Bela Bajaria

You know, look, I knew there was always going to be a personality thing.

There was also the way it was structured and the reporting lines were a little murky, which is not good, right, when you have clarity.

And historically in Hollywood, there's this tension between sibling studios, the sister studio and the network, and the studio has to do usually what's right for the studio.

I'm running a business, I'm running this business, I want to be successful, which means then you sell shows outside.

You do that to support the creators and showrunners who are like, oh, I came up with this idea, I wrote this thing.

And I believed in it.

This network, my sister network doesn't want it.

We're not going to like light it on fire, stick it in a drawer.

Like it's a creator who we value, who's amazing and has a vision of a really great show.

And we are going to go to Fox and go sell it or we are going to go to Netflix and go sell, you know.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt or Master of None or different things.

Like, we are going to do that.

First of all, it's right for the studio business.

A job, I'm running the studio.

And it was the right thing to do to support creators and talent.

That many times can mean conflict, right?

With the Scissor Network, who's a little bit like, well, we want your good stuff and we want you to be successful.

We don't really want you to be successful outside and give other people head shows.

Right.

So it's it's it's historically a very it's always messy.