Interview:
Did the concept of FK begin with the pilot?
Then about two years later, New World approached me and said, "hey would you be interested in doing a syndicated version of that show? Not syndicated, but late night, CBS late night. " The programming people had always liked it and wanted it for Crimetime after Primetime so we said sure. We knew we would have to shoot it in Toronto and do it primarily in Canada.
I took the pilot, and we were trying to figure out how to make it. The original pilot for CBS had no flashbacks, I was trying to figure out a way to make it work because there was a great disparity in air times between the Canadian air times and the US airtimes. In Canada, they wanted 48 minutes and in America, they wanted 42. There was a six minutes time difference. How are we going to do that and not hurt the show? So, I said, "you know what we'll do, we'll do flashbacks, and we'll just cut the flashbacks out of the American version."
What happened, though, was we saw it with flashbacks and said. "No this is our favorite part," so we obviously kept it. They were an integral part of the series. I added the flashbacks to it. All the changes were stuff that I brought into it because I did not produce the pilot movie. Even though I wrote the original Nick Knight, I was going off to do a movie and I did not have the time. I could not be involved with it. So I gave them the script, and walked away.
