so i'm doing my version of cynthia nixon's trick. but not having to race in a cab across town. >> since you have done this for quite some time we all still love you in the "the west wing" reruns. not even reruns. what is your sense of television. one of the things you are on the paid cable. the other is network. but from your perspective, is tv getting better or worse? you have been on tv for a while. >> gosh, i feel like in some ways so much about television that i hate. i really don't -- i'm not a fan of the reality shows and i think for me that started with "the west wing" and we start -- our ratings started going down when we were opposite the bachelor. and i was just incensed that how could people watch -- how is that the same audience. yeah i thought it was rubber necking it. i was embarrassed. i said surely that part with saturate and be gone. >> you couldn't have been more wrong. >> i could not have been more wrong. and i -- you know, there's room for everyone i suppose. but in some ways i feel like it takes away from the wri