Unveiling Jeffrey Lieber: The Untold Secrets Behind His Masterful Storytelling
Jeff: Mainly, I think it’s because first of all, television writing is very tough on writers, but it’s writer‑friendly in the sense that you are making the calls. It’s the inverse of the way film works in the sense that the last cut is yours. Because television has to happen over many episodes in long arcs, the heart and soul and the voice of the show lives with the writer, not with the director. In that sense, it’s very friendly. The other is that because it’s a medium that, my show on CBS, if I remembered correctly, aired to about nine million, nine and a half a million viewers. You have to check on that, but if you multiply that by seven bucks, you’ve got a $70 million opening. I’m doing the math wrong. But in film terms, you got a massive opening and that happens with all TV shows. There really is an ability to reach an audience that film doesn’t.
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