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The news comes on the heels of Showtime green-lighting three pilots on Monday, the docu-comedy Gurland On Gurland, the book adaptation Masters of Sex and a drama from Southland creator Ann Biderman.
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Cable networks have their own development divisions, and USA and TNT in particular are green-lighting more projects than ever before.
Ask Matt: Finale Fever, Cougar Town, The Killing, Cancellation Fallout and More! 2011
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A bigger risk came in green-lighting season two, after a first season that didn't exactly set the world on fire.
Evan Shapiro: Nobody Knows Anything Evan Shapiro 2012
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In green-lighting the project, Secretary Salazar ordered it to be scaled down significantly and will require the developers to take additional steps to mitigate potential impacts of the development.
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A bigger risk came in green-lighting season two, after a first season that didn't exactly set the world on fire.
Evan Shapiro: Nobody Knows Anything Evan Shapiro 2012
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And because green-lighting ideas that turn out to be failures will be noticed more than killing radical but promising ones, many people err on the side of caution.
Failure in an Open-Access Order, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Just two months after debuting the controversial teen drama Skins, MTV is once again green-lighting an adaptation of another popular British show, The Inbetweeners, along with four other new shows, EW reports.
MTV Orders Adaptation of Brit Comedy Inbetweeners, Four New Reality Shows 2011
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If this wasn't green-lighting, it was the next thing to it.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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A bigger risk came in green-lighting season two, after a first season that didn't exactly set the world on fire.
Evan Shapiro: Nobody Knows Anything Evan Shapiro 2012
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's decision cleared the way as a green-lighting of the planned community cultural center.
Court Hears Claims Against Mosque Chris Herring 2011
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