‘There Has to Be Meat on the Bone’ to Create Long-Running Series, Executive Producers Argue at Monte-Carlo: ‘Follow the Stories You Want to Dig Into’

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According to Variety’s source item, ‘There Has to Be Meat on the Bone’ to Create Long-Running Series, Executive Producers Argue at Monte-Carlo: ‘Follow the Stories You Want to Dig Into’, In order to create a long-running series, “there has to be meat on the bone,” “Vikings” creator Michael Hirst said Sundance at Monte-Carlo Television Festival.  “It has to be a whole world, rich enough to satisfy the requirements of your imagination, as Henry James used to say. The subject needs to be about real things, […]

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