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I believe what makes great television is wanting to watch particular characters.

Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television.

There are great characters on television.

Remember that the fans want to hear inside stuff about the series; they don't want to hear gripes and grouses about your personal life. What they really want to hear is how the series gets made, and how you interact with your fellow cast members.

One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.

Watching TV is companionable: you share an experience, you can comment on the action here and there for a bit of conversation... it's a way of showing someone that you want his or her company and engaging in a low-key, pleasant, undemanding way.

Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.

I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans.

One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.

TV is the place that writers want to be.