If you've got a restaurant, you definitely want the line to be out the door the first night, but you're more interested in people continuing to come to the restaurant. And that's their outlook, a little bit. I think it allows for more creativity, in the process. It allows people to make interesting programming that maybe wouldn't have a place on broadcast networks, if you were just counting people.

One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based.

My knee-jerk is that it is comedy and, if you watch them all back-to-back, you will gain something and you will lose something.

I don't know how that budget would have been worked out, but that was the initial idea. Obviously, we couldn't have had a show with nine expensive actors in it. It was very nice that they were even interested in doing that. But, I was so proud of what we'd done that I couldn't think of a compelling reason to do a lesser version of it.

We started gearing our content more to what makes us laugh and stories we wanted to tell, and we had to decide, early on, to not be precious about it.

Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.

What you'll gain is the macro story. You'll get a good command of that. And what you might lose is some of the fun of it.