When there are 100 HD channels to choose from, just being in HD won't be a big deal. By 2010, or maybe before, our channels have to stand on their own for their editorial merit. But we are fully up to that task.

It's really fun to work with these people. They have a strong can-do attitude. When they have momentum behind them, watch out.

HD is about enhancing your sense of experience.

I was a mod when I was a kid. I'd be in Italian pencil-leg trousers with those bowling shoes you wear outside and a Fred Perry polo shirt with a V-neck sweater. It was like an Essex uniform - a very specific look.

Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.

I'm not a very violent dude, and if something can be settled without any physicality, I'm always in favor of that. But if somebody comes near my kids, the atavistic crazy lion comes out.