Well, you can, sir, gauge the success of a program, because you look at it. You do full mock-ups. You run the show and you look at it and you say that this show is not different enough, not unique enough, and we are not ready to put the money in to go the next step. You have to do things in stages, and you conclude in analysis, in looking at it, that you don't have a product that's going to work. That's why many shows don't even make it to air, let alone reach success--because in doing the shows in development, you begin to realize they're not coming together.
On September 27th, 2006. See this statement in context.