Hallmark Channel Pumps the Power of Predictability

I can’t remember a time when network chiefs didn’t break out in hives at the suggestion that their programming was in any way formulaic or routine. In fact, the late, great Brandon Tartikoff’s condemnation in the early Nineties of “cookie-cutter” television content is still menacingly referenced by media executives, especially around the time of the broadcasters’ annual Upfront presentations.