No not at all... it is rare for shows to make it as long as Once and Again... It was a pretty good run.
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If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn't that show an incredible attention span?
I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
I think it's a very ephemeral thing, what makes a show a success.
It takes a lot out of you to do a one-hour episodic lead of a show. I don't think actors realize that when they take the job.
I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
I've always come into a show when the show was already up and running.
I've done a lot of shows that didn't do well. You have to go in with a 50-50 take on it. If it goes well, fantastic. Hope for the best and plan for the worst.
But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I never know.
Yes, I did some rewrites of the show as some of the stuff was not very good and I worked my butt off to make it something that the audience liked and that I could be proud of.
I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process.