The Internet companies have mostly avoided hiring “Hollywood” executives to acquire and manage their original content, instead giving those responsibilities to those already at their companies who have no real experience in creating filmed entertainment. This is understandable: They know these established employees can be trusted, they speak the same language, and they are all comfortable with each other’s ugly clothes and sexlessness. But they don’t appear to be developing much on their own, just buying stuff from big-name producers. In my experience, this won’t work. I wish it did, since I’m a producer and would love nothing more than to eliminate the burden of having to deal with intrusive network executives.
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/10/hulu_netflix_arrested_developm.html