Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

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