It would be certainly arrogant of me to claim that the show was not a good show without myself at the centre.

I'm certainly not offended by it aesthetically, particularly for a good cause,

I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character to look like, and because it's going to lead into the next year, I knew that it was going to have to be established somewhere in the show.

There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over.

With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable.

He was just such a good person. Not cocky and arrogant, but just a great athlete. I think all the kids are going to terribly miss him.