For what it's worth, pretty much every show has to have a "box" show once per season to save money. Mind, most shows don't actually build an entirely new box to have it in -- they just use the main set -- but I can only remember one show EVER that was a main set box show for Doctor Who, and they wound up building a basement cloister for the Tardis to do that. In any event, for this show, all they would have had to build would be the alley and the car. They could use the pre-existing bits of New New York from previous shows -- for that matter, I'm pretty sure the alley set was likely around from some show or another.
I've found the Confidentials to be really ... annoying, for some reason. Or, no, not for some reason, but because more often than not, a 10-20 minute show would really do it. I mean, the DeClassifieds, if they did a bit more of the "how we did this" instead of "how the actors felt about how we did this", would be almost perfect. The Confidentials are both overlong and smug.
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on 2007-07-21 09:47 pm (UTC)I've found the Confidentials to be really ... annoying, for some reason. Or, no, not for some reason, but because more often than not, a 10-20 minute show would really do it. I mean, the DeClassifieds, if they did a bit more of the "how we did this" instead of "how the actors felt about how we did this", would be almost perfect. The Confidentials are both overlong and smug.