According to the creators Michael Berk and Douglas Schwartz, NBC hated the concept from the beginning. They didn't think a bunch of supermodel-looking men and women running around half-naked in slow motion would keep audience attention, and urged the creators to turn it into a gritty crime drama. "The odds were against us," Michael Berk said. "Network executives didn't think there was a series there. 'How many times can lifeguards run out and do CPR?' We got cancelled. You don't come back from cancellation! So we created first-run syndication just to survive." GTG, the studio backing the show, went out of business. Berk and Schwartz thought the show had potential after a European company called them asking if there were any more episodes to buy. They asked GTG boss Grant Tinker if they could buy back the worldwide rights. Tinker laughed at them and asked for $10, with the caveat that GTG got $5,000 per episode if the show succeeded by the end of the year, and got the show back if it failed. Berk and Schwartz put the word out that they were accepting offers for syndication. A German-owned company, reasoning that any show starring David Hasselhoff would be a hit there, immediately offered $400,000 per episode. The pair got additional funding from British broadcaster ITV on the condition that they made the show family-friendly. The show was launched into first-run syndication, and became a worldwide hit.
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