"A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on."

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"A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on."

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"Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest."

Popularity

"Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential."

Potential

"There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes."

Writer

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Time

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Work

"Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week."

Opinion

"The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers."

Now

"When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said."

Being

"I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series."

Age

"And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done."

Children