The anthology format is completely normal to me. That's just how TV works in my experience.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it.
Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format.
TV is a writer's medium.
I have no problem with television as a genre.
We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.
In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense.
Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.
It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.
I think that that is a wonderful format - you know, having individual stories over a period of weeks that are thematically connected in terms of genre - there's not enough of that out there.
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.