Welcome to the Television Academy Foundations, the Interviews podcast. In a segment we're calling Golden Nuggets, we share bite-sized stories from the archive that didn't quite make it into a full episode. Before serving as Chairman and CEO of the Television Academy, production designer John Schaffner built a career creating some of television's most recognizable sets from the apartments of …
You looked at him, you know, you looked at him as four older women being together down there. The pilot did have a gay guy that worked for them as sort of a butler that they took out after that just didn't test well. But they had gigantic appeal. In 1849 audience, that was always way up there. It wasn't …
door. Later on, we had a lot of young writers on the show and we have talked to them over the years and they all say, we had no idea how good we have in terms of who we had doing our stuff and you and Paul and Susan there to back us up and to fight our battles and …