There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually.
There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.
I don't ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it.
I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.
