My greatest fear and concern about TV is what seems to be the narrowing of creative boundaries, based on the fact there are fewer sensibilities from a corporate point of view that allow for diversity of content. That doesn't exist today. TV has become this extraordinary economic juggernaut. It is a division of corporate America in a way it never was before. The economic, bottom-line shareholder pressures have created a medium where no one has a distinctive philosophy of broadcasting.
Networks only seek the most lucrative sector of the marketplace and then pander to it.
So you begin to see less adventurism in programming and development. Unfortunately, the risk is that imagination becomes vestigial because it doesn't get used. Writers simply do what they are asked to do. Hardly anyone sits down and truly originates programs based on what they uniquely want to do. Norman Lear used to do it.