All love stories rest on the leads, and if they work, the show works, and if they don't, the show won't work, no matter how good the writing is.
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The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers.
I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters.
Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.
There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.
If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.
When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.
If the characters are compelling, readers will follow anywhere.
All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.
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