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* DirectToVideo: As VCR's became more popular during the 1980s, HBO instituted a self-imposed policy of not playing any direct-to-video releases. Eventually they had to relax this edict once studios started turning out fewer films as the decade went on. Occasionally the channel even aired made-for-TV films such as ''The Miracle of Kathy Miller'' (Creator/{{CBS}}, 1981).
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* DirectToVideo: As VCR's became more popular during the 1980s, HBO instituted a self-imposed policy of not playing any direct-to-video releases. Eventually they had to relax this edict once studios started turning out fewer films as the decade went on. Occasionally the channel even aired made-for-TV films such as ''The Miracle of Kathy Miller'' (Creator/{{CBS}}, 1981).1981).
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: After [[Creator/RoseanneBarr Roseanne Barr's]] 1987 HBO special ''The Roseanne Barr Show'' proved a resounding success, HBO brass realized her act would make a good sitcom, but balked at producing it themselves because it was felt it wouldn't be right for HBO. Their instincts were proven right a year later when ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' began a successful nine-season run on Creator/{{ABC}}.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: After [[Creator/RoseanneBarr Roseanne Barr's]] 1987 HBO special ''The Roseanne Barr Show'' proved a resounding success, HBO brass realized her act would make a good sitcom, but balked at producing it themselves because it was felt it wouldn't be right for HBO. Their instincts were proven right a year later when ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' began a successful nine-season run on Creator/{{ABC}}.
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* DirectToVideo: As VCR's became more popular during the 1980s, HBO instituted a self-imposed policy of not playing any direct-to-video releases. Eventually they had to relax this edict once studios started turning out fewer films as the decade went on. Occasionally the channel even aired made-for-TV films such as ''The Miracle of Kathy Miller'' (Creator/{{CBS}}, 1981).
