[Incentives to film companies (who make movies) have been shown to be a waste of money.  At best they’re a flash in the pan (they only create temporary jobs) and at worst they bring in less revenue than they cost.  Backing broadcast network shows is also a losing proposition since the vast majority of their TV pilots never see airtime.  Whereas cable network TV pilots always see airtime as “specials” (and are run numerous times in numerous timeslots) and if they are picked up as a series, they tend to run for a very long time (usually well past the cow’s ability to produce milk.  Steak, anyone?).  And syndicated shows are even better as they can be cancelled by a TV station and still continue to run on all of the other TV stations they are syndicated to.  Whereas even popular broadcast and cable TV shows (e.g., Special Unit 2, which was increasing in its ratings when it was unbelievably cancelled by a newly-hired network executive) can be cancelled by a single network executive for simply being perceived as the shows of the previous network executive or for not going in the direction the new executive wants the network to go.]