tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10697975.post110846072042655754..comments2024-01-13T07:01:37.544-06:00Comments on I Am A Child Of Television: Whatever Happened To? (#1 of a series)Brent McKeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14883838112004433045noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10697975.post-1108486927021799112005-02-15T11:02:00.000-06:002005-02-15T11:02:00.000-06:00I'm not sure. I think if the stick to the essentia...I'm not sure. I think if the stick to the essentials they could do it. There is a lot in most hour shows that is "just" character development for the leads. Consider this however: the "Law" portion of the original "Law & Order" works out to roughly half an hour. If you were to ditch the "Order" part or reduce it to a coda at the end in the manner of <I>Dragnet</I> you would have a self contained half hour drama.Brent McKeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14883838112004433045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10697975.post-1108485235838936482005-02-15T10:33:00.000-06:002005-02-15T10:33:00.000-06:00Brent, do you think a half-hour drama could be don...Brent, do you think a half-hour drama could be done today? Even back in the 1960s they had 25 minutes to develop a story; now it's about 20 with all the wretched commercials and promos. They'd barely get into the story before it was time for it to be over.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00684124498981972463noreply@blogger.com