You’d never know it from the puzzlingly different reports from different news orgs, but it turns out that our “Madoff” miniseries kicked some serious ass on its last night.

As this is my first venture into TV, I’m learning a few things; namely that the news gets reported based on the news organ’s opinion of the show. Variety, for instance, thinks we came in last–and, surprise, gave us a medium poor review.

All things said, I’m delighted with the reception and glad ABC–who put an enormous amount of trust into me and my work–seems to be happy as well.