We all read that stuff for pleasure, and we’ll call Michael Wilson and just ask him questions because he’s fun to talk to. We’re very interested in technique and how this stuff works. Because, even though we’re using it in a different context, it’s a really useful touchstone for us to know that we’re using something that has a basis in reality. Then we also talk a lot to our consulting producer, Michael Wilson, who has worked in that field and always has good ideas for places to go for stories…. We have the advantage of being able to use stuff from all around the world, so we’ll read a history of Russian spies or read all about the Mossad and techniques from everywhere. I’d say, with regard to the case of the week stories and the overall Burn Notice arcs, we focus a lot on taking elements of spy craft from the history of espionage, including the very early history, to World War II stuff. What are your sources of inspiration for each of the storylines in the episodes? Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar and Sharon Gless in “Burn Notice.” It’s not like I sat down to do a family spy show, but I guess it turned out that way. Everybody says to us, oh, your show is the only show that my daughter watches with her grandmother or – its people have this sort of family thing about it, and in a funny way, that’s the most gratifying because it’s totally not something we expected, having it well received in that way, I don’t know. All the people getting in touch with you, I think that for a lot of people on the show, oddly, nobody expected this, but everybody comments on it and how weirdly unexpected and mildly spooky it is. The best thing about it is all of your friends from high school call you. The truth is, it was always a really fun process, and it still is. People ask me, like, how has your life changed? Really, I come into the office every day, and then I work for a really long time, and then I go home. I guess in terms of the job, the sort of day-to-day of it, not much actually. What does the success of a show like this mean to you as a show runner? What does it mean to have a show that’s so successful and so, I guess, just well received by the audience? With the help of his possibly unhinged ex-girlfriend (Gabrielle Anwar), a not-quite-trustworthy former spy (cult-star Bruce Campbell) and his not-so-maternal mother (Sharon Gless), Westen tries to figure out who double-crossed him while using his skills to help normal people who have been wronged.Īs the second season of Burn Notice returns for the final several episodes (the show was recently renewed for a third season), Nix was nice enough to do a conference call with us and several other websites to talk about his show. Nix created and still runs the popular USA Network drama, about a former spy named Michael Weston (Jeffrey Donovan) who suddenly finds himself out in the cold – in sunny Miami. It takes skills to reinvigorate a tried-and-true genre like the spy story, however with his fast and funny hit series Burn Notice, Matt Nix is doing what he can to throw the style a changeup.
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