But that was not always the case for theGleeandAmerican Horror Storycreator.
It was a complete satire using the unit of cheerleaders to really look at female ambition, he says.
Why dont we try this as a TV show?
Credit: Randy Tepper/The WB
And I went around and I pitched it.
The four networks wanted it.
And I ended up going with The WB.
He admits: They never got me and they kept trying to turn me into something else.
And they were very homophobic even though they would have gay characters on the air.
Like, it was very relentlessly homophobic.
It was rough and I didnt have a good experience with the studio and everybody.
But he admits, like many things in his career,Popularwas another lesson.
And in the second year it was like us andRoswelland they thought it could be a hit.
So I remember getting notes, like, Can this character get cancer?
Im like, OK.
