Daily Inspiration Quote by Gregory Harrison

Network television logic has always been a little naked, but Harrison’s quote is refreshingly unvarnished about it: your show isn’t being positioned as a story, it’s being positioned as a demographic. “7th Heaven is quite a hit for them now” isn’t praise so much as a data point, the kind that turns creative ambition into a programming strategy. The “them” is telling, too. It’s not “we” in the sense of artists making something; it’s “them” as in the network’s machinery, chasing a proven audience the way studios chase a proven IP.

The subtext is both practical and faintly resigned. Harrison’s “hoping to appeal” carries the shrug of someone who knows the real pitch happens in boardrooms and ad-sales meetings, not rehearsal rooms. He’s not romanticizing television; he’s translating it. That translation comes with a small but revealing adjustment: “skewed slightly older I guess.” The “I guess” reads like an actor acknowledging the arbitrariness of these slices of human life - older not because the themes are deeper, but because the show lands at 9:00 instead of earlier.

Context matters: 7th Heaven was emblematic of a family-friendly wave that networks could monetize reliably, especially in an era when “appointment viewing” still mattered. Harrison is describing a system where the time slot is part of the script. The hour dictates the presumed maturity, the advertisers, even the permissible edge. It’s a candid glimpse of TV as cultural product and scheduling product at the same time.