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They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum.

When we first started, everything was animated, everything was comedy, and there was really nothing that was longer than about two minutes, because that's all audiences would watch.

Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.

Doing a truncated series is like doing a long movie, which allows for a certain artistic freedom. After just 12 episodes, you can take a breather and do other things for your career.

It's a lot of a workload doing an hour dramatic show. It's just incredible what little time off you get.

The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.

I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why exactly.

Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to know one another, whereas most shows get two weeks. It looked like we would never have a chance.

That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.