‘Arrested Development’ Almost Went to Showtime, Network Chief David Nevins Reveals

“They were offering all the freedom that we didn’t have,” Showtime president says at Paley Center for Media

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Showtime president David Nevins embraces the fact that not everyone is going to enjoy changes to a TV show, calling television “a medium of imperfection.”

“If you want to be unpredictable, you have to be willing to piss some people off,” Nevins saidย at the ย Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles on Thursday. “Television is such a medium of imperfection. You have to be willing to embrace the imperfection.”

The event saw Nevins look back on the early years of his career as a media executive. He revealed that his first dealings with Showtime came while he was still an executive at Fox.

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