This is Jane Pauley.

Whether you know him from Parks and Recreation, Big Little Lies, or the hit streaming series Severance.

You'll want to hear what actor Adam Scott has to tell Sunday mornings,

Connor Knighton.

Severance is one of those shows that people obsess about.

Between each week of it airing, they're talking about what's going to happen next.

What were those shows for you as a kid? Were there shows or movies that you were obsessing about?

Yes. That's so I love that question

because that's something I love talking about and I think everyone who lives in my house with me

is sick of hearing me talk about any of it. Let me be those ears then. Yeah, bring it on. My dad got

me a TV when I was a kid.

I was probably like 10 or 11 years old,

a 5-inch black and white, like portable television,

but we didn't have a TV over at my mom's house.

So I had my own television that I could just watch with abandon.

And I watched, you know, from like 7 o'clock when whatever was syndicated was on to usually when they,

back, do you remember back when they used to just shut off?

Oh yeah, there's like the American flag and then like, oh, see you tomorrow.

They would play the national anthem and then TV would just end. I would watch every night,

usually after whatever came after Letterman. But the things that I loved, that I grew to love in my

room just watching on that five-inch TV that were the Twilight Zone, but then I discovered David Letterman there. And that was a huge

perspective change for me as a kid, just seeing stuff on that show that I had never seen on TV

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