The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.
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Listen, a cable series is a beautiful thing because there's such amazing writing happening on television, and it's a schedule that allows you to do a play or two. There's a reason everybody wants that job!
There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.
I respect the hell out of everyone who does a network show. That is a marathon. It's so many episodes, and it can be a meat grinder. Anyone making a network show, and on top of that making a very good network show, that's an insane feat of Herculean endurance and fortitude.
I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.
Extreme programming is an emotional experience.
I do think that the days of gathering around a television set that functions merely as a television set, to receive a live broadcast of some networked programming, those days are probably numbered.
Authentic programming that shows the outside world garners authentic interest.
It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.
Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network shows have a pressure of time and space that is completely different.