Series by Committee

摘要

New fall schedule? Gotta pull in women with shows in the spirit of Desperate Housewives. Then again, everybody saw the runaway success of Lost last year, so there's plenty of science-fiction and fantasy. And, of course, virtually everything produced by the Jerry "CSI" Bruckheimer machine turns into ratings gold, so police procedurals are a no-brainer. That might describe the chatter about the big programming themes running through network schedules as September looms, but what are the people who actually make the shows talking about? The unprecedented mi-cromanaging of every de- cision—financial and creative—by layers and layers of network bureaucracy.