Developed and then rejected by Showtime, the musical comedy "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" landed at the pay channel's sister network, The CW, where it was retooled from a 30-minute comedy into a one-hour show.
The odds were stacked against the show. It was created by and starred an unknown in Rachel Bloom and had already bounced around networks, and who knew whether it would fly on the youth-skewing CW?
Well, it worked out. Critics loved it, and Bloom's performance won CW's second Golden Globe award.