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

Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.

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

I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.

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