It's show business. No show, no business.

[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural."

I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.

People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.