EP T.J. Miller has explained how The Gorburger Show was saved by Comedy Central after HBO cancelled plans for the series, per THR:
We were very fortunate to have HBO release the pilot. How many networks have released a pilot to go to series on another network? Right? But HBO is so f—ing cool; they’ve got such good programming. I’m lucky to be on three of their programming: Crashing with Pete Holmes, Silicon Valley and, most of all, most exciting is I have an hour comedy special with them.
That’s the difference between HBO and every other network, is they truly are partners. They’re collaborators. I think Netflix may be billed as that, but to tell you the truth, right now, they’re producing so much content that they can’t be particularly involved in any collaboration, whereas HBO understands scarcity and doesn’t produce things just to have content. And that’s been a big part of this: They produced the pilot of Gorburger, decided it wasn’t for them, and then released it to Comedy Central. And then Comedy Central, of course again lauding their programming, said, “I think this is really going to fit with us.”
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