struggling with network tv 's arbitrary rules was often annoying and sometimes dispiriting with the stand and the shining ( and what the producers of it must have gone through i shudder to think of , since one stringent standards and practices rule is that tv dramas must not be built upon the premise of children in mortal jeopardy , let alone dying ) , but both of those shows were based on novels that were written with no regard for network tv 's rules of propriety .