I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation.
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There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.
But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.
Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.
The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.
I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.
I think what's going to happen with linear television is it's going to become more linear. It's going to become more about events and more about award shows, live sports - all those things that, really, you can't replicate.
I just think TV is becoming more and more interesting in a way. Films are more and more derivative, you know, whether it's 'Transformers 2' or 'Shrek 5', or it's yet another iteration of another kind of clone of something else. It's a bit depressing in a way.
Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.
But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'