I’m not going to fool anyone by saying ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ isn’t entertaining, but I hope it offers more than that. Even if I get just ten people off their sofa and into the kitchen after watching the show, that’s better than no one at all.
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I’d love to revisit “The Office.”
This guy is in my DNA. I have cousins who are really not that different from Dwight Schrute.
I’ve always seen “Survivor” as a reflection of our culture. That is a big part of what has kept me so wildly enthusiastic for 22 years. The game is the MacGuffin. It provides a framework that forces behavior from the players. That human behavior is what we’re after.
The “Survivor” editing teams are regarded as the best in the unscripted world. And I don’t in any way mean this as a slight to any other show. There are some insanely talented people making some wonderful shows! We’re just very fortunate to have an extremely experienced and talented team of storytellers who have been […]
We work really hard to deliver a big, prime-time adventure show but with stories that often turn on tiny moments of human behavior. So, for all the talk of game design and twists and advantages, “Survivor” lives and dies with the people we put on the show.
There was a period that I was very, very frustrated by being pigeonholed in this one genre, this one idea. I got “Friends” when I was 27 but I had done all this work on stage. But all that was just eradicated. As far as the public was concerned, I came out of the womb […]
“The Orville” is the most fun writing job I can remember in my career.
I think people get frustrated by what they see as a lack of justice in this country, and sometimes watching my show gives them the opportunity to see justice in action.
The question of what justice means depends on the audience witnessing the process. It could be the litigants, or the people watching courtroom television (for whom it may be entertainment). When we talk about the litigants, there’s rarely grey areas in a case, it’s black or white.
