Despite being NBC's highest-rated show in the Friday 8 p.m. time slot since Supercar (1982), Baywatch didn't meet expectations (critically or commercially), they were canceled after 22 episodes. In a double whammy, the studio behind the production, GTG (owned by former NBC executive and Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) producer Grant Tinker) was shutting down. Billy Warlock insisted to Esquire that ratings had nothing to do with the cancellation; rather, "we just didn't have the money. It was a big show." Michael Berk and Douglas Schwartz's uncle, Sherwood Schwartz, the creator of L'isola di Gilligan (1964) and La famiglia Brady (1969), advised his nephews to buy the rights to their show from GTG. Which they did, for $10. "If we weren't successful at the end of that year, they got Baywatch back," Schwartz told the New York Times in 2017. "If we were successful they got $5,000 an episode." They asked Hasselhoff to take a 50 percent pay cut in exchange for an executive producer role. The Hoff's popularity in Germany helped them secure $300,000 an episode from "continental Europe" as part of a first-run syndication deal, Berk told Esquire and at the height of its popularity, Baywatch reached a weekly audience of 1.1 billion people in 142 countries.
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