Star Trek The Next Generation: The pilot episode encounter at far point was originally just visiting the station. The Execs wanted a two-hour premier event so The Q-Plot was tacked on.


Executives ask for a younger teenage batman show with the caped crusader still in high school. We got Batman Beyond.


Executive meddling on Kid's Next Door gave us the 2x4 technology rather then traditional looking high tech gadgets.


In the movie Tremors, executives wanted Michael Gross for the role of Burt Gummer... who is now probably more important to the film series then the Graboids.

I can not even begin to go into what was removed from Zootopia by executive meddling.