I would require networks to make a stronger committment to any series in which they choose to invest and if they elect to spent millions on a pilot they should be required to support the project for at least 20 episodes.

I realize that the idiots that run the networks would probably go into a shell of low budget stuff but that would ultimately come back to haunt them and at least the public would not be tantalized with good programming that never had a chance from the start.

In the present arrangement we are flooded with dumb reality based programming that makes enough money for them to produce the odd decent show which is canceled without a chance to build ratings. If the cost of producing a series is prohibitive, they should know that from the getgo and never produce it to begin with.