[Townies] was a huge cast. It was a bit ungainly, I think with 12 regular characters they had to keep writing for.

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.

I'd done a pilot [of Townies] with Caroline Rhea [Pride & Joy] that didn't go anywhere.

I was working with David Warner and John Rhys-Davies, who is from the Indiana Jones movies.He's a very strong, strong presence, and so I had to assert myself.

I think because the show ["Grant MacLaren"] is essentially a hopeful show. The show says that as bleak as the future is, the one thing that mankind developed was the ability to send their consciousness back and where a lot of the institutions of modern life have fallen apart.

Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, Hey, come see my play, hed say, Sure. Hed see one, Oh, good play - you know, very typical dad reaction.

In the '97 pilot season [of Will & Grace ], I got the male lead on The Jenny McCarthy Show.