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Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers.

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The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

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Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

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I didn't care about that because I'm not a diplomatic person to begin with. I just went along with things and did what I wanted to do because I knew they had to shoot their 12 pages a day. And when they realized that I didn't alter the text they really didn't mind what I did.

It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore.

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What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.