You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.

There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.

Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going to allow.

TV is just such a fast-moving medium that you do what you can do, and what you can't do, you don't worry about too much.

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

When you start a TV show, you're not necessarily thinking, "Are we setting up what we need for season seven?" You're just trying to stay on the air, and you try to learn your job as you go, and do what you can.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.