"We're making a movie every week." Do TV people actually believe that? As the list below proves, they've been trotting this old chestnut out for so many years it's a wonder they can say it now without requiring an emergency tongue-in-cheek-ectomy. Let's face it – if making a TV show was like making a movie, all TV drama would be about 10 minutes long. That's about how much footage your average movie gets shot in a week. Unless they mean, "It’s like making a cheap, indie movie with no budget" every week. But you can't envisage Stargate getting shown at the Sundance festival.
"Man, we make a movie every week." Milo Ventimiglia on Heroes, 2008
"So I always just applied that mindset, which is that I’m making a movie every week, you know?" Anthony Michael Hall on The Dead Zone, 2008
"We shoot it like a movie – it’s like we are doing a full length feature film every day." Hayden Panettiere on Heroes, 2007
"It was like working on a feature film every week, which just doesn't happen in television.*" Composer Greg Edmonson on Firefly, 2004
"I feel like we make a movie every week." Sarah Michelle Gellar on Buffy, 2002
"We're making a feature film every week." Gillian Anderson on The X-Files, 1997
"It's like doing a feature film every week on a television budget." Producer Jonathan Glassner on Stargate SG-1, 1998
"Doing Voyager is like doing a feature film every week." Robert Duncan McNeill on Star Trek: Voyager, 1997
"We're effectively making a feature film every week." Producer AL Katz on Tales From The Crypt, 1996
* You try telling that to the rest of this lot, Greg
Feel free to provide your own examples…
