Weekly Series Quotes

I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.

Tune in next week, same Stone Cold time, same Stone Cold Channel!

I'm really proud of Gunsmoke. We put on a good show every week - one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.

I tried my hand at writing, I tried to write out a little script - and it's not too bad. Mostly, though, it let me understand how incredibly difficult that job is. I can't even imagine doing it on a weekly basis for a series in any way. That's tough. I think I'll try to leave that to smarter people than me.

To me, there's still nothing more thrilling than, every week, people getting to see another chapter in this story that you're telling.

I didn't watch much television growing up, and before I did 'Boston Legal,' I had no understanding of what it was like for a viewer to look forward to finding out what was going to happen the next week.

I think that that is a wonderful format - you know, having individual stories over a period of weeks that are thematically connected in terms of genre - there's not enough of that out there.

Working in TV, we're in people's living rooms, and everyone has a different relationship to it than with movies. You're there every week; they feel like they know you. They call you by name, and it trips you up.

I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.