Subject: Re: Why Twin Peaks was put on Hiatus
From: tok@stiatl.salestech.com (Terry Kane)
Date: 1991-02-20, 10:28
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

michaell@cat55.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Lee) writes:
> >as Twin Peaks just can't.  If you just have the "bizzare" plots, there isn't
> >experiment is that rather then just targeting open-ended series, or one week
> >mini-series, there could be a very good market for a "Maxi-Series" -- a weekly
> >show, a la Twin Peaks, but something that is to end, very definitely, when the
> >story line is completed.

I believe that a good example of this, (yes - it *has* been done) was
_The_Prisoner_.  I don't remember how successful this was as a commercial
venture since I was a boy of 13 when it came out.

But - it has had staying power!