Episode Length Quotes

That is one thing I really hate about working in TV - you have to shape episodes to exact time-lengths, do like 22 minutes, and it is just so against what you are making.

Ten episodes goes by really quickly, especially when you've got a really tough shooting schedule of seven-day episodes.

In television, you make an hour-long episode every seven days; we used to make 'Party Down' in four days per episode. It's quick and with independent movies is the same: you gotta keep moving. It's very similar.

Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?

Comedies are often half-hour programs and then drama and action series are often an hour.

Storytelling takes many forms, and even feature-length storytelling is often 90 minutes or two hours. There's nothing stopping us from trying to do that on a week-to-week basis.

On every show I've ever done, one of the first network notes is, 'You have to put a time clock on this thing.'

I think sometimes when you have 24 episodes, you almost have to stretch things out too much.

Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages.

We end the show with something that's never been on TV because it was too big for a sketch but we couldn't stretch it out to make a whole episode because it would have been too long, but we always thought it was really good.

A TV show has to be a certain length and, you know, you have expectations from the viewers. You know, you want to see the characters again, or you want to see certain dynamics between the characters or certain kinds of storylines. And you kind of figure out how to best fit what you want to say into that format.

Even though the third season of 'Necessary Roughness' was only ten episodes, they were an extremely intense bunch of episodes, especially toward the finale.