Robert Greenblatt Quotes

#1. The shows you can do in cable are just more buzzworthy and are about subject matter that's more unusual or dark. And broadcast shows tend to be more mainstream or middle-of-the-road.

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#2. The beauty of cable is you could program for 18-year-old twins and get a hit show on cable.

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#3. I have throbbing headaches about a lot of things, and Howard Stern isn't one of them.

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#4. Every so often, it's time to make a change with a showrunner; you evaluate the creative and how the show is run, how the writing staff works.

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#5. My dream as a teenager was to run a movie studio, as in the old studio system.

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#6. Comedy is king for me; it's the genre that everyone loves.

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#7. I've just always been a proponent of having a lot of diversity in the shows I've done. I just think that's the world we live in.

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#8. I'll take any vampire fans I can get. Dracula isn't a serial killer story.

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#9. I would categorically not rule out that it's not the last season of Community. Does that make sense? I would love nothing more than for Community to have a following on Friday, and to be able to continue it.

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#10. I'm inordinately proud of Smash, on so many levels. The complexity of producing that show, every week, is just incredible. As a television producer and as a Broadway producer, which I once was, I am in awe of what we can do on that show, every week.

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#11. In every soap, at the end of the season, relationships end and people leave the show. You look at characters and evaluate whether they're great characters or not, and whether they have a future in the show. And we did all of that.

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#12. I think we're going to transition with our comedy programming, trying to broaden the audience and broaden what the network does. Those Thursday comedies, which the critics love and we love, tend to be a bit more narrow than we'd ultimately like, as we go forward.

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