There are story-room sessions where you think about the big picture, like a novel, but once you have certain things in place, you have to treat each episode like an hour of TV, and think that maybe this will be the only episode that anyone will ever watch. You want to have some sort of beginning, middle, and end to the episode, even if you have storylines that are carrying over. You still want it to feel like a cohesive hour of entertainment. And you can't think about both at the same time.
Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going t… - Shawn Ryan
Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going t…
- Shawn Ryan
Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the book satisfied. An… - Shawn Ryan
Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the book satisfied. An…
I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to. - Shawn Ryan
I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.
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. - Shawn Ryan
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.
Nothing makes me happier than to have a smart person tell me why the show is smart, especially if I didn't intend that. I tend to be a very instinctu… - Shawn Ryan
Nothing makes me happier than to have a smart person tell me why the show is smart, especially if I didn't intend that. I tend to be a very instinctu…
I always think it's better to take your time and go through a lot of ideas - and dismiss a lot of ideas - before figuring out where to land. It's a g… - Shawn Ryan
I always think it's better to take your time and go through a lot of ideas - and dismiss a lot of ideas - before figuring out where to land. It's a g…
Cheers was one of the first shows where I paid attention to the writers because their [work] was better than everything else I was watching. The writ… - Shawn Ryan
Cheers was one of the first shows where I paid attention to the writers because their [work] was better than everything else I was watching. The writ…
I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great. - Shawn Ryan
I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.
I have no problem at all going back and forth between cable and network. - Shawn Ryan
I have no problem at all going back and forth between cable and network.
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