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The alchemical process of transmuting the muse into money. The business, administrative, and promotional aspects of the creative life go here.
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- Always An Actor
- 30-Day Free Trial
- Acclaimed Flop
- Adored by the Network
- After Show
- AMPTP
- Award Category Fraud
- Backed by the Pentagon
- Billing Displacement
- Bland-Name Product
- Bottle Episode
- Brand X
- Breakthrough Hit
- Bribing Your Way to Victory
- Career Resurrection
- Cash Cow Franchise
- Cam Whore
- Cancellation
- Channel Hop
- Colbert Bump
- Comedy Ghetto
- Content Warnings
- Contractual Purity
- Cult Classic
- Dancing Bear
- Demographics
- Don't Try This at Home
- DRM
- Edited for Syndication
- Executive Meddling
- Executive Veto
- Fan
- Fan Community Nicknames
- Follow the Leader
- Follow Up Failure
- Former Child Star
- Franchise Killer
- Franchise Zombie
- Freemium
- Funny Character, Boring Actor
- God Does Not Own This World
- Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight
- Hollywood Hype Machine
- I Was Young and Needed the Money
- International Coproduction
- Lead In
- Limey Goes to Hollywood
- Luvvies
- Lying Creator
- Magnum Opus Dissonance
- Mean Character, Nice Actor
- Media Classifications
- The Merch
- Merchandise-Driven
- Microtransactions
- Misaimed Marketing
- Midseason Replacement
- Money, Dear Boy
- Murder Simulators
- Music Is Politics
- Network Decay
- Network Executives
- Network Red Headed Stepchild
- Network to the Rescue
- Nice Character, Mean Actor
- No Budget
- No Export for You
- Not Screened for Critics
- Now Buy The Merchandise
- Obvious Second Choice
- One Game for the Price of Two
- Only Barely Renewed
- Our Lawyers Advised This Trope
- Outlived Its Creator
- Paying Their Dues
- Plagiarism
- Polish The Turd
- Product Placement
- Promoted Fanboy
- Prop Recycling
- Ratings
- Ratings Stunt
- Real Money Trade
- The Red Stapler
- Rerun
- Revenue Enhancing Devices
- Revival
- Revival by Commercialization
- Safe Harbor
- Screwed by the Lawyers
- Screwed by the Network
- Selling The Show
- Showrunner
- Sleeper Hit
- So My Kids Can Watch
- Spoil At Your Own Risk
- Sports Preemption
- Star-Making Role
- Sweeps
- Tabloid Melodrama
- Target Audience
- Timeshift Channel
- Trans Atlantic Equivalent
- TV Strikes
- Unions In Hollywood
- Vacation, Dear Boy
- Vanity Project
- Viewers Like You
- Viral Marketing
- Wag the Director
- Watershed
- Writers Strike
- Writing Around Trademarks