Since there is a question mark across your post, I want to answer it and say
NOT necessarily, see in my view and I have maintained this from the beginning, the buck does not stop with the channel, the quality of the content buck stops with the creator.
The one I will be vary of is not SP about SS...Sandip Sickand, Star gave you money and told you get these trps and you will stay, as a creative person, you need to get creative with your story and with the way you sell your story to the audience and the channel.
End of the day, SP is a business so their motivations are very very clear. I have an issue with the creative team who didn’t trust their creativity and just became stoogies...Sickand knew very well how this works, he has been the show runner for many many Ekta shows, he knows this business. And the way the last weeks track has gone it tells me that Sickand isn’t very mature. The way he has blamed everyone except himself tells me a lot about him. If his work was really qualitative I would stop watching Star, but when the content was getting awful some months ago, he went around on SM blaming the channel so much that forum members also sang the same song. He had the audacity to tell all fandoms increase trp then ronakshi can be saved...no, get us better stories and save ronakshi don’t make us watch shitzzz.
The audience at home- trp audience is smarter, they actually stopped watching when the show went to shitzzzz...the whole marriage track which was apparently brought in to save trps was BS! Attempted rape was the track!!! I mean come on!! That’s not creativity, it’s Laziness!! The creative team lost this show long ago not the channel.