Give us some background about how you started out

I started as a writer on MTV�s Undressed. I don�t know if that plays in England, but it�s basically a half hour sex comedy produced by Roland Joffe.

I was on four seasons of that. It�s basically about how fast can you get young attractive people to take their clothes off. I got pretty good at getting them undressed very fast.

I actually wrote a spec for Buffy to see if I could get a slightly better TV job where people weren�t taking their clothes off every five minutes, and it ended up over at Joss�s company, Mutant Enemy. They read it and I came in - originally - to talk about working for the animated Buffy show.

They liked it, Joss read it and [he] liked it and invited me in for an interview. We sat around just chewing the fat for half an hour and at the end he said, "I know you came to talk about the animated show, but how would you feel doing a freelance episode of the live action show?" I said "Hell, yeah of course, I would love to".