No. We are going to do 18 shows this year. We tell them the stories we want to break out. They workshop ideas and then they allocate who will write which script.
In the Murdoch case, we've had three different head writers who have all done a good job, because the show is still on the air.
There are other cases in which we go to a writer. For example, we do a show called Slasher. That's a horror genre. We met over coffee with a showrunner creator we really liked. I asked him what he would really like to do. He was doing family viewing shows. He said he wanted to do a horror genre, like I Know What You Did Last Summer. We have an arrangement with him: we optioned the rights and hired him to do the job. We share revenues with him on a very favourable split, because we recognize that it was his passion and his idea.
Everything changes; there's no one size fits all.