Monday, April 03, 2006

Over the past few years I've been hearing a lot of: could the characters in this or that show be deeper, like those wonderful Sopranos characters. Could there be intertwining story lines, like on Sopranos. Etc.

Of course the show is brilliantly written. And characters can always be deeper and richer. Of course.

But the thing execs keep forgetting, is that Sopranos is an actual hour show. It airs on HBO, without commercials. Everyone else's hour show is really forty minutes. Yes, there's been the odd 43 or 47 minute Sopranos ep. But they are usually 50 minutes plus. Often they run 58, 59 minutes.

Can't do that on network. Gotta show the commercials.

There is no doubt Sopranos is a great show. But it also has 20%-50% more time per episode than everyone else. Give me, or anyone else, 10 or 20 more minutes, and we'll throw in some neat character scenes and a D and an E story, too.

(Not to mention, boy: to be able to write and cut the show as long or short as you like...)

12:33 AM

1 Comments:

(to paraphrase the ever-quotable Dubya), i offer two words:

inter-nets.

By  carlitomachete, at 9:13 PM  

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