 3}}'' is still a no-show.
300** Back in the third generation of consoles Nintendo of America loved Creator/{{Acclaim}} and Creator/{{Konami}} so much that Nintendo of America allowed them to release 10 games a year on the NES instead of the usual 5 a year that all companies had to follow later in its lifespan. They only had to keep it secret for other companies. Thus Konami created the ''Ultra Games'' brand and Acclaim bought out Creator/LJNToys to release 5 other NES games under their label.
301** Nintendo's "second party" developers aren't immune to this either - Creator/IntelligentSystems seems to absolutely adore ''Franchise/FireEmblem'', much to the chagrin of those waiting for a ''VideoGame/PanelDePon'' sequel. Nintendo is more than happy to encourage this, placing a number of ''Fire Emblem'' characters in the roster for ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''.
302** Of their newer and more recent [=IPs=], ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'' has easily gotten a large amount of love from Nintendo, with holographic concerts featuring the IdolSinger groups from each game being held in Europe and Japan, regularly holding invitationals at E3 and livestreaming tournaments, and copious amounts of post-release support.
303** Nintendo is also very supportive of Creator/PlatinumGames' original endeavors (whereas companies like Creator/{{Konami}} and Creator/SquareEnix had them [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance work on games based off]] [[VideoGame/NierAutomata of their preexisting IPs]]), by providing funding for [[VideoGame/Bayonetta2 not one]], [[VideoGame/Bayonetta3 but two sequels]] to ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' when Creator/{{Sega}} wouldn't do so, as well as for ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101'' and ''VideoGame/AstralChain''. This good relationship between the two is why Nintendo allowed Platinum to fund and publish ports of ''The Wonderful 101'' for Steam and Platform/PlayStation4 in addition to the Nintendo Switch port, despite Nintendo being the copyright holder of the IP.
304** ''VideoGame/{{ARMS}}'' has been shown a lot of love from Nintendo. Revealed during the Nintendo Switch Presentation in January 2017 and confirmed to be releasing only a few months after the Switch launched, Nintendo advertised the hell out of it, holding tournaments, an open beta, and even dedicating an entire Nintendo Direct to it. Most of this is likely due to the fact that ''Splatoon'' has released only a couple years prior, and Nintendo was eager to promote new [=IPs=] after ''Splatoon'' ended up being a SleeperHit. While ''ARMS'' didn't reach the same levels of success as ''Splatoon'' did, it nonetheless accumulated a dedicated community, and Nintendo continued to show interest in the game in the year afterwards, most notably by including Min Min as DLC for ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''.
305* A similar case to Nintendo can also be said for Creator/{{Sega}} towards its own mascot, Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog, who happens to be Sega's biggest CashCowFranchise, and the only one [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff with more popularity in the West than it does back in Japan]]. This is actually enough to annoy some Sega fans of other franchises, especially since unlike Nintendo's Big 3, ''Sonic'' is the only franchise Sega has with this treatment, and this tends to come at the cost of sales for other Sega franchises due to the lack of marketing and exposure for them that was instead put into the latest ''Sonic'' game. In the late-2010s and early-2020s, Sega has been trying to avert this, with the ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'' games seeing a large rise in popularity on both sides of the Pacific, as well as reviving several older properties in a new initiative to bring them mainstream.
306* Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive love to constantly update ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' (especially with its Online Multiplayer Counterpart), to the point it's received UpdatedReRelease(s) ''twice'' as the seventh and eighth generations of consoles reached the end of their lifecycles. News of a sequel wouldn't drop until late 2023, and in the meantime they've only released [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemptionII one other game]].
307* Towards the end of the Atari 800 era, [[http://www.atarimania.com/list_games_atari-400-800-xl-xe-english-software-company-uk_publisher_1207_8_G.html English Software]] milked popular games by including them on several "Atari Smash Hits" compilations -- "Jet Boot Jack" on volumes 1, 2 ''and'' 3, "Chop Suey" on 4 and 5 and "Elektra Glide" on 5, 6 and 7.
308* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' is adored by Sony Santa Monica. Naturally, since it was their BreakthroughHit. However, this adoration comes at the expense of games entrusted to them from other Sony studios. ''VideoGame/FatPrincess'', ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'', and ''VideoGame/{{Starhawk}}'' were all [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screwed]] because of this, and it took a fandom revolt to save ''VideoGame/PlaystationAllStarsBattleRoyale'' from suffering the same fate.
309* Atlus and their ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' series, but especially ''VideoGame/Persona3'', ''VideoGame/Persona4'' and ''VideoGame/Persona5''. ''Persona 4'' was a BreakthroughHit (so much that Atlus USA finally stopped [[DolledUpInstallment dolling it up]] with the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' brand after ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena''). ''Persona 5'' was an even bigger BreakthroughHit, becoming Atlus' highest-selling title ever. All three got [[TheAnimeOfTheGame anime adaptations]], and more merchandise than the rest of the franchise combined.
310** To put it into perspective, when the series celebrated its 20th anniversary, the first three ''Persona'' games (1, Innocent Sin, and Eternal Punishment) were essentially footnotes. When Atlus had a panel at the 2014 anime con, it was literally ''just'' Persona 3 and Persona 4 - their other [=IPs=] didn't even get so much of a nod. This has caused somewhat of a BrokenBase - people who like the first two games, people who wish Atlus would stop treating them like CanonDiscontinuity, and people who like them but are getting fatigued at the constant [[CashCowFranchise milking]].
311* Farsight Studios, the creators of ''VideoGame/ThePinballArcade'', seem to adore the games from Creator/WilliamsElectronics, and three designers in particular: Creator/PatLawlor, Creator/SteveRitchie, and Creator/BarryOursler. Somewhat justified in all three cases, as they are widely considered the top pinball designers of the modern era.
312** For Lawlor, he's the co-leader with Ritchie for the most representation in ''The Pinball Arcade'' with nine games total. For starters, he has one game in the core pack download from his days at Creator/{{Stern}} (''Pinball/RipleysBelieveItOrNot''), then three games from his time at Williams in Season 1 (''Pinball/FunHouse1990'', ''Pinball/TwilightZone'', and ''Pinball/NoGoodGofers''). Season 2 adds another Williams game from him (''Pinball/{{Whirlwind}}'') and Season 3 is Lawlor free, but Season 4 more than makes up for it with ''four'' games from him (They are, in release order, ''Pinball/{{Earthshaker}}'', ''Pinball/TheAddamsFamily'', ''Pinball/RedAndTedsRoadShow'', and ''Pinball/SafeCracker''). As of July 2015, the only game Lawlor made at Williams that isn't in ''The Pinball Arcade'' is ''Pinball/BanzaiRun'', and WordOfGod indicates that we may see it in the future.
313** For Ritchie, the first three DLC seasons had two games each from him. Season 1 has ''Pinball/BlackKnight'' and ''Pinball/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Season 2 had ''Pinball/{{Firepower}}'' and ''Pinball/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', and Season 3 had ''Pinball/BlackKnight 2000'' and ''Pinball/HighSpeed''. A game from Ritchie was nowhere to be found in Season 4 (likely due to Lawlor overload), but Season 5 makes up for it with three of the first four games coming from him, including ''The Getaway: Pinball/HighSpeed II'', ''Pinball/F14Tomcat'' and ''Pinball/NoFearDangerousSports''.
314** For Oursler, there's at least one game from him in each DLC season. Season 1 had ''Pinball/{{Gorgar}}'', Season 2 had ''Pinball/PinBot'', Season 3 had ''Pinball/WhoDunnit1995'' and ''Pinball/JunkYard'', and Season 4 had ''Pinball/BramStokersDracula'',''Pinball/{{Cyclone}}'' and ''Pinball/JackBot''. A recent leak indicated that ''Pinball/{{Hurricane}}'' will be added during Season 5.
315*** For those counting, yes, Season 4 had 7/10 games from Oursler and Lawlor combined. The other three games were ''Pinball/PhantomOfTheOpera'' (from Creator/JoeKaminkow), ''Pinball/StarshipTroopers'' (also from Kaminkow), and ''Pinball/{{Xenon}}'' (from Creator/GregKmiec).
316** Creator/JohnTrudeau currently has three games (''Pinball/{{Victory}}'', ''Pinball/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'' and ''Pinball/TheMachineBrideOfPinbot''), with one more (''Pinball/JudgeDredd'') hinted at for a December 2015 release and another (''Pinball/TXSector'') semi-confirmed through a leak.
317** On a lesser note, ''The Pinball Arcade'' has four games from Creator/JonNorris (''Pinball/TeedOff'', ''Pinball/CueBallWizard'', ''Pinball/LightsCameraAction'', and ''Pinball/HighRollerCasino''), five games from Creator/DennisNordman (''Pinball/ElviraAndThePartyMonsters'', ''Pinball/DrDude'', ''Pinball/ThePartyZone'', ''Pinball/WhiteWater'', and ''Pinball/ScaredStiff'') and three each from Joe Kaminkow ( the aforementioned ''Phantom of the Opera'' and ''Starship Troopers'', plus ''Pinball/SpaceShuttle'' from Season 2), Creator/MarkRitchie (''Pinball/{{Taxi}}'', ''Pinball/{{Diner}}'' and ''Pinball/FishTales''), and Creator/JohnPopadiuk (''Pinball/TheaterOfMagic'', ''Pinball/TalesOfTheArabianNights''-both of which are in the core pack- and ''Pinball/CirqusVoltaire'').
318* Sega also loves its ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' franchise, which started as a [[VideoGame/SakuraWars video game]] in 1996. It has since gone on to spawn five sequels, as well as video game spin-offs, [=OVAs=], a [[Anime/SakuraWars2000 TV series]], an [[Anime/SakuraWarsTheMovie anime film]], and several stage musicals.
319* One of the most common criticisms aimed at Creator/{{Capcom}} is that they tend to hyperfocus on one or two franchises at a time while neglecting or ignoring all of their others. During the mid-2000s, it seemed there was no shortage of ''Franchise/MegaMan'' spinoff games or ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' titles, while 2D fighting games such as ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' and ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'' stayed locked away with many fans wondering if those games would ever return. Eventually, [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIV they]] [[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3 did,]] only for ''Mega Man'' and ''Devil May Cry'' to take their place and be demoted to primarily re-releases and collections of old games. As of the mid to late 2010's, they are now being accused of doing the same to the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' franchise after ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7'' were received with public and critic acclaim, ignoring all their other franchises.
320* VideoGame/SuperFighter: A somewhat unusual example. Even though this ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' [[TheMockbuster clone]] was created by the Taiwanese company C&E, it was the American video game company Super Fighter Team who have given it this treatment, even adopting the name of this game for their company.
321* Creator/EAGames publishes a lot of games, some acclaimed indies and some big blockbuster franchises, like ''Franchise/MassEffect'', ''Franchise/DragonAge'' and ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}'' being the biggest and most enduring of their own properties, and one of the biggest of all, '''''Franchise/StarWars'''''. But it's their sports games that they care the most about -- and among them, ''VideoGame/FifaSoccer'' is the top dog. When the development of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' was going through hurdles thanks to Bioware's unfamiliarity with the Frostbite engine, they weren't given the help of DICE, the developers who made the engine... because they were helping the ''FIFA'' team. The process repeated when ''VideoGame/Anthem2019'' -- a property EA hyped up as "their next big IP" -- faced the same issues, and EA once again instead had all staff who were familiar with Frostbite -- including those who were ''already'' working at Bioware -- moved to work on ''FIFA''. This is because ''FIFA'' is '''''huge''''' around the world, and it ''always'' outsells EA's other games. Not only that, but its microtransactions rake in ''insane'' amounts of money, and because players of ''FIFA'' tend to not be as ingrained in gaming culture and discourse, they generally are not talked about or face as much scrutiny as microtransactions in other games.
322* While they certainly haven't been slacking off on [[Franchise/{{Fallout}} that other franchise they own]] and even [[VideoGame/{{Starfield}} launched a new IP]], Bethesda Game Studios has become infamous for rereleasing ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' on every platform under the sun, sometimes ''multiple times'', while simultaneously offering no information on the development of its sequel. To the point where it became a joke that every new game announcement from them would just turn out to be ''Skyrim'' again. And then the meme where ''everything'' turned out to just be ''Skyrim'' in disguise.
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326* The Wikimedia Foundation seems to put most of its fundraising money towards Website/{{Wikipedia}} and Wikimedia Commons, but that's justified, as hardly anyone knows of, say, Wikibooks.
327* Website/YouTube gave an unusual amount of attention to WebVideo/TheIrateGamer for a couple years, including naming him one of the first [=YouTube=] Partners, despite his status as a controversy magnet whose videos didn't get very good ratings. Internal reports suggest this was because they noted the popularity of WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd, but found his ClusterFBomb style and VulgarHumor to be too caustic for advertisers, and so decided to uplift a channel with a similar focus but [[TheMoralSubstitute considerably less swearing.]]
328* Creator/BrianDavidGilbert was picked up by video game journalism outlet [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygon_(website) Polygon]] in 2017 -- a time coinciding with the departure of former major personalities like Nick Robinson and the Creator/McElroyBrothers -- and swiftly achieved rapid popularity as a mainstay of the site with his ''WebVideo/{{Unraveled}}'' series. When he chose to part ways in 2020, he admitted that the move was partly motivated by the support and attention he received from Polygon being disproportionate to his coworkers, opening his desire to continue producing independently while allowing his former coworkers their moment to shine.
329* JustForFun/TropeOverdosed and JustForFun/TropeOverdosedFranchises both exist to determine which works are adored by Website/TVTropes.
330* Website/TheEscapist treated ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' with an almost exclusive level of prestige and security after picking up creator Creator/BenCroshaw in 2007, [[LongRunners reliably keeping him and the show afloat for 16 years]] even following massive scandals with other creators, ranging from [[ScrewedByTheNetwork skimping out on paying creators]] like the ''WebAnimation/ExtraCredits'' team and abruptly laying off ''all'' their content creators except for Croshaw in 2017. Croshaw eventually resigned from The Escapist in 2023 (along with every other creator since added to the site, this time voluntarily) following the sudden firing of then editor-in-chief Nick Calandra, [[ChannelHop all regrouping on the newly-formed, employee-owned network Second Wind]], with ''Zero Punctuation'' being relaunched as a CreatorDrivenSuccessor, ''WebAnimation/FullyRamblomatic'' (a result of The Escapist owning the ''Zero Punctuation'' IP). This was done both as a show of solidarity, but also because of his increasing disillusionment with The Escapist, which included frustrations of having to carry the site following its earlier mass exodus.
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