360I Moderator: Amanda Altschuler 07-27-12/3:00 pm CT Confirmation # 21600441 Page 25
Stevie Wilson:
Hi, I had to come back and follow back because you had me thinking about how you plot this out. Obviously, you probably have ideas about what’s going on for next season. And given that, you have just changed how the ballgame is being played in this series, and actually, quite frankly, you’re right. Everybody was starting to lose the middle parts and just tune in the for first two, the last two and could figure out how you were - how it was being modeled. And this one has been so very different that you - it’s become again the must see TV. So...
Matt Nix:
That was our goal.
Stevie Wilson:
...you’re - yes, well yes, really. But the point is, is that where - how much farther do you have to reach when it comes to - down to being - plotting and writing to keep up the pace in terms of where your character’s going to go for the next season, which you’ve got to be thinking about?
Matt Nix:
I mean, you got to go a lot deeper. I mean, there’s just no question. It’s - the it does mean - I mean, we actually had to revise how the show is written so that once upon a time an individual writer - basically means all the writers must be way more - well, without being too much - doing too much inside baseball about it. We had to change the way the show gets written from the way that very episodic shows get written to the way that very serialized shows get written. So, in a very, you know, in a very standalone procedural show, you can break an episode and then send the writer off to do that episode and that writer can kind of rejoin the room and get back into the show, you know, in a, you know, when they’re done with their episode, right.
Stevie Wilson:
Right.