Phil Rosenthal

But there's still, even with the phone, with the TV, with the biggest screen IMAX in the world showing you Venice, Italy, you haven't seen it until you're there.

After Raymond was over, I thought my job in life was to create more sitcoms.

And I didn't realize that a business changed in the nine years since we were doing Raymond and they only wanted cool shows, hip and edgy shows.

My agents told me,

Be more hip and edgy.

And I said, well, you got the right guy.

I'm Mr. Hip and Edgy.

And so I struck out for a couple of years, even writing with younger people.

They just didn't want that sensibility.

They didn't even want the four-camera sitcom anymore, which was filmed in front of a live audience, which I thought was great.

Having come from theater, it combined the best aspects of theater with film.

It's this perfect blend of the two.

So I'm struggling again for years, as if I never did anything before.

And then I thought of this dream I had of travel.

And I thought, what if I could get people to travel by showing them the best places in the world to eat?

Well, it wasn't as if because I had the success from Raymond that I could do whatever I wanted.

It afforded me the ability to try for it because I didn't need the paycheck.

But it took 10 years.

That long, huh?

After the success of Raymond, before I was on PBS, and that was the first place that would take me.