Ted Danson views the lack of a live audience in modern filming as a significant loss of energy and adrenaline compared to the experience of a live broadcast.

“The energy you get from the audience is something you can't duplicate when they're gone”

He claims that Cheers was a pioneer in using a sequential, chronological narrative structure where episodes were connected rather than standalone.

“up until that time everybody thought you have to have a show show that every week they can tune in and it's starting from Ground Zero you can't can't assume that they've seen shows before that they have to stand alone and we sort of said why not let's let's try it out uh and it worked out and now of”