A network will do better worrying less about not giving an audience enough to like, to be surprised and delighted by, and to engage their attention, than about avoiding, as Klein said, "disturbing their reverie" with something that causes them to change the channel.
Thus, even as channel choices proliferate alongside numerous easily accessed out-of-schedule viewing options, successful television programs remain, as they have always been, formulaic, cliché, "instantly familiar," predictable, and monotonous in tone.
[7] The result was an often mass-produced, bland output of popular culture focused on leisure, targeting the American middle class.
Legal scholars in the 1960s and 70s tried to carve out definitions for “objectionable programming” that reflected the morals of the American populace while still respecting the First Amendment.
Game of Thrones is one of the network’s biggest successes, and its abundance of gore, mature language, and sexual violence has been highlighted as signal that LOP is no longer applicable in modern television.