Arcs Quote by Nathan Fillion

Cable shows do 13 episodes. I get that. I can wrap my head around 13 episodes. You make them all, you post them all,…

— Nahnatchka Khan

Doing a truncated series is like doing a long movie, which allows for a certain artistic freedom. After just 12 episodes, you can take…

— Jimmy Smits

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

There was so much talk about the movie and we thought, "Wouldn't it be great to still do the movie, but to give everybody…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

We had 10 months, sliding schedule to do 52 episodes. After you get over the shock of the size of the number, the job…

— Greg Weisman

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

— Jimmy Smits

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

— Jessica St. Clair

When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.

— Eric Kripke

TV has become long-form now. A season can be like a 13-hour film, separated into episodes, so you can analyse a character for five…

— Ashley Zukerman

Most people, you do a TV series, it ends three, four, five years later; it's a relic,

— Jerry Seinfeld

They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something…

— Rene Auberjonois