If it were just a matter of buying ready-made TV, anybody could do it. Showrunners come to them with raw ideas and the first step is to filter out most of the

If it were just a matter of buying ready-made TV, anybody could do it. Showrunners come to them with raw ideas and the first step is to filter out most of the bad ones. Then there's writing, casting, budgeting, filming, editing, marketing...you make it sound like HBO is a bunch of cardboard cutouts and they just order up completed shows from Amazon. My point is AT&T has done practically zero creative or truly innovative in the last 20-25 years, it's comical to listen to a career AT&T suit lecture HBO staffers (who excel in a field far more difficult than his) about how they need to work harder.