Kevin Reilly
Kevin Reilly
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It showed us that audiences could connect to a guy so deeply flawed as to be a murderer.
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It's a very high-octane show with a pace that we've never seen in the 'Law & Order' shows before -- very kinetic, and very young, ... I don't want any assumptions (by the viewer) that it needed to adhere to the 'Law & Order' conventions.
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It's been a struggle to find that next evolution of comedy. Earl was our highest-testing show in 15 years, which was kind of a surprise. But we definitely need cutting-edge comedies like that.
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It's not dead, but I don't have any plans on it.
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It was more a statement about the network and our mandate to move forward, ... a very clear sign in the ratings that it was time to move on.
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It's not entirely analogous, because those movies were ready-made products you could go and acquire. With this, at best, there's probably something that's going to be a presentation for something that becomes a pilot for something that could eventually become a series.
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The best place to be is where you're desperate enough to take chances. That's why I took the job (in May 2004) -- I knew what I was in for . . . That's when you can do something fun -- what have you got to lose?
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It will definitely be on in the fall.
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It's been tough sledding on the advertising front, and it's something that we anticipated going in and would be willing to weather if the audience in fact embraced the show.
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It literally took any residual sense of entitlement, or complacency, at our company and blew it out,
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We wanted to send the show off with dignity.
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We're struggling on the comedy side. Everybody is, ... I cannot believe that the country does not want to laugh at this time, with the news only going from bad to worse.
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This season may not see a turnaround for us.
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Both Donald and Mark Burnett expressed concern about having to go on back-to-back nights,