Network Realities

I love world broadcast premieres because it's my chance to see movies that came out seven years ago, played on smaller screen with commercial interruptions every fifteen minutes. Are television networks that far behind, or is it because each network exists in its own reality and is incapable of seeing outside of itself? In one reality, they think celebrities should be ballroom dancing, while in another, they assume they should be figure skating. Another reality has a woman who dreams about dead people, solving crimes, while another reality has a woman who talks to ghosts, solving mysteries.

Networks must travel outside themselves and see what other realities are up to. They might find their ideas are not as unique as they once thought. Maybe they would also see that a television premiere loses its zip, if its theatrical premiere was in another century.