Is Saturday Night TV Dead?

Network television on Saturday nights has become so rarely watched that ABC is basically auctioning off a prime-time slot for anyone who comes up a good idea that can be produced cheaply. This slot is available to any television show that costs less than $500,000 an episode to produce, which is only a quarter of what most shows cost. The television networks' reason for this is because its simply not worth it to spend a lot of money for an audience that had other plans.