Phil Rosenthal

I wouldn't push them on people if they weren't great.

They happen to be great.

My brother Richard was already a qualified producer of things.

So when I had this opportunity to do the food and travel show, I naturally called him for two reasons.

He knew how to do this, and I love him, and I wanted to be with him.

If I could choose someone, why not?

Monica was not someone I thought of for the role.

I wasn't going to play nepotism with this TV show that was bigger than me.

Someone else in the writer's room suggested her for the first guest star role that she had in the first season as Robert's girlfriend, right?

Well, let's, yeah, she is great.

That's what attracted me to her in the first place.

I saw her in your play and she was fantastic.

And then we did a play together and we fell in love.

But I wasn't going to impose her.

I wasn't going to be that guy who puts his wife in the show.

Let somebody else say it.

And then let's see how she does in a small guest role.

Well, she scored.

Now everyone else is saying, don't you know the president of the network?

It was seasons later.