KLPNO
Senior Member
- Joined
- Oct 19, 2007
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- Russian
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- Russian Federation
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- Russian Federation
Hello everyone,
From the book Friends forever:
The show wasn’t a hard sell. In a 2019 interview, Kauffman said, “We had competing offers, but [NBC] gobbled it up. The only change they wanted us to make was they wanted us to add an older character in the coffeehouse, who we jokingly used to call Pat the Cop. But we explained that we thought the show worked with just young people, and that if the stories were universal, the show would be watched and people would feel things for it, even if they weren’t twenty years old. It certainly worked out that way.”
I'm not sure what "if the stories were universal" means in the cotext above.
Does "universal" imply uniform, i.e. if all characters in the show were more or less of the same age?
Thank you.
From the book Friends forever:
The show wasn’t a hard sell. In a 2019 interview, Kauffman said, “We had competing offers, but [NBC] gobbled it up. The only change they wanted us to make was they wanted us to add an older character in the coffeehouse, who we jokingly used to call Pat the Cop. But we explained that we thought the show worked with just young people, and that if the stories were universal, the show would be watched and people would feel things for it, even if they weren’t twenty years old. It certainly worked out that way.”
I'm not sure what "if the stories were universal" means in the cotext above.
Does "universal" imply uniform, i.e. if all characters in the show were more or less of the same age?
Thank you.