When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.
When you're with a big TV channel, there's a sense of having to behave in a certain way in order to get audience figures.
TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.
I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
In the best of all worlds, the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't.
Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want to reinvent the wheel. It's an ego thing.
The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there's an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later.
I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.