The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.
If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.
Reality television has borrowed so much from the world of politics, whether it's alliances or voting or the kind of strategizing that's done. Anything like that came from politics well before it came from reality television.
I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.
When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.
When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.
As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.
I think it's a very ephemeral thing, what makes a show a success.