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There is a certain sense of loss when a series ends.

Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network shows have a pressure of time and space that is completely different.

Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

Just because we say networks are important doesn't mean that networks explain everything. We're just adding additional information. Networks don't work like a match - they work like a magnifying glass.

It's hard being on a new network, a smaller network.

With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.

The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.

There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually.

The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a species to assemble ourselves in this fashion.