120 Quotes by Nina Tassler

I?m part Latin, so everything in the Latin culture is ? there?s a lot of hyperbole and there?s a lot of melodrama. I think we?re going to modify it for our audiences.

In each episode, there is a significant dramatic event. You also have at the core of a lot of these stories a big, sexy, juicy love story.

Clearly there is something in the zeitgeist ,

I don't think anybody really knows where we're headed. But it is imperative that we make our content available to audiences where they are and when they want to watch it. Their habits are changing, and we have to be there when they want to see our hit shows.

Comedy was really our first priority heading into development season, and we wanted to reinforce Monday. And with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jenna Elfman, we have two big star vehicles for mid-season.

Rob Doherty has been a real superstar for us The Mentalist for years. He is an extremely talented writer, and he just tapped into the DNA of this character in a way that we'd not heard before. So, from the moment it walked in the door, and then we read the script, it was a definite player for us.

So many of the great detectives that we see on television now owe their origins to Sherlock Holmes. What was very exciting about Rob's pitch and script was that he is a real Holmes-ian expert. He knew all of the mythology. He was very well-versed in the genesis of Holmes and the stories. And the twist with Watson is something we jumped at immediately. It's a very forward-thinking way of doing the show.

We're big fans of the show on BBC, and some of the greatest actors in film and television have done this character, from Basil Rathbone to Nicol Williamson to Michael Caine. (Executive producer) Rob Doherty came in with the pitch last season, it was immediately a show that we gravitated towards.

Well, when you have an opportunity to build a show around one of the greatest detectives in all of literature, you're going to jump at that opportunity.