Preaching to the converted: Seth Rogen on his love of making TV

By Michael Idato
Updated December 8 2016 - 12:09am, first published 12:00am
British actor Dominic Cooper plays the preacher in the show's title, Jesse Custer. Photo: Joe Pugliese
British actor Dominic Cooper plays the preacher in the show's title, Jesse Custer. Photo: Joe Pugliese
The Preacher finds an otherworldly entity grafted to his soul. Photo: Matthias Clamer
The Preacher finds an otherworldly entity grafted to his soul. Photo: Matthias Clamer

Much like Matt Weiner's Mad Men, which languished in a bottom drawer for years before a network was willing to take it on, Seth Rogen's comic book-to-television adaptation Preacher spent a decade in the wilderness, the good idea that just wouldn't go away.