Why Hollywood Churns Out Dreck Like New Year’s Eve And Valentine’s Day

“Think about what happens on your cable dial around Christmas. It starts getting clogged with the classics like A Christmas Story, It’s A Wonderful Life, and yes, in recent years, Love, Actually, all beamed into millions of homes. … Nobody actually pays attention to them any more. But their producers still get the same size residual checks every time they air.” Why should Hollywood stop at Christmas?