I needed other people in the newsroom for Kolchak to interact with, ... relationships that were going to drive these stories.

Yet I think nostalgia of any kind is a double-edged sword. When people see a TV show title from their youth, they're looking for a piece of that old experience to come back, and the truth is, they'll never recapture it.

There's been a declining audience for network TV for a while, People have their own libraries of things they specifically want to see, which competes for TV viewing time. More options is good news for the consumer but bad news for the networks, who are responsible for the most expensive hours of TV produced. It'll be harder and harder to maintain an audience that justifies that business model.

People love to be scared because it's a cathartic experience, because you get to experience all those emotions, all























































































































those fears you have ... and a hero or heroes take you through it, they make sense of it, and they emerge victorious at the end of the hour. By the end of the hour, you feel better and you feel safer.

I believe people love to be scared because it's a cathartic experience, because you get to experience all those emotions, all those fears you have, whether somebody shows them on TV or not. And a hero, or heroes, take you through it, they make sense of it, and they emerge victorious at the end of the hour. And by the end of that hour, you feel better and you feel safer. I really believe that. I don't think the way to deal with fears is not to dramatize them.

People love to be scared because it's a cathartic experience, because you get to experience all those emotions, all those fears you have ... and a hero or heroes take you through it, they make sense of it, and they emerge victorious at the end of the hour. By the end of the hour, you feel better and you feel safer.