Air Quote by Nahnatchka Khan

The great thing about working in cable is that, since the season is truncated - we only do 12 shows - the writers are…

— Jimmy Smits

With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable,…

— Valerie Cruz

Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network…

— James Frain

Obviously, it's not cable, it's streaming, but it's the same format. It's the same 10 episodes. It feels like cable as opposed to network.

— Christian Cooke

When you only do 10 episodes for a final season, every character and all of her interactions in every storyline have so much more…

— Mindy Kaling

Look, we can definitively agree that cable is far superior to network. That isn't to say that there can't be a great network drama…

— Damon Lindelof

It feels as though, with all of these cable series or Internet shows or limited series events that are only 10 or 13 episodes...…

— Annie Wersching

There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes…

— Shawn Ryan

People watch three or four episodes at a time of their shows.

— Idris Elba

The territory has changed, and a lot of really good actors want to do cable series, but they don't necessarily want to do network…

— Richard LaGravenese

It used to be that you had to do a certain number of episodes to hit syndication in order to try to keep a…

— Terence Winter

Being in the industry, I've seen many situations where someone will get the call from the network where they say 'You guys have 5…

— Nathan Fillion