I believe you've just been promoted. What will that mean to your work?

It�s probably less a promotion and more a deal with the studio.

20th Century Fox produces Angel, and the way shows work is, they�ll hire you onto a series and they�ll have an option on you for a certain amount of years. I think this season coming up would have been the end of their option on me, they had a two-year option on me from when they originally hired me.

So what they do with writers that they�ll sign them to an overall deal which pretty much sews them up for whatever show they�re on, to make sure that the studio has them after their initial options have expired. And it also allows the writer to work with the studio in developing new things.

That�s pretty much what�s happened with me and Fox. So if something were to happen to Angel, which it won�t, they would still own me and they could put me on, you know, Judging Amy [a mainstream family drama] or something.