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

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.

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

The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.

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

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

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.