Working as a showrunner has made it tougher to watch other shows and movies.
The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.
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.
I have no problem at all going back and forth between cable and network.
I don't ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it.
There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually.