us,raded e-mails, all of saying that we were within -- we are in withdrawal and it was hard to walk away from the show and it was hard how it ended. charlie rose: does it have to end? it is like a 10 act play. the thing with a series, you have to keep everything in tact and all of the balls in the air. you cannot have anything big happen, because you cannot take it back. alevision has a thing like vacuum cleaner salesman, where they make a mess on the floor and they have to clean it up. they want you to watch it next week, for ever. the idea is to write something that takes a piece out of you and leaves you a little broken and you wonder how they keep doing it. we don't have to. i didn't have to make more than three. >> what is the level of satisfaction, compared to the other things you do? can you even judge it? >> and felt real to me and it was gratifying. charlie rose: a new direction. >> you learn a thing you have never done and do it well. i had never done a show like this. none of us had. it was closer to saturday night live, versus a sitcom. we would shoot it on wednesday and thur