The new single camera comedy from Emmy and Globe nominated actor/writer/producer Paul Reiser revolves around his life at home with his wife and kids and getting back in the spotlight. Why TV now? “I Felt America needed me,” the comic and TV star said jokingly to us reporters on a press call recently. “I wasn’t at all looking for it. There was no plan. This came about when a nice executive from Warner Bros. called me and said, ‘We’d like for you to develop something for you.’ And I’m nothing, if not susceptible to flattery and nice things, so I just wrote my life and when it was done, I thought, ‘This is very fun. I know people would watch this.’ It felt like the timing was right.” But Paul is no dummy. Paul, who has been a stay at a home dad since his mega hit ‘Mad About You’ finished over ten years ago, will take the time-slot of short lived ‘Perfect Couples’ on Thursday, at cushy 8:30pm and is aware of the upheavals of gaining a hit show. “As you know, one of the things about TV and launching a new TV show that is the trickiest is everybody wants you to be a hit right away, and you have to come out with huge numbers and I have never felt that I could do that with anything. I’m not reinventing the wheel here and this show was kind of thrown suddenly and every quickly and I don’t expect that were going to come out and were going to beat American Idol, we’re not that show, but I do know that this is the show that week after week will build and people will, you know, if given the chance, and people leave it in its spot, which is something networks don’t like to do, but I’m tremendously confident that if you just put this on and leave it, there will be a huge audience that will find it and it won’t be 200 million people, but here will be many people who will be drawn and so I can’t wait for it to get on the air.” Sounds like Paul has it all figured out. If this doesn’t work he can become a TV executive. Reiser got Larry David and reality TV king Mark Burnett to guest star and even enlisted great friends Helen Hunt and Daniel Stern to direct some episodes. ‘The Paul Reiser Show’ debuts Thursday, April 14 at 8:30p ET on NBC.