"The worst thing you can do as a network president is to speak first."

It soon becomes clear that the network president has never even seen their show.

"It was never a goal of mine, up until the day I decided, to become a network president," she says.

Rule served as network president from 1972 to 1983.

It would be nice if a network president took his top people and watched all the pilots and decided which ones they liked best.

"I just see no reason to continue with this system," the network president said.

Robert Mitchum is cool and comic as the network president.

She then turned to a stranger and added, "Other network presidents, they're suits.

"You know how to tell when a network president is lying?"

"The goal of this thing is not to get a bunch of people in the hot tub making out," Jones, the network president, said.