Don Johnson at an amfAR Cinema Against AIDS event in May.    Reuters

Question for Mr. Don Johnson: How does it feel being on the same network as Melanie Griffith?

Johnson: "Melanie's working?"

Yes, she's in "Twins," a sitcom about twins. Griffith's the mother, Mark Linn-Baker's the father, Sara Gilbert's the twin daughter, Molly Stanton's the other twin. The girls are taking over their parents' lingerie business, but can they get along? Because one's a little plain-Jane and smart (Gilbert), the other (Stanton) is sexy and kind of dense. It's a comedy of opposites!

As opposed to "Just Legal," which is a dramedy of opposites, a lot of it shot, apparently, in Venice. Overseen by the Jerry Bruckheimer Institute for Higher Television and created by Jonathan Shapiro.

Question for Mr. Shapiro. What's it like working for Bruckheimer's Institute for Higher Television?

"They pay you. I've never been paid before ... they have a sense of the totality of the production in terms of the look -- it was very important to me, because I did grow up here, that we honor this area. I just never felt that L.A. had been shown on TV the way I see it. Which is sort of a wish fulfillment, diverse kind of heaven."

Shapiro on lawyers on TV: " ... What I've come away with is that there's a kind of cheap cynicism about lawyers and about the law. And I hate it ... at the end of the day I want people to come away with the same sense of hope for law as I have."

I'm betting on Shapiro, I have hope for this show. He gives Don Johnson the line: "The law is still the best thing people have come up with to do good."

But back to Don on Melanie: "That was just a joke. Of course I know that she's on the network and I'm delighted for her and she'll be terrific, she's a wonderful talent."

The "Twins" panel followed. "I'm really happy for him," she said of Don. "I'm even happier for our daughter because her trust fund is going to be really healthy."