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.

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

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

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's show business. No show, no business.

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.