text: Hoping to revive the taste for surreal television , ABC hired Twin Peaks creator David Lynch to pilot a noirish program called Mulholland Drive . After insisting that the director cut down on cigarette-smoking characters and shots of dog poop , the risk-averse network ditched the series and filled its time slot with another Friends clone .
  
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  The network was not a fan of David Lynch 's unconventional shooting styles .