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Ten episodes goes by really quickly, especially when you've got a really tough shooting schedule of seven-day episodes.

I did a network show in the U.S. before, and I loved it, but you have eight days to shoot an episode, and it's just a ridiculous pace.

In my experience in series TV, if you have a good crew and a great cast, it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other, and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work.

Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?

It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week.

When I was a kid growing up, there might be 10 shows on the air that had been on for ten seasons or eleven seasons. 'Gunsmoke' ran for over twenty years.

7th Heaven is quite a hit for them now, and they are hoping to appeal to a very similar audience with our show; skewed slightly older I guess, since it's a 9:00 to 10:00 show.

Five years is a good run for a sitcom; seven is good, but usually, it's a couple years of staying past your welcome.

And Seinfeld is so quick: we crank out one show a week, and the hours are very reasonable.

I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline.