I can count on one hand how many times someone’s creative endeavors that when aired/sold to a network went back to them. I can’t begin to tell you how many times someone has a 100% original idea, a network funded it, aired it at such a bad time or had such bad ad campaign for it, it failed.

Then the network claims it as a tax write off so it never gets aired again, and no DVD/Blu-Ray sales are allowed. And the artists who worked on it can’t get any rights to what they made. Because a company somewhere couldn’t make money with the idea, now no one can. Even the inventor.

Animation is among the more common ones to have this happen to.