Often the ideas in the show start out as ideas that make you laugh - outrageous "what if" ideas. I wanted an outlet for doing those.

Technology isn't the villain and the people aren't often really the villain so much as they're weak.

In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill.

Our four-year-old, like a lot of kids, you introduce him to an iPad and he quite quickly gets drawn in in a way that you're like, "Wow, I've got to stage an intervention here." He picked up on gaming terminology really quickly. If you say, "Keep practicing holding a pencil and see if you can draw a letter, the alphabet," he understands that if you do that you've unlocked Level Two.

My kids are very young. I'm sure there's a world of horror for me to worry about as they get older.

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.