[Still, Law was a gamble for NBC.] My big fear, ... was that it would just be talking heads-blah, blah, blah. |
Bob has a terrific metabolism for that job, ... He may not have been the exciting choice, given all of the drama that surrounded the whole issue of succession. But I think he is absolutely the right choice. He knows that company inside and out. |
Every day, there are thousands of crimes all over America -- assaults, rapes, molestations, kidnappings, murders -- creating legions of victims and families of victims. But nobody would ever say you shouldn't do a show on the ongoing urban war on crime. |
I don't think there's going to be a SAG strike, |
I really wanted an opportunity to work with him again, and he was enthusiastic about the idea, |
I'd like an hourly progress report on the FEMA teams on the ground. |
I'm very respectful of the distressing imagery that a show like this, or even NYPD Blue, is capable of evoking in people. |
It always comes down to characters, and individual stories about courage. |
Saved By the Bell. |
The Deployment. |
There's nobody who works harder. There's nobody who's had greater success, ... And if his product is generating billions, then he should get his fair share of that. |
Tuesday night is arguably the most competitive night on television and on the schedule. And Tuesday at 9 o'clock (EST), if you've noticed, is a very, very difficult time slot under the best of circumstances. |
We sort of shut the company down for three or four weeks so that, as a writing group, we could take a deep breath and have a little time to think and plan and get some new material working so that when we came back into production, we could come back into a much more normalized kind of production schedule, which I think we did. And I think the scripts are really good. So given the givens, I think it was as good of a transition as you could have hoped for. |
When your ass is on the block, politics is a luxury. |