There was actually a script developed called 'St. Mark's Place,' and it was pretty good, ultimately, MTV just wasn't ready to do scripted programming and bear the cost of scripted programming. Jonathan Murray More Quotes by Jonathan Murray More Quotes From Jonathan Murray I think what the real power of the series was, particularly in those early years, is that we brought people on to the television screen who had been ignored by television, you didn't regularly see LGBT people, and there was very little representation of black people or Latino people. Jonathan Murray top-news For a lot of people, that was the first person with AIDS they ever met. Suddenly, there was a face on this disease, the fact that he was working so hard to try and educate other young people about the need to protect themselves from AIDS, it was just a powerful story. Jonathan Murray top-news