On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and it's partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days.
Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience - to see something that's not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it's like their lives.
As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.
Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.
The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.
The challenge in daytime in particular, I think, is to go against all the traditional cliches of daytime and try to make it real.
I actually prefer night shoots to days. I prefer being up. It's easier for me. I'm more of a night person.
I don't know enough about daytime, I think, to say anything.