In this time, with a record amount of scripted TV airing (around 500 shows are expected to air in 2017, which is NUTS), you might think that it would be easy for a show to get cancelled. But in fact, the opposite is sort of true: even low-rated shows can continue on for years. In part, it’s because the demand simply outstrips the supply; in part, it’s because no network wants to risk missing out on a “Breaking Bad” (which was low-rated at first before exploding in its later seasons); and in part, it’s because digital downloads, streaming services and a boom in the overseas market for U.S.

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As you’ll know from our list of the best TV shows of the first half of 2016, and from our summer preview, it’s been a stacked year on the small-screen so far. There have been disappointments —chiefly, a show that starts with V and ends with -inyl— but also some surprises and triumphs, with “The Girlfriend Experience,” “Billions,” “Stranger Things,” “Lady Dynamite,” “The People Vs.

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Amazon's Fall Pilots Include Shows Directed By Shane Black, Jonathan Dayton And Valerie Faris, Tim Blake Nelson, And More

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