Who is mitch hurwitz

But at the end of the editing process I suddenly realised, oh, people are just going to binge-watch these shows — I don't know if we're doing the right delivery system. So when the shows went up, the first thing I read was Twitter and Twitter is self-selecting, in that if people are writing directly to me and using the hashtag, then they're probably being positive. Then we got a couple of those not so good reviews.

You have to ask: "So what is the point? Do you try to get all good reviews? Get 30 million people to watch it? People who loved it. You just say: "I hope this finds people who appreciate it. It felt like a series for the fans I was aware that you can't be indifferent to your audience.

I remember talking to Chris Guest once and he said: "I don't really care about my audience, I just do my comedy. But I think he did care. Especially with comedy, if you wanna get a laugh, you have to care about your audience. So the first job for me was thinking about the people who had so taken to the show. And I think a lot of them were disappointed because they had a different expectation of what the show was going to be.

Even when I did the original series, with every episode audiences would say, "Oh they ruined the show. Now it's everyone's favourite episode. People complained when there was more action, they hated Annyong, they hated Pier Pressure — every episode was like that. Then this new audience came along and they didn't differentiate between the episodes, they just looked at it all as Arrested and loved it.

Now that the tone of Arrested Development's first three series has influenced so many shows, such as Community and 30 Rock, did you feel pressure to be revolutionary with the fourth series? I always felt internal pressure to not repeat myself and it became really difficult to run a TV show that way because that's not how TV works.

Even writing for the Golden Girls I remember my first episode was when Betty became the smart one — that was new. I remember somebody once said: "Your style is made from what you can't do," and I think I felt like: "Well I can't write jokes as well as these Golden Girls writers, so my stories will be more intricate or I'll find twists," and that has kind of remained my style even though I developed as a joke writer.

Even in the second episode of Arrested I decided to burn down the Banana Stand because I was like, I don't want there to be any standing sets because people will then expect there to be certain standing sets.

Well, there's always money in the Banana Stand It turned out there was always money in the Banana Stand. Was that also slightly Freudian, in that you wanted to burn down the Chip Yard [the cookie business that Hurwitz and his brother started up as teenagers that bears noted similarities to the Banana Stand]?

It's so funny to hear you say Chip Yard! Oh God, I used to pray that the Chip Yard would burn down. I was 13 and my brother was 15 and we had this little family business and it was just like Arrested in a way because no one then was just selling cookies, especially in a beach community where it was all ice-cream and popcorn.

I remember people screaming at me: "You can't do that! I'm going to burn your fucking Chip Yard to the ground! My father pushed us to do the Chip Yard to show us how hard it is to make a buck, but it wasn't difficult with the Chip Yard as it immediately started making money.

So he was like: "This money is going into a college fund. So I really liked this idea of some kid sweating in a stand while kids outside are laughing on the beach. Speaking of working within constraints, you had to work with each actor separately as their schedules were so packed. In an ideal world, how would you have preferred to do the fourth series? I actually would have preferred to do the movie. What happened was, by the time I sat down to do the movie, a lot of years had passed and I had a lot of story and so I sat down with Ron Howard.

But we could barely get anyone to let us do this movie, it was very hard to get anyone interested in it. The prevailing belief was, the show was cancelled, why would you do a movie? But I had this anecdotal evidence that people were watching the show, but it was totally anecdotal — and of course I'd think people were watching the show. Even Ron Howard couldn't get someone to greenlight a movie?

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