Dated television news covering pickups, renewals, cancellations, casting, premiere dates and showrunner changes, each attributed and corrected in place.
The made-for-TV movie was invented to fill a schedule and occasionally became the thing the nation talked about the next morning; its history is the history of television's self-esteem.
Most movie-to-television transfers treat a two-hour premise like a seven-season asset; the ones that work do the opposite, and the pattern is legible enough to diagram.
The theatrical exclusive spent decades as the industry's load-bearing wall; streaming removed it in roughly eighteen months, and television is what moved in.