Peter Roth

It was thrilling if you were on top.

It was an extraordinary thing to get a phone call at 7 a.m. from the president of Warner Brothers, Peter Roth, going, did you see these numbers? And the numbers equaled, I would assume, profit, both to the network and to the production company.

Of course.

And you introduce a new character on an episode, and then you get immediate feedback the next day.

And he was tasked with some kind of multiverse hero's journey.

And I, uh, I had lunch one day with the president of Warner Brothers television, Peter Roth.

And I said, I have an idea for a spinoff of the big bang theory.

And he was like, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me.

There are a lot of things you could do with something like that.

I don't know that I, I think I have probably after many attempts not to do it, probably come around to more of the CW Warner Brothers view, which was like the Peter Roth, Mark Pedowitz view, which was like the show really is Jared and Jensen.

Yeah, it really is.

Right.

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if the studio and Peter Roth and, you know, they had, uh, you know, really, I guess Peter, but, like, you know, if he would, would've come to me and, you know...

It, it was all a respect thing.

I felt like at that point-