I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.
When you are in the 8 o'clock position, you can either be a cultural phenomenon, or you're endangered. It's a tough time slot.
I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline.
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When you fall into a midseason slot, you have the sort of blessing of not being on television while you shoot most of your season.
I would love for TNT to run the whole season at one point. I don't think that'll ever happen, though.
Cable shows do 13 episodes. I get that. I can wrap my head around 13 episodes. You make them all, you post them all, and then you get to air them. The network cycle is way more intense. There's more episodes.
Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?
I watched Anderson Cooper 360 for a year before I realized that the second hour was a repeat of the first. I just thought his reporting seemed familiar.
You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.
