You don't have the economy of scale of building a set once and casting once. You blow up the world, basically, at the end of each episode.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.

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

You don't have the economy of scale of building a set once and casting once. You blow up the world, basically, at the end of each episode.

I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come out with a stone-cold conversation-killer like, "This room's quite rectangular, isn't it?" I glide through the social whirl with all the elegance of a dog in high heels