10-19-2018, 08:13 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-19-2018, 08:22 AM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
Universal Television was a production partner for Grimm (Universal is the "U" in NBCU). The network doesn't profit from digital sales and merchandizing, but its parent company does, so anytime network execs were making renew/cancel decisions, the concerns of the production side of NBCU would have to be part of the discussion. That doesn't happen when there's no "family relationship" between broadcast and production. And if broadcast and production are owned by competing corporate parents, there could be other machinations at play. 20th Century Fox Television could conceivably have poison pilled negotiations with ABC so that Fox Network could acquire broadcast rights to a highly rated show, and grumbles about ABC dropping a show popular with conservative viewers because of "politics" would help draw those viewers to the show on Fox.