If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you create a good story that has a lot of story value... I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.
In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.
On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.
Don't tell your stories to anyone. You'll be more motivated knowing it's a prerequisite to having an audience.
If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.
I think it's more interesting to throw people into a story and let them catch up instead of explaining and feeling like you have to slow down for them. I think audiences, for the most part, they don't want to be ahead of you.
For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story.
There are plenty of examples of really well-executed shows you could look at and say, 'Well, clearly this show will have an audience; why wouldn't it?' And for whatever reason, it just doesn't catch on. So you never know going in.
I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.
My shows are not narratives.