Query: Why do some networks spend money creating animated programs?

The Porygon episode (or to be more accurate, a scene-for-scene remake of it) most deffinatley WILL be shown on American TV someday, probably around 20 years or so from now.

How do I know this?

My lifelong dream is to break into the animation business someday and form my own animation company. One of the projects I have planned is to aquire the dubbing rights for Pokemon from PUSA (much like they aquired it from 4KIDS) and, after that, producing a scene-for-scene remake of it (with all the flashing seizure scenes replaced with something safer, of course). I also plan on producing remakes of the Dratini episode (with the gunplay replaced with something more TV-Y7 friendly) and the Ice Cave episode (using the nonoffensive purple version of Jynx). I also plan on calling the Japanese Producers and begging them to let us dub the Barboach episode. And to top it all off, I will insert 2 new episodes into the series, one taking place during the Johto saga and another taking place in the Diamond-Pearl saga, which will feature Porygon2 and PorygonZ, respectivley.
And yes, I hope to use the old voice actors for this. Look for it sometime during the 2020s.
 
Because by the time a network realizes a show is bad enough to be canceled, all episodes have finished production and airing them or withholding them makes no difference in terms of expenses. So they'd rather air something that brings in the better ratings than a show that failed.

That's the logical answer, but in cases like Nickelodeon where a single season can air in the span of six years, with the show still in reruns, there's little rhyme and reason as to why it happens. I suppose it's so that new episodes can eventually air in case of a revival, but by then it's more likely viewers have forgotten about the show.

One last thing, the Angry Beavers finale was never finished (it's just an audio track and maybe some storyboards) so it doesn't really count. Besides, the actual last finished episode ("Deck Poops"), worked quite well as a finale.
 
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