Starter for 13

Co-showrunner Shawn Ryan on how he teamed up with Ted Griffin for the FX show Terriers:

"We said to Ted: 'Hey, if you ever have a TV idea, come to us," Ryan recalls. "We told him that we'd love to hear it and maybe work with him on it. And after a certain amount of time, he said he did have an idea. It was very loose at the time, but he talked about classic '70s buddy movies. He also talked about The Rockford Files. I don't think he used this word, but I did — 'vibe.' He kept talking about a vibe, and he kept trying to explain [the show's] tone and how the tone was more important than the story in some ways, although the story had to be good. So I think I just said, 'Why don't you just write some pages?' And he did. A lot of the magic that was in the show was in those early pages. I just loved the writing from the beginning."