Why couldn't more made for TV movies be as good as this one?

Usually I go for the bad ones on occasion because they have some mindless action, something that takes your mind off of things for a while and just sit back and watch the random fireballs and explosions but Storm Watch/Code Hunter is actually really good. The story deals with a computer hacker who plays pretty much addictingly to a computer game which is also an virtual reality online chat forum as well. Through this game he is blackmailed into stealing some lines of code from an supercomputer and is on the run from the FBI trying to find out who exactly this person is who blackmailed him and what exactly he stole. The story is put out convincingly and though there are several bland moments... (the Secret Service agent getting nervous over the news anchor telling him about her rights and Nick Chase's mother) but that all has to go through the usual B-Movie fare while the rest of it creates characters you actually care about which is quite rare in a B-Movie!