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Network to the Rescue

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Network to the Rescue	comment	Studios turn down good scripts, networks cancel, screw over, or fail to pick up good shows, and publishers refuse to publish great books all the time. Usually, the suits a) never liked it, b) liked it but it was too expensive to produce, c) liked it but didn't think it would get a large enough audience, or d) they just didn't get it. Sometimes, a movie, show, book, or video game is an iffy bet, at best. But sometimes a Studio/Network/Publisher (or more accurately a visionary Executive at said organization) realizes that this work is simply brilliant and will make sure the product has all the resources to fund it, promote it, and make sure it gets made. This loyalty stands even when the movie has passed its budget twice, or the series is number 10,371 in the ratings. When the product is a hit, such boldness and support can result in Moments of Awesome for those Executives who defied the predictions of failure from their colleagues and instead stuck by the creators of the work. The quote above comes from Alan Ladd, Jr., the 20th Century Fox executive whose unwavering faith in Star Wars helped that movie get made when even its own cast and crew had doubts about it. Fox demonstrated similar patience when Titanic (1997) ran way over budget, failed to meet schedule deadlines, and encountered myriad problems in filming. Sometimes, a network or studio will destroy a good product and learn from its mistakes. Fox built up a reputation for never sticking with its shows due to Profit, Arrested Development and Firefly. (Though Arrested Development was given second and third seasons and a cushy timeslot, making it a case of this trope as well.) However, the network turned around and poured tons of money into promoting and producing Bones, 24 and House, M.D. (although the last-named came from Universal), shows that were big gambles and have since become massive hits. Even more dramatic, Fox even went back and uncanceled a show they had previously screwed, twice — Family Guy, one of their biggest hits, with sister show American Dad! completing its eighth season in 2013 and direct spinoff The Cleveland Show making it to four (before it got the axe). They even gave a second season to Dollhouse, a move which surprised many, though the show was canceled before the second season finished its run (which many feel was done just to avoid what happened last time). Where TV is concerned, sometimes Network to the Rescue can result in, or be the result of, an un-canceling, as was the case with JAG's move from NBC after its first season (1995-96) to CBS, where it stayed on the air for nine more seasons and spun off a popular show which in its tenth season (2013) became the highest-rated prime-time drama. Not to mention that the spin-off has two successful spin-offs of its own. Network to the Rescue is not quite the same as a network grudgingly, or reluctantly, taking back a show because they just don't want to upset viewers, as happened with Star Trek: The Original Series (or Jericho (2006)). Both shows came back, but were dumped shortly after for good. No, a production entity has to willingly believe in and be fully committed to the product's success and be willing to put up with quite a few bumps in the road to success, as was the case with Paramount's commitment to Star Trek: The Next Generation. Paramount gave the series the kind of budget that only theatrical action movies had back then, and stuck with it even though the first few seasons were blah. This trope doesn't apply to sure bets or things that are relatively low-risk. For instance, whereas Fox performed a Studio to the Rescue for the first Star Wars, by the time they decided to make the prequels it was a foregone conclusion that they would make tons of money. Compare with Adored by the Network and Channel Hop. Contrast with Screwed by the Network; some examples of this trope are instances of networks cleaning up their own messes. Note which article has the most examples (though this may not be a case of Accentuating the Negative as much as networks simply screwing over shows more often than saving them).
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Network to the Rescue / int_135f4195	comment	Dune was rejected by science fiction publishers and was finally picked up by Chilton. Yes, the same Chilton known for publishing do-it-yourself auto repair manuals.
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Network to the Rescue / int_1556da65	comment	PokÃ©mon Detective Pikachu didn't really have much confidence from Universal due to the reputation of video game movies in general, but agreed to distribute it as part of its deal with Legendary Pictures, who was producing the film. After filming wrapped, tensions between Universal and Legendary boiled over thanks to a long line of box office failures, and Universal terminated its production deal with Legendary, leaving PokÃ©mon: Detective Pikachu without a distributor. Warner Bros., who know the PokÃ©mon franchise and Legendary well, saw an opportunity to reclaim what they had lost to Legendary several years prior by agreeing to distribute the film, acquiring a stake in the film's copyright as well. The result ended up being well-received; becoming the most successful film in the franchise domestically and surpassing Warcraft as the highest-grossing live-action video game movie worldwide, kicking off a new franchise for WB; a windfall that Universal would miss out on.
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Network to the Rescue / int_15aaf80d	comment	Tuca & Bertie ran for only one season on Netflix in 2019, but was picked up for a second season by [adult swim] to begin airing in 2021.
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Network to the Rescue / int_17ae2a7	comment	Was anyone expecting Tatsunoko vs. Capcom to be published internationally, as most people don't know what a Tatsunoko is? Capcom USA went the extra mile and dealt with the crazy licensing issues involved in getting characters from Tatsunoko Production.
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Network to the Rescue / int_195f30bf	comment	Same with The Oblongs.
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Network to the Rescue / int_1ca221f9	comment	Mark Wills was also a victim of Equity's closure, at which point he was three singles into a yet-unreleased album: "Hank" (which was quickly withdrawn due to objections over the lyrics), "Take It All Out on Me", and "Days of Thunder". The latter two made it to the album Familiar Stranger, which was finally released in 2010 via Tenacity Records.
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Network to the Rescue / int_1ec30ce7	comment	The Ghost And Molly Mcgee (then called The Curse Of Piper Mcgee) was going to be a Nicktoon on Nickelodeon but they denied it. Fourteen years later, Disney Channel would greenlight the show with a new name.
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Network to the Rescue / int_21daae8a	comment	Crystal Lake more than likely would have been stuck in Japan if it wasn't for Sharptone Records. Crystal Lake signed to Artery in 2011, but Artery did fuck all with them. Thankfully a combination of strong festival appearances in Europe and their Signature Song Apollo going viral on Website/Youtube put Crystal Lake on Sharptone Record's radar and they became one of their flagship bands.
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Network to the Rescue / int_233b55c7	comment	The Warlord (DC): Carmine Infantino (editor in chief of DC at the time) cancelled it after the third issue, after promising Grell a one-year run. When Jeanette Kahn, a fan of the series, took over as publisher and found out it was cancelled, she reportedly told her editors "Well, I just cancelled Carmine. Put it back on the schedule." The book was later made monthly, and at one time was the top selling title for DC.
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Network to the Rescue / int_24ffd341	comment	While Viceland was touted as the network that would bring millennials back to television, the channel's owners didn't count on its target audience being more interested in repeats of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia than the original slate of documentary, lifestyle, and activist-oriented programming. However, the U.K version did manage to accomplish this trope when brought back mature, adult-oriented anime to British television with the help of Anime Limited in 2017. note Mature anime has been seldom seen on U.K television since the degradation of CSC's AnimeCentral, which eventually got the boot in-favor of Sony's True Entertainment channel in 2009. Viceland UK started with the well-rounded lineup of Cowboy Bebop, Tokyo Ghoul, Samurai Champloo, Durarara!!, and Eureka Seven, but they soon got to do an English dub premiere with Seraph of the End in February 2018.
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Network to the Rescue / int_28724fb2	comment	Paula Parisi wrote a book called Titanic: And the Making of James Cameron. You get an idea of how close that movie came to not even being made. But Fox executive Bill Mechanic among others truly demonstrated balls of steel. This paid off, literally, as Titanic became the highest-grossing film of all time upon release, and remains at fourth when adjusted for inflation.
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Network to the Rescue / int_2ba1d958	comment	Producer Joel Silver backed the making of The Matrix even though cyber-movies like Johnny Mnemonic and Strange Days had both failed miserably. Also, no one had even heard of the Wachowskis, nor did anyone think that Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, and Carrie Moss had any kind of "star power". Oh well, luckily for us, Joel Silver saw it differently...
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Network to the Rescue / int_2e97466d	comment	Their announcement of localizing the Ys games made them heroes in the eyes of the Ys fandom (and the fact that they did a great job with the localization definitely doesn't hurt).
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Network to the Rescue / int_2ecfb6e	comment	The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible was an idea that Joe Barbera, a lifelong Catholic, tried to sell to the networks for 16 years, but they wouldn't take it for obvious reasons. The series eventually produced in 1986 and released Direct to Video via a $2.5 million investment from H-B's owner, Taft Entertainment.
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Network to the Rescue / int_32c65cad	comment	Old Dominion was picked up by RCA Records after "Break Up with Him" started taking off, to the point that their original independent label isn't even credited on the album.
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Network to the Rescue / int_351065d1	comment	Psyren was this in manga form; though it didn't test very well in Japan, Shonen Jump knew it would do well in America, and thus allowed the Mangaka to finish the story, some one-hundred and seventy chapters later.
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Network to the Rescue / int_3c69e536	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) almost got the can (again!) when Sony lost its main financing partner due to a slew of box office stinkers that cost the firm more money than they made. Since this meant Sony would have to foot the tab on the project, they placed the movie into turnaround, stopping work on the project. Co-producer Neal Moritz, who was getting tired of Sony's Executive Meddling (not to mention the fact that his most recent production at Sony, Passengers (2016), disappointed at the box office), ended his first-look deal with them in protest. Newly-minted Paramount Pictures CEO Jim Gianopulos got word of this and, while negotiating with Moritz, saw early test footage of Sonic before Sony pulled the plug. Gianopulos liked the footage so much that, in addition to signing Moritz to a new first-look contract with them, Paramount took the film rights away from Sony, saving the project from cancellation.
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Network to the Rescue / int_410978c2	comment	Interspecies Reviewers: Funimation simulcast the first three episodes and dubbed the first one, but dropped the show shortly after. In September 2020, however, Right Stuf rescued the license in North America and announced a Blu-ray for it.
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Network to the Rescue / int_455e3038	comment	King of the Hill was absent from American television for nearly two years, as the show was removed from free-to-air syndication in March 2019, and was pulled from Comedy Central (who grabbed the cable rights to the show from [adult swim] in July 2018) eight months later (there's even a rumor that the channel's parent company, ViacomCBS, bought the rights only so Adult Swim couldn't have them). However, once ViacomCBS's contract expired, the show's cable rights reverted to 20th Television, who was acquired by Disney shortly after the Comedy Central deal was finalized. As a result of this, FXX added King of the Hill to their schedule on September 20, 2021. Even better, while Comedy Central tended to only air the series late at night or in the wee hours of the morning, FXX has been giving King of the Hill consistent timeslots in the afternoon. And to add insult to injury, Adult Swim got King of the Hill back, gaining nighttime rights to the series in November of 2021, meaning if true, Comedy Central's efforts to poach the series away from them was All for Nothing.
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Network to the Rescue / int_47275c2a	comment	Beware the Batman was barely advertised at all on DC Nation, eventually put on hiatus for no reason other than to make room for more Teen Titans Go! episodes, and then delayed. Almost a year later, the show was picked up by Toonami on [adult swim], who decided to show all 26 episodes at 3:00am weekdays, only to have it pulled from their hands when Cartoon Network decided to write the series off their taxes. Fortunately, Toonami made a last-minute decision and did a marathon of the final seven episodes right before it disappeared forever.
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Network to the Rescue / int_49a87cb3	comment	Final Fantasy VII. When it was released, Square didn't even have a North American distributor (their earlier releases had been done on a contract basis). Sony picked up the distribution costs, as well as spending $100 million to promote the game in the US.
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Network to the Rescue / int_4bcdb0e6	comment	Krazy Kat is weird and surreal, and was incredibly unpopular among the general public in its time. However, William Randolph Hearst (yeah, that one) loved it and ran it in all his newspapers, eventually giving it a full-page colour spread in the Arts & Drama section. It sometimes ran in his papers only because of his direct order. When Herriman died, Hearst canceled the comic, even though it was common practice to hire a new cartoonist after the death of the author— Hearst didn't want anyone messing with Krazy.
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Network to the Rescue / int_4f4c36c4	comment	Bravest Warriors: Much like how CartoonNetwork picked up Adventure Time from Nickelodeon, when FrederatorStudios launched their YouTube channel (Channel Frederator) they greenlit Pendleton Ward's other pitch pilot from the Random! Cartoons anthology series that wasn't picked up and turned it into a hit.
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Network to the Rescue / int_50e2e357	comment	Even though the 2009 reboot of Star Trek was a success, remember that at the time Paramount went ahead with it, the Trek franchise was in a rut; before the new movie was announced, the last showings were Star Trek: Nemesis, which flopped badly at the box-office, and Star Trek: Enterprise, that had been cancelled due to poor ratings. Similarly Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country was living in the shadow of the flop of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and the new restricted budget literally made the film impossible to make until a new head came in at Paramount, who knew Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan director Nicholas Meyer personally and agreed to provide as much money as it would take so that the film could be made. Paramount has a considerable track record as a Studio To The Rescue. Consider the case of Forrest Gump. Or, more famously, another of its Best Picture-winning blockbusters, The Godfather. Back in 1970, gangster movies were action flicks like the James Cagney version of The Public Enemy, not slow character dramas with lots of talking. And you certainly didn't make one with a completely unknown (and eccentric) director, a washed-up star, and a ton of people no one even heard of. Paramount did it; and the rest is history. Not as much network to the rescue as a producer to the rescue. Paramount had been bought out by Gulf+Western and they were considering to actually close down the studio. Robert Evans fought a lot to get Godfather made, but boy did it pay off.
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Network to the Rescue / int_518bddaf	comment	Care Bears & Cousins is essentially this trope after Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot was royally screwed up by Hasbro and The Hub. It took them three years to produce the show and four years to produce the toys, only for them to not produce a second season after giving the toys terrible distribution. Netflix came to the show's rescue, while Just Play Toys came to the toys.
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Network to the Rescue / int_57dfef54	comment	Pinky Malinky was developed by Cartoon Network's European division in 2009. Being a fairly new division of the network at the time Cartoon Network turned down the pilot (as well as a few others) to create The Amazing World of Gumball. In 2015 Nickelodeon greenlit Pinky Malinky for a 20-episode season.
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Network to the Rescue / int_5a56a764	comment	Funko Pop! Blitz originally started development with NBCUniversalâ€™s video game branch, which was shut down during the game's development. N3TWORK, in collaboration with Tic Toc Games, picked up the game after the closure and finished it.
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Network to the Rescue / int_5ab7c98e	comment	Bloomsbury, a British publisher, took a chance on the first Harry Potter novel after eight other publishers turned it down. And even they would have turned it down if it weren't for the fact that one of the editors took the manuscript home and his daughter read it and asked for more. The publishers were all focusing on critically analyzing it from their perspective rather than thinking what the kids would want.
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Network to the Rescue / int_60f02ddb	comment	American Dad! left FOX in 2014 to air new episodes on TBS.
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Network to the Rescue / int_61237923	comment	Somewhat inverted with Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!. Adult Swim promotes the hell out of it and gives it the red carpet treatment but the fanbase isn't biting and the show has low to middling ratings. It's not a Creator's Pet or The Scrappy even though it has developed a Hatedom because after the craptons of promotion the show does have fans.
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Network to the Rescue / int_62055587	comment	Rescue Heroes got renewed for a second season, but CBS canceled the series due to low ratings and their contract with studio Nelvana expiring in 2000. It would take another year for Kids' WB! to find potential in the series and reboot production.
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Network to the Rescue / int_6473e94	comment	Rainbow Rangers, which was promoted as the next hit children's TV show, had its' premieres moved to the Nick Jr. channel so that the block could air Butterbean's Cafe instead, usually in poor timeslots during the day. When Butterbean wound up having low ratings, Rainbow Rangers took the prime timeslots that show had on the channel (two morning slots and an afternoon slot) in the fall of 2019, possibly to promote the merchandise that came out. There's no word yet of it airing on the Nick Jr. block proper.
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Network to the Rescue / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons, despite being the seminal tabletop game, ran into deep trouble during its 2nd Edition under TSR's leadership. When TSR went under, the makers of Magic: The Gathering, Wizards of the Coast, decided to rescue D&D by buying it out. Why? Not only would it give Wizards something to fall back on if Magic ever stopped selling, but Peter Adkison was a big fan of D&D, and wanted to ensure its survival. More of the story can be found here.
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Network to the Rescue / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb was originally pitched to Nickelodeon in 1992. It ended up airing its pilot episode on the Disney Channel in 2007.
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Network to the Rescue / int_7fc78282	comment	Many fans of The Lord of the Rings were convinced that no movie studio could do the books justice. However, New Line Cinema took a chance on Peter Jackson's unorthodox and expensive approach to making the movies and actually stunned everybody with three good movies. In fact, it was New Line who suggested that they make three movies rather than the two that Jackson was requesting.
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Network to the Rescue / int_7ff3216c	comment	Even though it was only reruns, Garfield and Friends debuted on Cartoon Network around the same time that CBS cancelled the series. After Cartoon Network stopped airing Garfield, Nickelodeon picked the show up. And then after Nickelodeon stopped airing it, Fox Family picked it up. After this, the show aired on Toon Disney right after Disney's purchase of Fox Family. The same thing occurred in 2006, too. After Toon Disney stopped airing it, Boomerang picked up Garfield... but used the DVD versions of the episodes.
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Network to the Rescue / int_818986be	comment	Emmure was one of the artists on Victory Records that wasn't screwed over by them. However, by the mid-2010's Victory was bleeding money for various reasons. Sharptone came in and put out Emmure's seventh album Look at Yourself in 2017.
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Network to the Rescue / int_84d455d4	comment	The Big O pretty much flopped in Japan, and for a long time it seemed like the season one cliffhanger would leave viewers hanging. Fortunately, the show was much more popular in America, and Cartoon Network paid a chunk of the cost to make the second season happen. This would later come back to bite the show when Cartoon Network began its Network Decay, and they ended up screwing up the airing of a couple episodes (including accidentally airing a repeat over the finale) and ended up canceling the show before a reportedly expected third season, despite it having paid off financially.
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Network to the Rescue / int_8aa7c509	comment	Star vs. the Forces of Evil was originally going to be on Cartoon Network, but it was rejected, so then it was picked up to Nickelodeon, only to be rejected; thus Disney Channel picked it up instead, who later moved the series to Disney XD
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Network to the Rescue / int_8ec33a86	comment	While Nintendo of America was wiling to bring over Xenoblade Chronicles 1 if it was successful in Europe (and it was, so they did), they seemed less enthused by the other two JRPGs that the Operation Rainfall fan campaign wanted: The Last Story and Pandora's Tower. XSEED decided to get the North American publishing rights to The Last Story for a 2012 release after seeing the success of Xenoblade Chronicles, and by the end of the year, it had become their best-selling game to-date, which encouraged them to publish Pandora's Tower in early 2013 as well.
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Network to the Rescue / int_91bb14a5	comment	When trying to publish The Help, author Kathryn Stockett was rejected 60 times until literary agent Susan Ramer agreed to represent her. Not only did it spend over 100 weeks on the bestseller list, but it was also made into a highly successful movie.
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Network to the Rescue / int_9472b00d	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn was originally supposed to come out in 2009, but Sunrise officials said the authors needed to polish the episodes a bit more, and changed the schedule. The longer timeframe given for making said episodes by and large paid off.
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Network to the Rescue / int_95521c97	comment	The Spectacular Spider-Man was nearly canceled in its first season by TheCW4Kids (who had just replaced Kids' WB!) due to it not being a 4Kids Entertainment program. However, Disney XD successfully managed to negotiate it out of their hands and moved it to that network for another season. Nonetheless, it still fell to cancellation in the end, but due to being Screwed by the Lawyers.
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Network to the Rescue / int_9a27658	comment	Extra Credits got into a large amount of hot water with their publisher, The Escapist, over missing pay and other issues. After they were dropped by the site, Penny Arcade swooped in and offered to host their content on their platform.
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Network to the Rescue / int_9d1834ee	comment	Warner struck again in 2008 when Raybaw Records, a division owned by the songwriting clique MuzikMafia (Big & Rich, Gretchen Wilson, James Otto, Shannon Lawson, etc.), closed in March. Warner distributed all of Raybaw's material, so they picked up Otto's then-current single "Just Got Started Lovin' You", pushed the song all the way to #1 â€” in fact, it was the biggest hit of the year â€” and releasing his album. However, as for his other Warner Bros. singlesâ€¦
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Network to the Rescue / int_9d239f0a	comment	Last Window, the sequel to Hotel Dusk: Room 215 was a financial failure and caused its developer Cing to go bankrupt soon after. Despite this, Nintendo of Europe still translated Last Window for its markets, despite Hotel Dusk not selling as well there. It would be a case of No Export for You for North America, however, despite the game selling better in that region than it did in Europe.
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Network to the Rescue / int_a0b025d2	comment	Atari rescued Ghostbusters: The Video Game after Activision decided not to publish it.
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Network to the Rescue / int_a183d57f	comment	FOX's treatment of Futurama was very... bad. It managed to get five seasons before being cancelled, but reruns on Adult Swim kept it alive. Then, Comedy Central bought the rights to the show, revived it, and then canceled it again two seasons later... then Hulu came swooping in to revive the series on their service in 2023.
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Network to the Rescue / int_a49f631a	comment	Similarly, Summer Memories was pitched to the network as part of the Nickelodeon Animated Shorts Program in 2014, but ultimately turned down. Fortunately, creator Adam Yaniv eventually brought back the rights to his short and developed it into his own show, which debuted in 2022 on the Canadian network Family Channel.
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Network to the Rescue / int_a90d239a	comment	On the topic of Double Fine, Psychonauts was picked up by Majesco after being dropped by Microsoft.
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Network to the Rescue / int_aac942e5	comment	The Santa Clause was originally going to released under the Hollywood Pictures label, but Disney CEO Michael Eisner loved it and decided to release it under the main Walt Disney Pictures label to give it more exposure.
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Network to the Rescue / int_b1072514	comment	Paramount has a considerable track record as a Studio To The Rescue. Consider the case of Forrest Gump. Or, more famously, another of its Best Picture-winning blockbusters, The Godfather. Back in 1970, gangster movies were action flicks like the James Cagney version of The Public Enemy, not slow character dramas with lots of talking. And you certainly didn't make one with a completely unknown (and eccentric) director, a washed-up star, and a ton of people no one even heard of. Paramount did it; and the rest is history. Not as much network to the rescue as a producer to the rescue. Paramount had been bought out by Gulf+Western and they were considering to actually close down the studio. Robert Evans fought a lot to get Godfather made, but boy did it pay off.
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Network to the Rescue / int_b15df8aa	comment	Oji Hiroi's proposal for the original game was rejected by multiple game companies. Eventually, in 1994, Sega's then-vice-president Shoichiro Irimajiri contacted Hiroi to create a game for potential mascot character for the Sega Saturn. When Hiroi presented his proposal to Irimajiri at Saipan, the latter became enthusiastic and once the two returned to Japan, the game's development began.
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Network to the Rescue / int_b15e4a4b	comment	Sega began full development of the 2019 game due to overwhelming fan demand. It eventually got to the point where Sega decided to do the localization themselves.
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Network to the Rescue / int_b36c38cd	comment	Jaws was so stressful to make back in 1974, that most of the cast were ready to quit on director Steven Spielberg. However, legend has it has Richard Dreyfuss among others believed in him, as did producer Richard Zanuck. They were handsomely rewarded for their faith.
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Network to the Rescue / int_b4996199	comment	The newspaper Spider-Man strip ran as long as it did because Stan Lee liked it and followed it until his death. Once he died Marvel almost immediately dumped it with a hastily-written conclusion, even though weeks of strips had already been completed.
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Network to the Rescue / int_b8eb4fe5	comment	Sakura Wars: Oji Hiroi's proposal for the original game was rejected by multiple game companies. Eventually, in 1994, Sega's then-vice-president Shoichiro Irimajiri contacted Hiroi to create a game for potential mascot character for the Sega Saturn. When Hiroi presented his proposal to Irimajiri at Saipan, the latter became enthusiastic and once the two returned to Japan, the game's development began. The series has long been labeled a holy grail of localization, with plenty of hardcore fans in the West who knew there was little reason anyone would give the games a chance. Enter NIS America, who in April 2010 decided to give the US the fifth game in the series. Which was originally released in 2005 on the PlayStation 2, a system that had been long since succeeded by the PlayStation 3. And they even went through the trouble of having it ported to the Wii. Sega began full development of the 2019 game due to overwhelming fan demand. It eventually got to the point where Sega decided to do the localization themselves.
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Network to the Rescue / int_bc42183b	comment	The Proud Family was originally presented to Nickelodeon but they rejected it. After 2 years it finally aired on Disney Channel and ended up being quite popular for them.
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Network to the Rescue / int_bf42e29d	comment	Hitman (2016)'s first season was widely beloved by fans and critics alike, but severely underperformed financially (the biggest cited reason being because of the game's episodic format alienating potential consumers), causing developer IO Interactive to be dropped by Square Enix and — without the publisher's vast resources — were left in massive financial difficulty. While IOI were able to retain the IP rights to Hitman and were already producing the second season, they were strapped for cash and months from bankruptcy before arranging a chance deal with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, who allowed them to complete the rest of the game for free in exchange for distribution rights and a revenue cut, a deal which IOI director Hakan Abrak stated saved the entire company. The gamble fully paid off — after releasing the second season (alongside its previous one) as the standalone Hitman 2, IOI received vastly improved returns, allowing them to develop and release their third season, Hitman 3, as a fully independent company.
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Network to the Rescue / int_c079eb41	comment	Little Big Town was on Equity Music (owned by Clint Black), but the label closed right after their second Equity album, A Place to Land, came out. Capitol Nashville picked up the band and re-released the album with some new songs. The album itself failed, but their later work with Capitol has largely been more successful.
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Network to the Rescue / int_c1b3bc6b	comment	A third installment of the True Crime series from Activision was being produced by United Front Games. The first sandbox GTA-style game to be set in Hong Kong, the game's footage looked very promising and there was quite some anticipation for it, until Activision made the extraordinarily wise decision to cancel the game two months before its release on the reason that "it wasn't good enough". The game was screwed and thrown into the same heap as Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, which were also canceled at the same time. The game seemed doomed until Square Enix took the game under its wing, renaming it Sleeping Dogs (2012) since they couldn't buy the rights to the game's original franchise but letting the game remain as it was; even giving the developers extra months to refine the gameplay. They were rewarded hansomely, as the game sold over 180,000 copies within the first few weeks of it's release.
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Network to the Rescue / int_c223e919	comment	The entire anime industry owes a lot to an unsung hero in the form of Television Station Affiliate WNEW (Now known as WNYW). Back when Fred Ladd made the very first English dubbed anime release (Astro Boy), they gave it a chance on Syndication and it was quite successful for them.
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Network to the Rescue / int_c40207f9	comment	Tell the truth: were you still betting on Duke Nukem Forever ever coming out? Randy Pitchford and Gearbox Software really were, and after 14 years of Development Hell and the closure of 3D Realms, they delivered the goods by rescuing the game and making it to ship. And they gave the game no big announcement prior. They just showed up at PAX with a playable demo to show that yes, it was real.
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Network to the Rescue / int_c4282b71	comment	The first season of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic was hardly the poster child for Adored by the Network that it is now; the show aired on Fridays when most of its target demographic was at school, and was barely advertised, with the much more adored Transformers: Prime getting plenty of attention (and inexplicable logo bugs during the show counting down to the next airing of that series, which probably wasn't effective to the show's true audience of young girls). This all changed shortly after the first season finale, when the Hub's schedule changed, and the Ponies moved to a much better timeslot on Saturday morning, and only gathered more support and airtime from there, as well as a steady stream of advertising, becoming one of the network's flagship programs. In the U.K. and the Nordic countries, the show was being horribly screwed over by their national feeds of Boomerang. However, the show has recently moved to Tiny Pop, a preschooler channel in the U.K., and also its parent channel Pop (both of which are now available on Freeview digital broadcast), and to the Nordic versions of Nickelodeon, which have taken advantage of the fanbase and given much more love. In the Netherlands, the show originally aired on Nickelodeon, who screwed it over by airing it at 11:45 in the morning on weekdays, when most of its target audience was still in school. They, furthermore, even went so far as removing the show from their schedule during holidays in favor of other, more popular shows, making it near inaccessible for any child that wasn't a toddler. Then, after season 4, a new children's channel, RTL Telekids, bought the rights for the show and started airing it late in the morning during the weekends, greatly improving the show's accesibility. They, moreover, made the episodes accessible online, which boosted it's ratings even further. While the show still had some popularity before the channel hop (predominantly with audiences outside its target, such as house mothers / fathers and college students), its audience grew significantly after the hop and the show was much more popular afterwards.
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Network to the Rescue / int_ccbaad5d	comment	After two episodes of Digimon Fusion, Nickelodeon re-aired the first episode and outright pulled the show from its schedule. The show ended up airing on Nicktoons instead, where it made it through the second season.
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Network to the Rescue / int_cf3e7a82	comment	Superman was rejected by every comic strip syndicate and comic book publisher twice when editor Sheldon Meyer convinced the publishers of DC Comics to take a chance on it. Result: the Man of Steel is now one of DC's historical icons, and arguably the best known hero in all of fiction.
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Network to the Rescue / int_cfb3439a	comment	BrÃ¼tal Legend was first to be published by Vivendi, but then they merged with Sierra, so Double Fine went to Activision, who dropped it too, so then it was picked up by Electronic Arts. Disappointed by the game's sales, EA killed the sequel, which nearly drove Double Fine to bankruptcy. On the topic of Double Fine, Psychonauts was picked up by Majesco after being dropped by Microsoft.
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Network to the Rescue / int_d03a0164	comment	Polly Pocket finished its first season in Canada in late 2018 before premiering a year later in America on Universal Kids. It was thought to have been cancelled for a while due to not airing on TV anymore new episodes were revealed to come out on Netflix in 2020.
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Network to the Rescue / int_d154285c	comment	Impact Wrestling was saved by its current parent company, Anthem, twice in succession. Buying it out from Dixie Carter in the first place, and then buying out the AXS TV channel, giving Impact a home on perhaps the biggest TV channel they've had since they left Destination America.
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Network to the Rescue / int_d328cd69	comment	Dungeon Fighter Online was horribly butchered by Nexon NA. Hackers and glitches ran rampant, extended and emergency maintenances that took forever and fixed nothing were common occurrences, there was little to no advertising and the game went a very long period with absolutely no updates, eventually leading to Nexon NA shutting down the game, apparently for not making as much money as their other games. Almost a year latter, Neople, the game's developer, decided to produce the game themselves and ran an alpha test without Nexon NA's involvement, with an open beta running as of late March 2015.
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Network to the Rescue / int_d36053d7	comment	When Dragon Ball Z Kai was licensed by Funimation fans had hoped that Cartoon Network would air the show and were quite shocked when they decided to pass on it. Then Nicktoons announced that they would air it. Not only did Kai proved to be a HUGE success for them, it also made Viacom consider airing anime on their other channels. And when Nicktoons was done with the show? Toonami on [adult swim] began airing it uncut.
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Network to the Rescue / int_d3ff6961	comment	CBS felt Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! had run its course in 1976 and canceled it a month before the fall season. ABC programming head Michael Eisner wasted zero time in getting Scooby, who had a 13-year run (and Spin-Off Babies show) on the network.
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Network to the Rescue / int_d8520b74	comment	After the 3D Sam & Max: Freelance Police title was cancelled by LucasArts in 2004, LucasArts fired a great majority of their "creative division", and most of them went on to form Telltale Games. Telltale picked up the cancelled 3D game and completely remade it into the episodic Sam & Max: Season 1 (or Sam & Max Save the World! as the console versions are called), with excellent results.
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Network to the Rescue / int_dab32c1	comment	Mega Man 6 was published in North America thanks to a Nintendo Power contest. Capcom had decided not to export the game, as the NES was nearing the end of its life cycle; but since Nintendo of America had run a contest to design Robot Masters for the game, with two winning entries actually being used, Nintendo deemed it necessary to publish it themselves. It didn't make it to Europe, however — not until the 3DS Virtual Console release.
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Network to the Rescue / int_dda72858	comment	The Iron Giant was saved and primarily backed by Pete Townshend Of The Who. Why? He liked the story. He loved the original book, The Iron Man, and even made a record out of it. Also, after Warner Bros.' poor marketing of the film caused the film to flop at the box office, they made up for it by giving the film a big boost when it was released on video, where it became a big seller. Later, Ted Turner happened to see it as an in-flight movie and, declaring it one of the greatest films of all time, helped give it a great deal of fresh publicity by airing it frequently on Cartoon Network, further cementing its cult status.
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Network to the Rescue / int_ddcb40b9	comment	Devil's Third, a M-rated shooter/hack-n-slash hybrid action game from Tomonobu Itagaki (of Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden fame). The title was originally planned as an Xbox 360 exclusive published by Microsoft, but the partnership fell through and the title shifted to being a multiplatform title intended to be published by THQ. When THQ went under in 2012 and was forced to liquidate its assets, ownership of the IP transferred back to Itagaki's studio and work continued on, with Valhalla finding a new Korean publisher for the title... only for that publisher to also shut down due to bankruptcy. At this point, Valhalla approached Nintendo, who agreed to publish the game in order to strengthen the struggling Wii U's online offerings.
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Network to the Rescue / int_e0fedb6d	comment	Ollie's Pack's pilot (then called Monster Pack) was made for Nickelodeon's animated shorts program in 2013 but was ultimately rejected. Years later, Nelvana greenlit the series under their production, and while not an original Nicktoon, it debuted on Nickelodeon in April 2020.
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Network to the Rescue / int_e22c949c	comment	They've repeatedly secured international releases for Dragon Quest titles: Even as far back as the series' beginning, Nintendo of America localized Dragon Quest in North America, with the game performing well enough that Enix would publish the next several games in the series themselves. Two decades later, Nintendo would step in once again to serve as the international publishers for Dragon Quest IX, Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2, and a remake of Dragon Quest VI; and then six years later they did so again with remakes of Dragon Quest VII and Dragon Quest VIII. And beyond just localizing, they helped fund the Switch port of Dragon Quest XI, including the addition of new features to make it an Updated Re-release.
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Network to the Rescue / int_e37e42fb	comment	NIMONA (2023), an Animated Adaptation of the webcomic of the same name, was initially in development at Blue Sky Studios and was close to being finished until Disney shut down Blue Sky Studios in 2021 as a cost cutting measure during the COVID-19 Pandemic. For a time, it seem like all hope was lost, cue Netflix and Annapurna Pictures coming in to revive the project over a year later, finally releasing it in 2023.
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Network to the Rescue / int_e3876b26	comment	The dub of Digimon Frontier was aired either in the early morning or in the afternoon during its run (as a result of Disney buying out Fox Kids and moving Digimon to their UPN spinoff of One Saturday Morning), then rerun for a few years before the creation of Jetix finally gave it a more favorable timeslot. Sadly averted in the UK, where the series still hasn't aired to this day.
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Network to the Rescue / int_e4014525	comment	Red Dead Revolver was originally being developed by Capcom but was dropped. Rockstar Games bought the game and its developer (who got renamed from Angel Studios to Rockstar San Diego) in 2002 and completed it while giving it a Spaghetti Western feel. It did well enough to warrant the sequel, Red Dead Redemption.
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Network to the Rescue / int_e7e37776	comment	After Firefly was canceled by Fox, Universal Pictures swooped in to fund a movie sequel to the series, and Serenity was born.
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Network to the Rescue / int_ea684cd0	comment	Nintendo revived and published Bayonetta 2. Due to the not-so-high sales of the original game, Sega had no interest in the project, with other publishers also passing on the idea before Nintendo decided to step in, wanting an M-rated game to help push their new Wii U console. Nintendo would go on to fund the development of Bayonetta 3 as well.
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Network to the Rescue / int_eafa9816	comment	The future of The Walking Dead (Telltale) was left uncertain after Telltale Games shuttered in 2018, in the middle of The Final Season, which would have left the game doomed to be Left Hanging. Thankfully, some former Telltale staff members would get in touch with the creator of the original comic, Robert Kirkman, and his company Skybound, who ended up being the ones to publish the last two episodes.
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Network to the Rescue / int_ed0803a7	comment	Similarly Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country was living in the shadow of the flop of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and the new restricted budget literally made the film impossible to make until a new head came in at Paramount, who knew Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan director Nicholas Meyer personally and agreed to provide as much money as it would take so that the film could be made.
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Network to the Rescue / int_f3c05e22	comment	The pilot for Twelve Forever was produced as part of Cartoon Network's shorts project. Two years after it was turned down despite gathering a certain fanbase and being considered one of the most interesting titles among the batch of shorts, Netflix picked it up, and debuted the series in 2019.
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Network to the Rescue / int_f3d889f7	comment	Zack Snyder's Justice League became a reality thanks to Warner Bros.' parent company AT&T and HBO Max executives seeing the fan interest in the unreleased material. The theatrical version was a heavily meddled affair and WB and DC Films remained completely silent about anything related to the film since November 2017, including the unused material filmed by Zack Snyder.
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Network to the Rescue / int_f5799bd9	comment	The Critic was cancelled by both ABC and FOX. The latter was truly offensive because the series was getting strong ratings in a post-Simpsons slot. (It was theorized that new executives hated the show and wanted it gone, as well as FOX not owning it and having less interest in it succeeding.) UPN attempted to invoke this trope by wanting to pick it up for a third season, but FOX prevented that. Comedy Central eventually came to the rescue by securing rerun rights and rerunning it for years. While this didn't revive the show (outside of a brief webisode run), it did keep the series from fading into obscurity and made it a cult hit — earning it an eventual DVD release.
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