“We came from network TV. We cut our teeth on network television, and, frankly, we still love it,” she said. “When Betty White, god love her, passed on, all of a sudden you’re seeing these ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ clips and ‘Golden Girls’ clips. That shit’s still funny today. It’s still good today, and it is sort of a mystery why the networks can’t up the game a little bit, because frankly, the network is the place if you want to make some money in this business.” While she clearly believes that streaming and network television can peacefully coexist, Sherman-Palladino lamented that networks have almost completely ceded their status as innovators to the streaming services. “Even if you wanted to do ‘All in the Family’ today, you’d have to go to a streamer,” she said. “You can’t do ‘All in the Family’ on a network television station anymore, which is kind of a bummer because they had that. They owned that. ‘Roseanne,’ at the beginning, was different and edgy and unusual. That could still happen. It just is not happening, so I don’t know.” Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.
