Making Quote by Joshua Jackson

It's not about creating 22 episodes indefinitely for as long as you can do.

— Thomas Middleditch

It's impossible to make 22 or 16 great episodes every year. It doesn't matter who you are or how talented of a group you have.

— James Roday

Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?

— Tate Donovan

That is one thing I really hate about working in TV - you have to shape episodes to exact time-lengths, do like 22 minutes,…

— Julia Davis

I'll cop to this: so much of doing a 22-episode show is just keeping your head above water.

— Joshua Jackson

One of the tricks that you have to learn, with episodic TV, is you don't know how many years you're going to be blessed…

— Bruno Heller

I think sometimes when you have 24 episodes, you almost have to stretch things out too much.

— Jessica St. Clair

At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

If we're going to sustain 22 episodes a year for the next 10 years, we need that ensemble to fill out the office.

— Rainn Wilson

Looking back now on our workload, I just shake my head at our pace. 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' was my first series, so…

— Ronald D. Moore

You don't necessarily have to watch something for 14 seasons. It's not necessarily the way everything's supposed to be.

— Shonda Rhimes

I like the end of the year to be about something. Especially with younger shows, the network pushes you to make self-contained episodes; they…

— Bill Lawrence