Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story.
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The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.
One thing that happens on the 'Newsroom' is that every time a real story does get incorporated into the show, there's always an angle that's provided that hasn't really been dealt with yet.
In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers.
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.
I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the effects of whatever happened on the characters and the people.
There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.
Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene.
Apparently the show happens even if I'm not there. Who knew?
What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories.
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