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Chances are high that your favorite off-the-air series has received a celebrity rewatch podcast over the past few years.
Enter, across the chaise lounge,The Psychologists Are In.
To quote a wise man: You know thats right.
Im curious to see where this whole path can go now.
Its because of people like you that this continues.
I always felt that if I didnt become an actress, I wouldve become a reporter or a journalist.
My friend owns Cloud10, which is the podcast company that produces ourPsychrewatch.
It was a medium that was bringing people a lot of peace.
Comfort shows took on a different meaning.
All of a sudden, there was this space.
I think we all had the sense of,Huh.
Did the show have to have been off the air for long?
What are the rules around this?
I didnt know anything.
I didnt even know if it was my role to do this.
Both of them said I could absolutely host aPsychpodcast.
We were about to start filmingPsych 3, so there was a lot of love and buzz.
I called Tim and I was like, What do you think about going back?
Of course, he was like, Wait whats the technical side of this?
But I kept thinking,Ive got to get Tim onboard.Lassiter and Juliet just seemed right.
So I laid it all out: I will come do the setup at your house.
All we have to do is have the lovefest we always have when we talk about our show.
He was like, Oh, hell yes.
And then, honestly, I had no idea what we were doing.
All I knew was I wanted to hear every single detail about howPsychcame to be.
It was easy to start with origin stories.
Steve Franks has, from the very beginning of the show, held a no-assholes policy.
I wanted to check that we stayed in the spirit of that.
Sometimes theres apush for gossip.People want to know if there was drama behind the scenes.
Theres nothing like that here.
I feel like were still learning.
I had some fear about going into a hosting space because Im not playing a character.
Theres a lot of vulnerability that goes along with that.
I used to turn down podcasts.
I used to turn down interviews.
It was a huge fear.
I had a lot of anxiety talking about myself or being in this host space.
Itll go down as one of the greatest if notthegreatest eras of my life.
And its still continuing.
Theres still a lot to come with it.
Were also now panicked because weve done so many and were already on season five.
Tim and I are trying to explore ways of slowing it down a little bit.
I mean, I wasnt in the pilot.
I have thiswhole other storyof how I came to it.
Tim does this fun thing where he declares, Okay, Im about to share aPsychfirst.
Everybody pull over and settle down.
Theres no intention of being like, Dun-dun-dun.
We have this major breaking news for you.
Sure, it would be nice if more outlets took notice.
I do see a lot of quotes and information coming from other podcasts and making headlines.
ButPsychhas a very strong cult following.
For us, its just fun to share these stories.
A popular rewatch podcast is theoretically a good data point for networks to consider reboots and reunions.
Is this something you have given much thought to?
Im wondering if, say,Psych 4is coming to quicker fruition because of your work here.One-hundred percent.
Theres a whole nostalgia thing thats happening in the industry.
For us, keepingPsychpresent and alive is a priority.
Theres still so much to do and stories to tell.
We do have a script forPsych 4 Im allowed to say that.
We dont have the green light yet, but I know weve at least gotten that far.
Its a seed, and something can grow from it.
I feel like this world is meant to keep opening up.
The podcast is the thing thats keeping the family together every week.
And from it, there are endless possibilities.
What would be your ideal way to continuePsychbeyond the films?Lets reboot the show.
Lets go all the way.
I think we did such a good job of tracking our characters lives as were getting older and growing.
I dont want to stray too far from thePsychspecialty.
Tim and I recently talked about the idea of redoing the musical episode.
Steve has a lot of ideas up his sleeves; Ive heard some of them.
Theres still goals in the storytelling.
Its fun as we all get older to watch how silly we can still be after all this time.
Ill leave you with that.
I really miss it, and the podcast reminded me of that.Its interesting that evenMonkis doing a movie now.
Tim and I have observed this sort of thing on the road.
Its a feel-good show.
Maybe thats part of what the blue-sky intention was.
We were like,Oh, this is going to be embarrassing.
It was very moving.
The ethos ofPsychis being very open, loving, and accepting of everyone.
We werent trying to be the sexiest show.
We wanted to have fun and be silly.
I think we achieved that.
You havent had any acting credits since.
Throughout my career, Ive always been pretty clear on what I wanted to do next.
AfterOutmatchedwas canceled during the pandemic, there was a little bit of sadness.
It had that magicalPsychquality to it, so I really thought it was going to continue.
I wasnt clear on what the next thing was for me after that.
The podcast opened into this other world that Ive always wanted to know about.
Its been a lot of work and its taken a lot of time.
I havent been as clear on the acting side.
Simply put, there were more doors opening for me as a host.
Im excited to go back to work and act when that happens again.
But this has been so fulfilling.
I used to turn down podcasts.
I used to turn down interviews.
It was a huge fear.
I had a lot of anxiety talking about myself or being in this host space.
Thats a little bit of why I decided I should explore it: to face the fear.
