The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.

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

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

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.

Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

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