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"The pickup really did take me by surprise," he admitted. "I had been told that we shouldn’t expect any news about pickup until at least a month after the show started. So, when I heard over the [first] weekend that it was doing very well, and then when the sort of official numbers get released, you’re like, “Oh, my God.'" He continued, saying, "But I still thought that they were going to make us wait a little while. But literally, we got the call the next morning. I wanted to take the week to think about it, and the first call about the production and where will we film and the potential schedule, that preliminary call is going to happen in about an hour and a half."