TVGuide.com: Numbers always seems very intense, with a lot of locations and running around. Rob Morrow: Definitely, and I like that. We set the bar. I don't think the show was intended to be that, but we just got into the action side of it and decided to expand on it. The family scenes are great because they are almost like one-act plays, while the action scenes are just play. It's like being a kid playing cops and robbers.
TVGuide.com: With a bulletproof vest. Morrow: Totally! I love it. Half of the time when they say "Cut!" you just see me standing there with a big grin on my face.
TVGuide.com: Are there FBI people on set to help you? Morrow: Oh, yeah. We have great technical advisors from the FBI who are there any time we do anything procedural or action-wise. I went and did some training with them, which was really helpful.
TVGuide.com: Do you understand a word of the math jargon that comes out of costar David Krumholtz' mouth? Morrow: If you watch, in most of the scenes when they are talking about the math, you'll see me sitting there with kind of a quizzical look on my face saying, "Say that again?" "What was that?" "Put it in English." [Laughs] I kind of like physics and science, so I do know some of it, and some of the theories I've heard of, but I certainly don't know them well.
TVGuide.com: That's better than the average viewer.Morrow: It might be. It's funny, a lot of people come up to me and say things like, "We love the show! We have no idea what you are talking about, but we love it."
TVGuide.com: Do you think it is just the math that makes Numbers different from all of the other procedurals out there? Morrow: It's that and the family drama. I don't think any of them, except maybe Medium, really deal with a family dynamic. And we've only just skimmed the surface of where we hope to head with that. A lot of people tell me that their favorite scenes are the ones that end the show, with the family joking around or something. I think it puts it in perspective.
TVGuide.com: I especially enjoy the scenes between brothers Don and Charlie, who seem so comfortable together.Morrow: They are, and I love that. You know what is weird? I didn't know Krummy, as I call him, before, but I knew his work. So when I was deciding whether to do it, I was like, "OK, I'm doing it because I know he and I are going to groove." It is easy, and I'm always glad to come into a scene when it is just he and I because I know the egos aren't going to get in the way and we are going to have fun. He is kind of like the little brother I wish I had.
TVGuide.com: Are any of those scenes ad-libbed based on your friendship with him? Morrow: Yeah, we definitely ad-lib a fair amount.
TVGuide.com: Don seems very different from you on paper — he's single and alone, you are married and have a kid. Is it a weird juxtaposition going back and forth between real life and work? Morrow: It isn't weird, but it is interesting for me to think about. I'm definitely a family guy and I love being married and I love being a father and I'm not interested in putting my life at risk, but Don is a shadow side of me in certain regards. He is like the archetype hero, selfless, and he does what has to be done at the sacrifice of his own life. I grew up watching those kinds of characters in movies, so a part of me wishes I could be that. But the other side of it is the sacrifice and loneliness. Having read about and talked to a lot of people who do these kinds of jobs, I know that it is a huge burden. The idea of having a family is so frightening for them because they are never home. In a recent episode, Judd Hirsch is talking to me about relationships and says, "Why don't you ever have relationship that lasts?" I'm like, "You try coming home and when your wife asks, 'How was your day?' you say, 'Well, I saw a decapitated kid. How was yours?'" That burden to me is really interesting.
TVGuide.com: Don seems different from a lot of characters that you've played. Was that one of the reasons you took this role? Morrow: Definitely. Every time out — and I don't always necessarily succeed — I'm looking for something different. Especially when it comes to a series, I look to do something radically different.
TVGuide.com: It seems like the FBI is a big well for stories.Morrow: With crime dramas, it offers a lot of mileage. I had done a series right before this called Street Time, and that was a hard show. It had great potential but it was a hard show to "find the franchise," if you will, whereas Numbers was right out of the gate. We knew we could have a franchise as long as we could get the elements cohesive.
TVGuide.com: Having watched you on Northern Exposure, that was my initial reason for tuning in to Numbers. Do a lot of people still recognize you from that? Morrow: For sure. With DVDs, now, it is really on people's minds. I get recognized a lot for Numbers, but also a lot from Northern Exposure still.
TVGuide.com: Watching you play Fleischman, it would have seemed like you were a better fit for Numbers' Charlie. Morrow: I had the choice [of which role to take] and for that very reason I chose the other.
TVGuide.com: Emmy nods are coming out July 6. Are you nervous? Morrow: I don't know. Actors... when you do anything, you think and you hope and you think and you hope. I can't say I spend a lot of time thinking about it, but it is always nice and it is always flattering. Either way, I am good.
TVGuide.com: Numbers just won a Carl Sagan Award for public understanding of science. That sounds really cool. Morrow: One of the variables for me in deciding to do this show was that I love doing things that have the potential to edify. Not to be pedantic, because it is not an academic show at all. But kids come up to me and say they watch it, and their teachers tell them to watch it because of the math. The idea that it could be helpful... I love that.
TVGuide.com: Father's Day is this weekend. Got big plans? Morrow: My daughter, my wife and I are on vacation right now in this amazing place in the Bahamas. I don't know what they have planned, but I'm hoping to play golf. I played today, and I've confirmed my status as the worst to ever play the game.
TVGuide.com: Ever?!Morrow: Yeah. I've decided I really feel comfortable with that title because I think it gives me a little room to take the pressure off.
TVGuide.com: I've now got this vision of you, Judd and David all playing together.Morrow: It's funny. At the beginning of last season — and we're going to do it again this year — the whole cast and some of the producers went to Vegas for a "night of debauchery." The day after, Judd and I played, and Krummy came out way, way hung over. He left after like five holes.
TVGuide.com: Maybe you could get one of the math consultants to help you with the angles and such of golf.Morrow: Anything. I'll take anything! It is crazy how bad I am.
TVGuide.com: Any plans to come back to the theater? Morrow: God, I really need to do a play. I was offered a play on my break, but I couldn't make it work date-wise. I have this fantasy that I'll do Numbers for five, six, maybe seven years, and then I'll go back to New York and do five years' worth of plays. We'll see if that happens, but I'm hungry to do one. It has been a while.
TVGuide.com: Any chance you'll be back in the Numbers' director seat next season? Morrow: Yeah, I'll do one a year. I loved it, but it is completely and utterly consuming for five weeks.
TVGuide.com: Is there any chance for a little love for Don? Morrow: I think there is a chance for a lot with Michelle Nolden, who played my wife on Street Time, and appeared in two episodes this year.
TVGuide.com: She's the lawyer, Robin Brooks?Morrow: Yes. I think the plan is to explore that a little, among other ideas. We definitely will go into more depth in Don's personal life. There is a lot more going on there that just hasn't made it in.

TV Guide: You filmed the past two seasons of Dead Zone in Vancouver a year ago. Any hints about what's in store for your character, Johnny, this season? Anthony Michael Hall: He's just finished tracking down Sean Patrick Flanery [who plays corrupt congressman Greg Stillson] for four years.... I can't remember!
TV Guide: Why don't you try channeling Johnny's psychic abilities?Hall: [Laughs] I don't want to give it away, but the focus has to do with Rachel, the dead sister of Sarah Wynter's character, Rebecca. She's tracking down Stillson, until she finds out that he's responsible for Rachel's murder. There's also an agent who works for Stillson [who is] tracking me down.
TV Guide: Was it tough taping two seasons back-to-back? Hall: I looked at it like a marathon. I was building my own production company while I was doing a 60-minute show every seven days. The directors shift every week. The guest stars change every week. People either agree to get along, or they don't. When they don't, it gets reduced to high school.
TV Guide: Speaking of high school, your breakout film role was in Sixteen Candles and then you starred in The Breakfast Club. Ever watch when they're on TV? Hall: Absolutely! For a normal person, the equivalent would be a yearbook that sits on a shelf in your mom's house. This is a yearbook that came to life.
TV Guide: Do you still talk to members of the Brat Pack? Hall: Definitely. Judd [Nelson] and I reconnected. I just sent him my script for this movie I'm directing called Life After Death in Las Vegas — there's a bunch of people chasing an inheritance that they're all screwed out of by Wayne Newton.
TV Guide: You also had a Breakfast Club reunion with Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy at the MTV Movie Awards last year, right?Hall: It was like This Is Your Life. This is bizarre. We're in the front row, and Molly is on my left, Ally's on my right. They're both holding my hand because they're nervous and excited. Molly is like, "I want to talk first!" Ally goes, "No, I want to say something and scratch my hair like in the movie with the dandruff." Then Molly goes, "I just had a baby. I'm afraid my t--s are going to fall out." I go, "That's exactly what you have to say!" She did, and they cut it out. It was so awesome, and they cut it out. There was white light and 2,000 people. It was surreal.
TV Guide: Speaking of surreal, you play a psychic in The Dead Zone. Ever been to see one yourself? Hall: I met with John Edward a couple of years back. We became friends. I met with Char Margolis, and that was amazing. She knew too many people's names in my life! She spoke to some of the transitions that I'm making.
TV Guide: Like what? Hall: Just going out on my own and seeking other opportunities outside of the entertainment business. She was right about some of that. Of course, I was always interested in all of that psychic stuff. So I guess my propensity for it contributed to my readiness to play that part. That's something John Edward said, too.
TV Guide: Are you sad to say goodbye to Johnny? Hall: It's been interesting to grow into the character. It's what I refer to as Young Leading Man School. I wanted to show leadership on the set, be an active producer. It was an amazing challenge. [Since sitting down for this interview, Hall revealed in a TVGuide.com podcast that this may not necessarily be Dead Zone's final season, that talks are ongoing and he's open to another round.]
TV Guide: So, at 38, do you feel like you've finally ditched your Sixteen Candles Farmer Ted character and escaped Jake Ryan's shadow? Hall: [Laughs] Everybody wants to know about Jake! You know what's funny? Twenty years later, I have girls come up to me like, "Oh, my God! Do you know how to get a hold of Michael Schoeffling?" When we did Sixteen Candles, he taught me how to put pomade in my hair. He had that thing down, right? I heard he married a model and they moved to Pennsylvania and he makes furniture. I love the guy.

As you may recall, the Teas family was the focus of a two-hour Makeover special last October (reairing this Sunday at 7 pm/ET), which showcased a total face-lift of Camp Barnabas, the Purdy, Mississippi, retreat the family runs for scores of young people with severe disabilities. The remodel, including a three-bedroom home, a bunkhouse and a TV Guide-themed media center, was chronicled in the first issue of the redesigned TV Guide.
While Cyndy smiles every time she opens her gleaming ovens or gazes at the living-room sculpture featuring wooden cutouts of campers' hands, it was the sight of 10 staffers comfortably lined up along her kitchen island to assemble those enchiladas that somehow touched her the most. "To not be crowded in your home, to have a setting worthy of the people who work so hard to help these children, it's truly overwhelming," she says.
"Everything's a little brighter now and a little more hopeful," Cyndy says. "We finally have a place that's as special as these kids are, and they hold their heads higher now."
The children aren't the only ones. When Cyndy and her husband, Paul, hosted 40 staff members for a pre-camp planning session in February, morale was still soaring, Cyndy says. "In the past, we were lucky to find space on the floor for people to sleep. Now we actually hear words like 'cozy' and 'comfortable.'"
The makeover turned out to be a gift that keeps on giving. A third of the new staffers learned about the camp from the episode, and campers this summer come from as far away as Wales. At a recent open house, the camp took in $10,000 in donations. "And we weren't even soliciting contributions," Cyndy says.
How are those media-center chairs and tables — fashioned from old issues of TV Guide — holding up? "They're indestructible, as perfect as the day [Makeover host] Ty [Pennington] made them," Cyndy says. The TV Guide wallpaper (showing 2,970 different covers), meanwhile, is "everybody's favorite part of the house," she says.
The bigger changes, of course, go beyond the new walls, and one camper in particular benefited from ABC's visit. Cameron, a blind 17-year-old skateboarder who got to hang out with Ty, "is a different person" since the show, Cyndy says. "He was going through typical teenage stuff that's 100 times worse when you're blind. He's ready to tackle life again."
That really speaks to Makeover's most basic goal. As executive producer Tom Forman says, it's "to help people whose needs are more than they can handle on their own."
Tragically, one of the campers — Ryan Capps, 17, from Ozark, Mississippi — died May 18 from kidney failure due to congenital defects of the spine, heart and kidneys.
"Ryan was too ill to be there for the reveal but got a preview of the finished house and was so excited by the changes," Cyndy says. "She told us later, 'I always wanted you to have a great house. In some small part, because I'm a camper, I was part of making that happen, and I'm really proud of that. It makes me want to live every day to the fullest.'"
This weekend's rebroadcast is being dedicated to Ryan's memory.

TVGuide.com: In case people missed last week's premiere, how would you describe Windfall? Sarah Wynter: It is about a group of 20 friends, a mixture of married couples and single people, who get together every week and have a potluck dinner at someone's house. Sometimes there are stragglers, or people will bring people from out of town, but it is an informal get-together where someone takes a coffee can filled with one-dollar bills that everyone puts in, then goes to the store and buys lottery tickets. They win almost $400 million and, of course, all their lives change. It is more or less a cautionary tale of "Be careful what you wish for" and "What would you do if all your dreams came true?" It is not a sitcom — it is dark, to disturbing levels.
TVGuide.com: Your character, Beth, is married to a guy who seems to be still involved with his ex. Wynter: Well, they certainly are exploring that. It is quite a complex little triangle — or square, if you include both married couples — because they were college sweethearts, so it is almost like, "Who is the one who was cheated on?" Even though I am the one Cameron ended up marrying, he still kind of holds a torch for Nina. It gets very gray as to who is cheating on whom, but it is definitely wrong no matter which way you look at it. There are endless possibilities for great story lines. I joke that it is a cross between Dynasty and thirtysomething. It is not really like either show, but we have those over-the-top moments — like the pizza- delivery girl leaving the trailer park in a helicopter — but it is those moments that give you goosebumps and make you think, "That is what I would do. Good people like that should win a lot of money." But then you read in the paper every day about lottery winners who lose it all and get death threats.... Our show explores paternity suits and divorce and greed. It is a bit like someone who is really drunk. Someone with a lot of money can show their true colors.
TVGuide.com: Sounds juicy! Wynter: It is incredibly juicy, one of those guilty pleasures. It is the kind of show I would relish watching, especially with so many reruns on [during the summer].
TVGuide.com: I know it's an ensemble, but your little love quadrangle really seems to be at the forefront.Wynter: I think the main focus is [that], but it will go off on tangents. It is a rich tapestry with many different threads woven in, and this one central, connecting thing — this huge amount of money. My character had a lot of things happen to her and because of her, which I like. She is certainly not a victim. Just because she doesn't scream and shout and become hysterical doesn't make her not powerful. She has a quiet power. She's not all flashy and "If you are cheating on me, I'm going to divorce you, sucker." She looks at the bigger picture, which makes her smart.
TVGuide.com: She's a florist as well. Wynter: Yeah, but that certainly doesn't define my character. I don't think I had another scene in the florist shop [since the premiere].
TVGuide.com: Well that sort of answers my next question. A lot of people dream of quitting their jobs when they win the lottery. Does Beth quit? Wynter: It isn't really addressed, but it is assumed that she doesn't work at the florist any more. She doesn't sit around on her yacht, either. What I like about Beth is that she still drives her Saab that is probably 15 years old. She isn't one of the ones who goes out and buys a Mercedes or a McMansion. But she certainly treats herself. In the second episode [airing tonight], she and Nina do something really fun together. They go on this fantastic trip and spend a lot of money.
TVGuide.com: Would you be a little frivolous if you won all this money? Wynter: Oh, yeah. I'd go to an art gallery and buy art I can only look at in books, and buy clothes. Of course I would love to do noble things with it, and I would, but the first 24 hours would be just a whirlwind of, "Look at that, I love that, I'll buy that."
TVGuide.com: Can you tell me about some of your other upcoming projects? Wynter: I did a movie called Shooting Livien, which just came out on DVD. We were invited to the South by Southwest Film Festival [for that], but I had just started Windfall and I couldn't go. Ally Sheedy is in it, and Jason Behr (The Grudge) and Dominic Monaghan (Lost).... Three Dollars came out in Australia — I'm not sure if it has distribution here yet — and it is a beautiful movie with Frances O'Connor and David Wenham. It was my first Australian movie, so I was really excited to go back and do that... and finally do an Australian accent. I never get to do my own accent, which is a hybrid of American and Australian now. In fact they had to ask me, "Can you sound a little bit more Australian here?" That had me laughing because everybody in America always says that I sound very Australian, and they thought I sounded very American. Ah, the irony.
TVGuide.com: We got our first big glimpse of you on 24. Do you keep up with the show? Wynter: I try to watch the DVDs so I can see it commercial-free, plus then I can do a marathon. It is such a great show, and it was such a fantastic experience for me to be on it. I loved it, I absolutely loved it. I feel like I am part of something that is quite groundbreaking. Because they repeat it all the time, and because people do watch the DVDs, I get recognized from that show daily. People know my full character name —"Are you Kate Warner from 24?" They know the names, they ask about specific scenes.... It almost has a Trekkie-like following. They are very serious fans.
TVGuide.com: Hopefully some of those smart fans will watch Windfall as well. Wynter: Yes. It is equally a smart show — it is just not all in one day. There is a lot happening, but no bombs, no terrorism.
TVGuide.com: Let's hope. Wynter: Yes. Let's hope. You never know.
TVGuide.com: How many episodes of Windfall are there? Wynter: There are 13 for now. Hopefully a lot of people will tune in and they'll pick us up for the rest of the season, which is nine more. Then we'll be on for five years and get terribly successful and people will become obsessed with it and there will be Windfall T-shirts. [Laughs]
TVGuide.com: The show started out with 20 people, so there are a lot of characters to delve into. Wynter: Yeah, and some are very shady characters. Some people we don't know very well, other people come into the mix, a lot of people are threatened.... We as actors feel that we've won the lottery in a way by getting this show. It is an interesting parallel. One of the actresses got a Mercedes because she's now making money, and one of the characters on the show gets a Mercedes because she's won all this money. Obviously we haven't won $20 million each, but we are pretty well paid!

Acknowledging that one of the producers on Treasure Hunters is none other than Imagine Television's Brian Grazer — aka the very man who gave us Tom Hanks as Da Vinci code-breaker Robert Langdon — executive producer Jane Lipsitz (Project Runway, Last Comic Standing) says, "The things that are successful about The Da Vinci Code are taking these incredibly familiar icons and [revealing] secrets and mysteries around them, and we applied that to Treasure Hunters. But this is about secrets of American history, so in that sense, it's a 'more secular' version."
The way that Treasure Hunters sets itself apart from reality kin Amazing Race is twofold. "There's a big play-at-home factor for the audience," says Lipsitz, "and there's a connective tissue that runs throughout all our episodes, as you have to figure out how all these artifacts connect to bring you to the final treasure."
Who's on the hunt? The teams are handily categorized as follows: Geniuses (who boast 10 academic degrees among the three of them); Grad Students (including the reality-TV requisite set of hottie twins); Young Professionals; Southie Boys (Boston buds who brag of, no joke, their "street smahts"); the Wild Hanlons (a cinch to win if mullets come into play); Ex-CIA; Air Force; Miss USA (pageant also-rans who debate early on whether or not to "use" the menfolk yet); and two families, the Fogals (who have God on their side, seeing as papa doth preach) and the Browns (almost embarrassingly, African-American brothers).
Noting that "casting is always a key to the success of these series," Lipsitz says Treasure Hunters "takes all kinds of smarts and intelligence — street versus book smarts, rational versus logical thinking — and we wanted to have teams that represented all of that. At first glance, Ex-CIA and Air Force would seem to be in the lead, but we also wanted people with interesting and more relatable approaches to how they solve puzzles. And while there are physical elements [to the challenges and hunting], we balance that with the intelligent side as well."
It is also Treasure Hunters' ambition to show off the historical side of America, as opposed to the almost-incomprehensible globe-trotting and tropical locales featured on other reality offerings.
"A lot of shows out there show exotic foreign places, and we feel like America hasn't been explored in that way," says Lipsitz. "So when [our teams] arrive at Mount Rushmore, we wanted that to feel huge and magnificent and meaningful and just as exotic, even though it's on American soil."
But exactly what is it that is hidden somewhere in these United States? What is the treasure — depicted in the show's opening as a chest of gold coins straight out of a prop closet — that these teams seek? Lipsitz's lips are sealed. "The treasure itself is part of the mystery," she hedges. "Like a real-life treasure hunt, you never know what you're actually going to find!"