If there's anything about longevity in television, it's about knowing what to take and what to turn down, and what to stop.
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A lot of factors go into the longevity of a show.
I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.
There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.
TV can be a long commitment.
It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.
The whole thing about doing TV is that you never know what's going to happen. You just have to go with it and go with the flow.
While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.
It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the way those problems are.
Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.
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