To be fair, a lot of shows do this when they're looking for a home initially

The Walking Dead was pitched first to HBO and the first episode and Season 1 were more geared towards being on HBO. (season one is the only time the super no no racist hard r was used) Allegedly HBO would have kept Frank Durabont and his vision for TWD would have continued instead of being fired and replaced with Charlie Adlard

HBO also passed on Breaking Bad and Mad Men too (Jesus Christ did they fire the exec who said no to both of these??)

I looked up the your Stargate SG1 compliant and it's because it was in Showtime but moved very quickly to Sci-Fi. Apparently Showtime forced them to participate in the R rated content (nudity) and the producers hated it