PBS was interested in American High before it was cancelled.

PBS was interested in American High before it was cancelled.
Although PBS wanted FOX’s reality TV show right away, it took them a while to get the rights to American High because FOX wasn’t ready to give it up–even though they cancelled the show. “It is not easy, shall we say, to extract a series from another network, even if they don’t want to broadcast it,” says PBS senior vice president John Wilson.