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Compare [[Critical Dissonance]], [[Quality by Popular Vote]]. [[Better on DVD]] is the Television series [[Screwed by the Network|equivalent]].
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* [[Comedy Central]] seems to have rescued ''[[Accepted]]''.
* [[Adult Swim]] is where animated shows go to get reborn. In addition to its most famous example, ''[[Family Guy]]'' (as discussed below), it's perhaps the reason why ''[[Futurama]]'' got four DVD movies and a [[Comedy Central]] [[Uncanceled|revival]]; ''[[Home Movies]]'' only lasted half a season on [[UPN]] but eventually got another three and a half as an Adult Swim original. This even applied to anime once - ''[[The Big O]]'' received terrible ratings in Japan but it was Cartoon Network that funded a second season.
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* ''[[The Beastmaster]]'': The film was a critical and box office failure upon its 1982 release, grossing just $3 million against a $9 million budget. However, it subsequently received significant cable airplay, notably [[HBO]] and [[TBS]], where it became a TV mainstay and viewer favorite. Its replay was so common that some waggishly dubbed TBS "The Beastmaster Station", and HBO "Hey, Beastmaster's On". Some people might find it hard to believe, but in 1993, ''The Beastmaster'' was playing somewhere in the United States, every hour, for two months. This might not actually be a joke.
* ''[[Flash Gordon (film)|Flash Gordon]]'': Its popularity in America was due in part to airings on HBO.
* The film ''[[It's a Wonderful Life]]'' didn't make a whole lot of waves upon its release, having received mostly dismissive or negative reviews (with the notable exception of [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine]], and even they complained that it was ultimately superficial and sentimental). However, after it was accidentally released into the public domain in 1974, it became a Christmas standard, and a new generation came to see it as a classic and one of the best films ever made. In this case, it was repeated airings on broadcast stations, not basic cable, that brought the film its new status, but the principle is the same.
** Later, when showing this movie on nearly every TV channel had become a Christmastime tradition, it was discovered that not ''all'' parts of the movie were actually in the public domain—the musical score, in fact, is still under copyright. With this revelation, only those broadcasters willing to pay for the rights could show it, and viewers had to tune in to one of those few venues who did for their annual fix.
** It's somewhat of an urban legend that Ted Turner built his media empire on repeated airings of this movie, though that distinction more properly belongs to some of the films already mentioned or mentioned below.
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