Basically what I'm saying is when you have a writer like David Milch who's created and written some of the best television ever, as a courtesy I'd let him take his show wherever he wanted to for a limited time.
Say, move JFC to a differnt night and tell him, 'Hey, please, tie up some of these loose ends so people will still watch" and throw on the new season of Deadwood in JFC's off season.
David Milch will still probably stay with HBO because he can get away with murder on that station but as a professional courtesy I would have said *beep* who don't watch it' and kept it going on a differnt night.
Soprano's old time slot is a huge gap to fill, JFC had a try and it didn't work. The people who liked the show would certainly watch it on any other night in the week.
Maybe that's not 'great business' but keeping a great writer like that happy is.
"My future starts when I wake up every morning" Miles Davis
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