Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.

If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense.

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.

And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.