Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the '50s, along with Cathy Callahan.
I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.
Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.
The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.
What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.
A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.