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The Unit
2006 · TV series · 42 min episodes · 4 seasons
Created by David Mamet
A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets.
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I remember a specific case of this happening with a popular CBS tv show "The Unit". I thought it was quite good. Apparently a lot of other people did too because it was one of their most popular shows. But it was cancelled after 3 seasons and replaced with another garbage reality tv show like Jersey Shore, the Kardashians or Survivor or something.
The reason was that the Unit filmed in different locations and had lots of explosions and other things that made it expensive to film.
They decided they could replace it with a show one third as popular that had 1/20th the production cost.
From a business perspective, you can charge one third as much for ads and still come out way ahead because reality garbage costs nothing to make.
The search for Special Unit 2, for some reason pegged an episode of "The Unit" for Ep1.
A way to tag a show/episode as incorrect would probably be helpful.
I felt The Shield dealt with it very well though, especially the developments in the final episodes. We're supposed to hate all the people in the story that torture, and the 'wrong' of empathizing with them is spelled out in the end (in a much better way, I feel, than The Sopranos did).
In fact, I remember being somewhat shocked by Ryan's follow-up, "The Unit", which seemed much more pro-violence and torture (perhaps through some influence of David Mamet).
Ironically, if you work at large corporation you quite often just can't talk about what exactly you are doing. The amount of secrecy at some companies is worse than at terrible, however enjoyable, TV series "The Unit".