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"Tim Kring has claimed that the short length of The Walking Dead helped it attract a mass audience. The creator of Heroes suggested to Metro that people may start to prefer shows that require less of a commitment of time. Kring said: &amp;quot;There are so many different things to watch that to invest in a show that asks a million questions and doesn&amp;#039;t deliver many answers for an extended period of time is a lot to ask for. &amp;quot;A zombie series called The Walking Dead just launched here, which was a huge success because it was good quality - but also because it was only six episodes long. &amp;quot;People knew it wasn&amp;#039;t a huge time commitment. It gave it more of a sense of an event rather than a series that would go on for years and years.&amp;quot; Of changing expectations of genre shows, he added: &amp;quot;The TV screen on your wall has a $200 million movie on one channel and a $2 million episode of a show on the next - so the pressure is on the $2 million episode to excel at what it does. &amp;quot;With Heroes we put a tremendous amount in one episode and raised the bar for what came afterwards. It becomes hard to blow people away week after week. &amp;quot;We hinged on, &amp;#039;I didn&amp;#039;t see that coming&amp;#039;, moments but after a while audiences see those things happening. We had a rocky road with the writers&amp;#039; strike. Coming back after ten months off the air on a serialised show is hard.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Q&amp;amp;A: Tim Kring talks &amp;#039;Heroes&amp;#039; axe "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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