Jasmin Bhasin Quotes

I've worked on 30-something different TV shows, and most of the people can't stand each other.

Things end in this business. Shows get canceled, or you walk away from them - but most likely, things get canceled.

No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.

Being in the industry, I've seen many situations where someone will get the call from the network where they say 'You guys have 5 episodes to wrap it up.' Then all your long-term story arcs gotta get wrapped up in five episodes because that's how many episodes you got left. I would hate to see that happen to 'Castle'.

The lifespan of any show is to end in cancellation.

I do realize that television shows end.

I just don't see ABC letting go of soaps completely.

I've been on so many primetime shows that were cancelled - after one episode, after 10 episodes, after just one season. I got used to that. But I found myself choking up a bit at 'OLTL.' It was really hard to say goodbye to those people. It was not the way we wanted to go out.

I watch 'Sons of Anarchy' and 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Walking Dead' and think, 'I want to create that kind of television!'

Season 4 can be deadly for a show that's been a hit show.

When I left 'Being Human,' that was painful because the show was going on without me. But with 'Him & Her,' we finished on such a high together that if it is the end, it couldn't have stopped at a better time. But I hope with 'Him & Her' that we'll get another crack of the whip: that the writer might change his mind and write some more.

Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.

I believe that 99 percent of successful TV shows change an immense amount from the pilot to the tenth or twelfth episode.

The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.

I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication.

There is a 90% failure rate for most shows. It's difficult for any show to write for the next season.

Whenever these shows end, it's tough. Everybody's gonna feel it.

There are not that many people who can say they have been on a show long enough to leave it. Usually, you don't have a choice. The show gets canceled. There are very few people who live in the rare air of being able to leave a show while it is still in production.

Not many people whose series gets cancelled get to come and put the period at the end of the sentence.

A lot of shows, like 'Cupid,' that I loved with all my heart, it shouldn't have been canceled.

When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.

In the movies, you typically do get to see the script beforehand. TV is different because there are a lot of scripts in the future that you haven't seen. You commit to a show, and you have to believe in the showrunner and their team and the stories they're going to tell.

Any show in its first season goes through multiple changes. There is little or no difference to changing the cast on a talk show.

There are so many shows that go on endlessly until they lose their original spark, or mysteries that are cancelled before they ever get a chance to payoff.

Normally we go in, we do a series and then that's it, we're axed!