The Hollywood Reporter: FX credited Game of Thrones for showing that a fantasy drama could work at 10 p.m. Why is the slot important for the genre?
George R.R. Martin: Fantasy is the oldest form of literature -- it goes back to Gilgamesh and Homer. People like that were writing fantasy thousands of years ago. Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre. They would not make a sophisticated adult fantasy and it was really fighting. Even when they did, Beauty and the Beast, which was a show I was on back in the 1980s, we were trying to do Beauty and the Beast as a sophisticated adult drama but they put it on in the 8 o'clock time slot.
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