Giving one person the power to sign off on a series cuts through a lot of red tape, and gets people in the studio quicker.
Time can be a great enemy to a new show, and it can even sink a series that airs haphazardly.
These straight-to-series orders are seen on regular television, but not nearly as often.
That said, those same quick orders have caused shows like The Get Down to run into some legal trouble, so there are some downsides.
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