Unveiling Jeffrey Lieber: The Untold Secrets Behind His Masterful Storytelling
I was part of the re‑breaking and the changing of the show off the beginning and now I’m in one, two days a week, tops, just communicating with them via phone most of the time.
Scott: You worked on series at the broadcast level, CBS, ABC and NBC, and you’ve worked on series at the cable level here at USA, “Unnecessary Roughness.” What are the differences between working on a broadcast TV series and a cable TV series?
Jeff: It’s very similar to what existed maybe 5 to 10 years ago in film, which is that network television has become branded material, very large canvas stuff. You need upwards of 10 million people, minimum, to stay on the air in network television. Cable television is much more niche oriented. Some shows with a viewership of 2 to 3 million are huge hits. There’s “The Walking Dead,” which has now eclipsed half of network television. Most of the cable shows that we all know and love don’t actually have an audience that are nearly as large as anything that has failed on network.
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