Attitude Quote by Jed Mercurio

First episodes are difficult things to write.

— Michael Hirst

When you're starting on a series, the most important thing in the first episode, or even the first scene, is to very quickly educate…

— Esther Povitsky

In this fragmented world, with such short attention spans, you've got a couple of episodes to make an impression. And if you don't, you…

— David Walton

I think our goal and intention is to make sure that, when you watch each episode, you don't have to make that choice, but…

— Alex Kurtzman

There are story-room sessions where you think about the big picture, like a novel, but once you have certain things in place, you have…

— Shawn Ryan

I feel like every first episode of a TV show is bad, you know, and it always improves.

— Anthony Jeselnik

The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that…

— Michael Patrick King

Lots of people do stand up shows with no narrative, but I love a beginning, a middle and an end.

— Ellie Taylor

You can do a show with lots of storylines. You can cram it with issues. People will keep up.

— Nicholas Hammond

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all.…

— Douglas Wilson

You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.

— Christopher Meloni

The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and…

— Steven Moffat