Love Quote by Aaron Spelling

Spelling is selling a quiet revolution in prime time: the idea that marriage can be aspirational television instead of the narrative graveyard where desire goes to die. In one breath he names the old rulebook, the one that treated married couples as either antiseptic roommates or bickering punchlines, and he flips it. Not by preaching, but by describing a vibe: honeymoon energy as a daily practice, sensuality as normal, fun as a marital language.

The intent is partly creative, partly commercial. A producer’s eye is always on what’s missing in the market. Spelling frames the absence of affectionate, erotic, happily married couples as a gap in the medium itself, implying he can deliver something audiences want but rarely get: intimacy without shame, commitment without punishment. The subtext is that TV had long been comfortable with romance as chase, not as maintenance. Once the characters “win” each other, the story traditionally needs a new engine: infidelity, resentment, or the slow sitcom rot of jokes about how unbearable your spouse is. Spelling is arguing for a different engine: pleasure, teamwork, and touch.

Context matters: post-network-era standards had historically policed sexuality and domesticated marriage into blandness. By the time Spelling is speaking, TV is loosening up, but the cultural suspicion remains that stability is boring. His line pushes back on that cynicism. He’s not claiming marriage is easy; he’s insisting it’s televisual, dramatic in its own right, if you let joy and desire count as plot.