What we are going to do is continue to grow our content spend on original programming, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of our total spending, because it's been working. It's been helping grow the brand; and more importantly, it's been driving viewing hours relative to how else we would spend the money.

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

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