You're Not Going to be on TV

I am an old hand at not being on TV. There are more of us than you'd imagine. Let's survey the whole field from top down, from the perspective of someone who was actually a prospect. At any given moment a handful of hit TV shows make lots of money. So much money that they shower down nourishment for the entire TV ecosystem. There are also a few dozen (I'm making up numbers, but the gist is correct) TV shows simply holding on, chugging along, and making good money. And in TV world, "good" money can make a bunch of people wealthy. You can become a mogul producing decent TV shows that merely chug along for a while. Then there are failures that disappear without a trace. Hundreds of them, and even here there is money to be made. If you're on the air, you're being paid TV money. A C-list actor (or producer, editor, cinematographer, etc.) who does a succession of dismally unpopular projects is "working" all that time, and getting paid TV money for that work. The largest part of the iceberg…