How has the experience been with Starz?
Rob: Unbelievably great. It’s why I’m pitching them this Austin rock band drama I’m working on. I want to work with those guys. I want to be happy going to work. I want to do a show I’m proud of. Starz gives us notes, they have thoughts on the show, they have thoughts on the script, and we do a number of their notes, but the ones we disagree on that we don’t want to do, we never hear from them again. There have maybe been 2 or 3 notes this year where we said we want to do it our way, and they said, “Really, we want you to reconsider this.” The reason we have is they’ve been so genial and supportive. It’s just nice doing a show for a network that clearly loves the show and are happy you’re doing it with them. This year has taught me that I would be much happier, even if the number of viewers are in the hundreds of thousands, rather than millions, if I can be doing something I’m proud of with a supportive group of people. There are some quirks of working with a network that’s new to orig
