Post by Nickifan on Feb 2, 2010 17:37:20 GMT -5
From an LA Times article on 1/9/10:
latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/01/more-to-big-love-cocreator-will-scheffer-talks-season-4.html#more
...Why only nine episodes?
HBO [was] really pushing us to get the show airing in January again, after last year’s January debut. So that was difficult for us — the way the show works, the kind of hands-on quality that [co-creator] Mark [V. Olsen] and I have on every single aspect of it. And the only way that they could make post-production ready to have an airable episode for [Sunday] was if we shortened the order to nine. So that’s the only reason. [glow=red,2,300]And so hopefully next year we’ll do 11 or 12, to get back to a fuller place. [/glow]
Even with everything that you’re putting into these episodes, it’s still sort of like, wait: only nine episodes?
I know. It was, well, OK, we’ll do it, because we wanted to get the show to the people sooner.… If circumstances could have been different, we could have just gone on in March. [glow=red,2,300]And hopefully we’ll go on in March next year, instead of January. And that’ll give us the time we need to do a couple more episodes, and also have a little bit less of a hectic season. [/glow]
latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/01/more-to-big-love-cocreator-will-scheffer-talks-season-4.html#more
...Why only nine episodes?
HBO [was] really pushing us to get the show airing in January again, after last year’s January debut. So that was difficult for us — the way the show works, the kind of hands-on quality that [co-creator] Mark [V. Olsen] and I have on every single aspect of it. And the only way that they could make post-production ready to have an airable episode for [Sunday] was if we shortened the order to nine. So that’s the only reason. [glow=red,2,300]And so hopefully next year we’ll do 11 or 12, to get back to a fuller place. [/glow]
Even with everything that you’re putting into these episodes, it’s still sort of like, wait: only nine episodes?
I know. It was, well, OK, we’ll do it, because we wanted to get the show to the people sooner.… If circumstances could have been different, we could have just gone on in March. [glow=red,2,300]And hopefully we’ll go on in March next year, instead of January. And that’ll give us the time we need to do a couple more episodes, and also have a little bit less of a hectic season. [/glow]
