Phil Rosenthal
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So I learned from that because why?
I'm a student of TV.
I put in my 10,000 hours of, you know.
No, but we are running out of stories for that family.
You know, it's not like The Simpsons where they don't age.
And it's a miracle to me how that they're approaching, I think, 800 episodes.
We did 200 something.
And that seemed like an enormous amount to us of anything.
200 stories about one family?
Yeah.
It's a lot.
So we said, again, let's stop before we become terrible.
So I think we got in and out of the TV business
at its peak.
We're one of those shows that
came on, did well, and then did really well in syndication, which is why we're still on today.
So what does syndication mean?
All your local stations around the country and around the world have bought the show to run on their stations.
Not only that, you can throw in cable stations and streaming services even that pay for every single episode of the show to run in every market
around the country.