Every year, the Friday before the new Saturday-morning shows would premiere, the networks would do this big preview special, and I was always glued to the TV. As horrible as they were, they were entertaining at the time. There was a lot of showmanship from the networks based around the new lineup.

You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.

I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.

I have a car that I like - an Aston Martin - for Sunday drives in the country.

The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.

Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.

'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.