Show Business

''The alchemical process of transmuting the muse into money. The business, administrative, and promotional aspects of the creative life go here.''

See also:
 * Advertising Tropes
 * Creativity Leash
 * Fandom
 * Hocus Tropus

Categories:
 * Networks
 * Production Process


 * Always an Actor
 * 30-Day Free Trial
 * Acclaimed Flop
 * Adored by the Network
 * AMPTP
 * Backed by the Pentagon
 * Billing Displacement
 * Bottle Episode
 * Brand X
 * Bland-Name Product
 * Breakthrough Hit
 * Bribing Your Way to Victory
 * Career Resurrection
 * Cash Cow Franchise
 * Cam Whore
 * Cancellation
 * Channel Hop
 * Colbert Bump
 * Comedy Ghetto
 * Content Warnings
 * Contractual Purity
 * Cult Classic
 * Dancing Bear
 * Demographics
 * Don't Try This At Home
 * DRM
 * Edited for Syndication
 * Executive Meddling
 * Executive Veto
 * Franchise Zombie
 * Fan
 * Fan Communities
 * Follow the Leader
 * Follow Up Failure
 * Franchise Killer
 * Genre Killer
 * Creator Killer
 * Stillborn Franchise
 * Star-Derailing Role
 * Freemium
 * Funny Character Boring Actor
 * God Does Not Own This World
 * Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight
 * Hollywood Hype Machine
 * I Was Young and Needed the Money
 * International Coproduction
 * Lead In
 * Limey Goes to Hollywood
 * Luvvies
 * Lying Creator
 * Magnum Opus Dissonance
 * Mean Character, Nice Actor
 * Media Classifications
 * The Merch
 * Merchandise-Driven
 * Microtransactions
 * Misaimed Marketing
 * Midseason Replacement
 * Money, Dear Boy
 * Awesome, Dear Boy
 * Murder Simulators
 * Music Is Politics
 * Network Decay
 * Network Executives
 * Network Red Headed Stepchild
 * Network to the Rescue
 * Nice Character, Mean Actor
 * No Budget
 * No Export for You
 * Marth Debuted in Smash Bros
 * Sequel First
 * Not Screened for Critics
 * Now Buy the Merchandise
 * Obvious Second Choice
 * One Game for the Price of Two
 * Only Barely Renewed
 * Our Lawyers Advised This Trope
 * Outlived Its Creator
 * Paying Their Dues
 * Plagiarism
 * Polish the Turd
 * Product Placement
 * Everybody Owns a Ford
 * Product Displacement
 * Product Promotion Parade
 * Promotional Consideration
 * Promoted Fanboy
 * Contest Winner Cameo
 * Running the Asylum
 * Prop Recycling
 * Ratings
 * Ratings Stunt
 * Real Money Trade
 * The Red Stapler
 * Rerun
 * Revenue Enhancing Devices
 * Revival
 * Revival by Commercialization
 * Safe Harbor
 * Screwed by the Lawyers
 * Screwed by the Network
 * Selling the Show
 * Show Runner
 * Sleeper Hit
 * So My Kids Can Watch
 * Spoil At Your Own Risk
 * Sports Preemption
 * Star-Making Role
 * Sweeps
 * Tabloid Melodrama
 * Target Audience
 * Timeshift Channel
 * Trans Atlantic Equivalent
 * TV Strikes
 * Unions in Hollywood
 * Vacation, Dear Boy
 * Viewers Like You
 * Viral Marketing
 * In-Universe Marketing
 * Wag the Director
 * Watershed
 * Writers Strike
 * Writing Around Trademarks