I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.

I realised that a television show on political lampoon was one genre that was missing.