Obviously, we're disappointed in 'Commander' ticking down the last few weeks.
This one has been a real battle, and it's obviously not turned out exactly the way we'd like. But we love Geena, we love the show, and we wanted to give it another shot.
There's 41 million-plus Hispanics in the viewing market, and we're a broadcast network, so if we can reach more people, that's great.
We wanted to move beyond toe-dipping and really dive in. Almost half of the 41 million Hispanics in this country watch only or mostly Spanish language television, and we want to bring that audience to ABC.
We wanted to move beyond toe-dipping and really dive in.
These shows are great additions to our network and continue ABC's creative and ratings momentum. I applaud all the tremendous work that has gone into making both of these series.
Desperate is such a specific voice that I think it would be a mistake to think you can do those (kinds of) shows again.
Desperate' and 'Lost' are not shows that you can rip off.
Creatively, we just did not get the show where it needed to be. All of us tried really hard ? producers, network, studio ? but it just never got on track.
Creatively we just did not get the show to where it needed to be. All of us tried really hard. I think you have to measure your patience based (on the creative direction of the show). And there we felt like, unfortunately, it was not going to get better.
