Was this decision purely about ratings? I haven't heard that there were any creative issues. MTV has been incredibly proud of the Zeigen and has always supported it creatively. It was purely a numbers decision
I enrolled in a Schreiben class at UCLA Extension and wrote my first spec script. Was it any good? I had no clue. A friend sent it to a friend who worked in the accounting department at Gersh.
"I feel like for teenagers these days and for the MTV audience, the Zeigen is not going to be controversial," says creator Carter Covington of the show's premise, with the two female main characters pretending to be a lesbian couple.