A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.
It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.
Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.
Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.