JamesG
05-11-2018, 10:44 AM
Your last brush with broadcast was in 2013 on CBS' "The Crazy Ones". What happened?
It was terrible. Robin Williams was great, but the show itself was not very good. I went to CBS and I said, "The show is not very good. Do you care?" And the answer was no.
They talked to me a little bit like you talk to your grandfather. "I know this isn't the way it was done in your day, Pop, but the way it is now, people watch TV, they've got their computers open, they're on Facebook, they're answering emails, they're texting. The idea is to have something on that screen that's compatible with everything going on in the room but that isn't going to challenge them to pay attention to plot or offend them enough to make them change the channel."
I was horrified.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/david-e-kelley-talks-big-little-lies-season-2-ally-mcbeal-reboot-1109513
It was terrible. Robin Williams was great, but the show itself was not very good. I went to CBS and I said, "The show is not very good. Do you care?" And the answer was no.
They talked to me a little bit like you talk to your grandfather. "I know this isn't the way it was done in your day, Pop, but the way it is now, people watch TV, they've got their computers open, they're on Facebook, they're answering emails, they're texting. The idea is to have something on that screen that's compatible with everything going on in the room but that isn't going to challenge them to pay attention to plot or offend them enough to make them change the channel."
I was horrified.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/david-e-kelley-talks-big-little-lies-season-2-ally-mcbeal-reboot-1109513