You would do 22 episodes then have a vacation, there was a consistency.

Even if your show wrapped there was another round the corner.

There was a discipline in ad breaks and it forced showrunners to make choices, she added.

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Now without these forcing functions, things have sometimes gotten a little bloated I will say.

Its an unbelievable dream, she added.

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