As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.

It's show business. No show, no business.

The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.

People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

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.