“I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.” IfsTryingWellsShowsComedyRiskAirWillingTvsFactorsComedianTv ShowsImprovisingThin AirRisky Business Author:David Walliams
“If I programmed my own TV network, it would air good news! Just positive stories. Heroic stories. Cute puppy dogs doin' stuff.” IfsStoriesStuffMy OwnAirDogTvsNewsCuteHeroicGood NewsPuppyPuppy DogCute Puppy Author:Jennifer Aniston
“If every violent program in the nation were blipped off the air for 48 hours, and replaced by reruns of the 'Donna Reed Show', there would not be one less death in South Central LA. At most you'd have several more incidents of people shooting out their TVs.” PeopleIfsShowsNationsHoursAirTelevisionTvsProgramSouthViolentShootingReplacedIncidentsReedsReruns48 Hours Author:J. Michael Straczynski
“The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air.” WorldThreeAirWeekTvsConflictPopsDisappearScreensAfghanistanThin Air Author:Isabel Allende
“We did 'The Simpsons Movie,' which took almost four years; it was the same people that do the TV show, and it just killed us. So that's why there hasn't been a second movie. But I imagine if the show ever does go off the air, they'll start doing movies.” PeopleIfsYearsDoeShowsFourImagineAirTvsFour YearsTv Shows Author:Matt Groening
“I don't have any TVs with their over-the-air receivers connected in my house. But when I'm in a hotel room or other places that have a TV, then I turn it on and flip the channels just like everybody else. I'm not immune to the lures of television. I just try to stay away from it because I like to read.” TryingTurnsHouseRoomsAirTelevisionTvsConnectedHotelFlipImmuneLureHotel RoomsReceiver Author:Bill Gates
“At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.” YearsEndsShowsTogetherGoneOur LivesCuttingAirWeekStageTvsBlessingMovedSevenTiesSeven YearsMoved OnFamily Ties Author:Gary David Goldberg
“I'm just happy our nations are on the same page of keeping shitty reality TV on the air. Small world!” WorldHumorRealityFunnyNationsAirTvsPagesReality TvSmall World Author:Kristen Schaal
“During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.” WorldPastTechnologyAirModernTvsCommunicationTravelRadioDecadesContactInstantFunny TravelWovenSatellitesAir TravelModern Technology Book:On Dialogue Source: On Dialogue
“If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV 'haves and have-nots,' they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators over the providers of our nation's only free and local communications system: over-the-air broadcasting.” IfsShouldNationsPayAirPolicySeriousTvsCommunicationFavorsLocalsAvoidingRefrainProvidersBroadcastingOperatorsHaves And Have Nots Author:Gordon Smith
“Watching a movie with an audience is so exciting. For me, coming from TV, you finish an episode and then it airs, and I'm at home. There's no gratification and there's no audience interaction with it.” HomeAudienceAirTvsExcitingInteractionEpisodesGratification Author:Genndy Tartakovsky
“Videos? Videos are important because millions of people watch TV and we can only tour and play so many places. But if you've got a video, then you're able to air it and millions and millions of people will see it.” PeopleIfsImportantPlayAbleWatchesMillionsAirTvsVideo Author:Jonathan Davis
“Doing reality TV is hard. You get lost. You are shooting three months before anybody sees it. So you are past [the emotions]. Then when it airs and the public sees it, they react and it drags you back. It feels you have grown, but then you suddenly feel like you haven't moved at all.” FeelsHardRealityPastThreeLostEmotionAirHavensTvsLike YouMonthsMovedShootingDragThree MonthsReality TvLost You Author:Michel'le
“I think it's fine that there are five million people who are watching [politics on TV], and obviously I'm happy they are since they're on the air, and there are a couple hundred thousand people reading The Weekly Standard online, and that's great too, but most Americans aren't engaged that intensely, and are much less partisan.” PeopleThinkingReadingMillionsFiveAirTvsFineCoupleThousandStandardsHundredEngagedOnlinePartisans Author:William Kristol
“In America there are people advocating for trans rights and people like Vice President Pence, who is vehemently opposed. In Pakistan, too, you have all kinds of folks - from flamboyant gay fashion designers and female Air Force pilots to the Taliban. A cross-dressed man used to be the top TV talk show host. It was actually quite radical. So the diversity of these societies is often lost on people.” PeopleMenKindShowsAmericaUsedLostForcePresidentRightsAirFashionTvsGayDiversityFemaleCrossesFolksVicesAll KindsUsed To BeRadicalDesignerHostPilotsPakistanTransTalibanVice PresidentAdvocatingFashion DesignerAir ForceTalk ShowsFlamboyant Author:Mohsin Hamid
“I fell into TV quite by accident but once I was in a newsroom for the very first time, I was hooked because I loved the adrenaline. There was a breaking story that day and people were running around to get the news on the air. I thought, Jesus, how do you get to do this? So, that's how it started. The bulk of my career was in TV.” PeopleFirstsStoriesRunningJesusCareersAirTvsNewsFirst TimeAccidentsAdrenalineHooked Author:Gayle King
“TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.” WritingHateAirTelevisionTvsCritics Author:Charles Kuralt