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'Wonder Showzen' is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn't know comedy could do that. It redefined what I thought you could do with a TV show.

I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.

There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.

I got asked to do loads of TV series, all sorts of things that weren't me.

I played comedies and dramas.

It's interesting: I went 25 years without watching a single television show. I was one of those people, because I was so inside how a television show was made, if I would turn on somebody else's show, I would sit there and analyze it, like, 'Oh, so they had four hours in this location and had to get out and the number of set-ups, etc.'

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

It wasn't until I got involved in 'Doctor Who' that I started doing dramas on television.

I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.