Share with: Ahead of the Channel Premiere of sci-fi drama EXTANT on Horror Channel, series creator & writer Mickey Fisher reflects on being plucked from relative obscurity, working with Steven Spielberg and hoping for life on Mars… Did you know from a young age that you wanted to be a writer? From the time I was maybe five or six years old I wanted to be an actor. Going to see STAR WARS is one of my earliest memories, but I didn’t quite understand what I was really watching. At a certain point, someone explained to me that Fonzie wasn’t a real guy, he was an actor pretending to a character on HAPPY DAYS, and I thought that sounded like the coolest job in the world. I went to The College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati to study Musical Theatre, and it wasn’t until I was there that I really started writing. A lifetime of loving movies and television started pouring out into plays and screenplays, and by the time I left college, I wanted to be a writer just as much as I wanted to be an actor.