Shawn Ryan
Shawn Ryan
Shawn Ryanis an American screenwriter and television producer best known as the creator and showrunner of the television series The Shieldand The Chicago Code. Ryan also co-created the ABC series Last Resort, and produced The Unit, Lie to Me, Terriersand Mad Dogs...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth11 October 1966
CityRockford, IL
CountryUnited States of America
problem back-and-forth no-problem
I have no problem at all going back and forth between cable and network.
watches made shows
Working as a showrunner has made it tougher to watch other shows and movies.
tv-shows want tvs
There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually.
ends worst shows
The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.
book responsibility feel-good
Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the book satisfied. And if you strike out on the finale it skews how you feel about the entire series.
running stars tv-shows
One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways.
practice different embrace
Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going to allow.
team thinking years
I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of times, I think the best work that my team has come up with comes from having to deal with certain boundaries.
art new-york kids
I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who grew up in the Midwest where there weren't any art films, and I watched TV. And that was really the medium that affected me and that I fell in love with.
people needs watches
You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.
cheer fall character
Cheers was one of the first shows where I paid attention to the writers because their [work] was better than everything else I was watching. The writers weren't afraid to let a joke fall slightly flat if it advanced the characters.
sin payment delayed
The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.
pressure economic episodes
There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.
book historical
I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.