charles: vince, urban legend that john cusack and matthew broderick turned down roles of walter whitet with those gentlemen directly. the thing typically with a tv series or a movie, you have somebody generates a wish-list of actors, and i got to tell you though, for me there was only one guy on my wish-list from day one. the guy i actually wrote the thing for, that was bryan cranston. i was fortunate to have worked with him for years before. so that was the only guy i had. charles: you guys worked on "x-files" together. that's where you saw his brilliance, isn't it? >> absolutely. this was a guy, he walked in. he auditioned for the part. i didn't know him from adam. he just nailed it this was an episode which he played a really scary, nasty repellant guy. yet, you had to feel bad for him at the end. i find out year-and-a-half later he does "malcolm in the middle." my god, i didn't know the guy could be funny. >> let's talk about the future here. you know, broadcast television, you know, you talked about the idea thaw guys make on the cable side, that there are fewer episode so you ca