The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are.
My solo shows require a sit-down, indoor space.
I'm doing the kind of show that I would want to see.
American Idols that come off the show and don't have a hit song - that makes it tough. If you come off the show and the song isn't big, and it takes a couple months to get your single out there - that time could be damaging.
It's tricky to do a serialized show and not lose viewers along the way because you really have to watch every episode.
For my shows, I don't play too many slow songs.
I can't do a one-camera show. I don't know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line.
I think NBC got a little reluctant to get behind single-camera shows after 'Scrubs' didn't do what they thought it was going to do following 'Friends.'
I had a short run as the presenter of 'Cash in the Attic'. It's a very popular show but didn't really suit me.
It would be a bloody tough call to do 'Top Gear' without Jeremy. That would be a bit of a daft idea.
I think - no, I'm sure - 'Coast to Coast' wouldn't work with a daytime audience.
I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline.
I'd like to do more TV; TV is completely different than working in movies in a lot of ways, it's like making a really compact movie. Because you don't have as much time, especially hour long shows, they move so quickly.
I know that my job is to perform, it wouldn't be a very interesting show if I just came out one day and said, "I'm going to sit here in a ball and rock back and forth. And won't you join me for a half hour of sadness."
Obviously, a lot of TV shows are based on chronological episode viewing, and the stories are contingent upon watching it in order. Syndicated shows, you don't have to watch in order. You're just watching characters that don't change that much.
I usually just pick a genre of movie that I feel like saluting and then go off and come up with something that I can sort of pay homage to. That's the great thing about our show is we've sort of created a landscape for 'Psych' where we're kind of allowed to go off and give shout-outs to movies that we love, genres that we love.
I'd love to do a talk show. But I'm too busy for it. It's just too much work.
'Atlanta' changes genres a lot per episode.
Everything I ask is a question from Tamron, like it or not. My team does not write my questions. We put together a segment. We talk about the elements that I want, but we have a conversation for that hour with our guests.
I've actually taken meetings about hosting a late-night talk show. I don't know that what we know as a late-night talk show is what I want. But I've been talked into a talk show, but it would be different.
There's certainly pressure to find your audience early. You need to paint the picture, but it's tough trying to find the balance between a show that people can tune in on any given week while still grabbing the people who are there every week.
I thought late-night was crowded... the format's repetitive.
I don't want to do just a liberal show.
[Townies] was a huge cast. It was a bit ungainly, I think with 12 regular characters they had to keep writing for.
I've been a hip hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.
