Ken Levine continues to tell the truth about TV. And we continue to love him for it:
My network notes for UNDER THE DOME
by Ken Levine
I don’t get it. Every time we’ve done a series we’ve gotten a shit-ton of network notes. And usually they were very specific.“Where’s the cat? Wouldn’t the cat be in the bedroom at night?”“Is there something healthier than cookies she can pack in her kids’ lunch boxes?”“Did they eat the pizza? They had that big fight in Shakeys but no one ate the pizza they ordered.” (We once got that actual note)
We’d get twenty of these an episode. For a pilot I once had a network guy open an on-set refrigerator to approve the contents.