“No matter how much programming improves, however, media savants tend to see the medium living out numbered days. It's feared that the Internet will do to TV what TV did to the movies in the 1950s. But instead of panicking, the networks are finding ways to co-opt the Web.” WayMatterMediaTelevisionTvsInternetFindingsMediumsProgrammingSavantsNumbered Days Author:Tom Shales
“I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the stand-up movement in this country is phenomenal. Its like rock'n'roll here. Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.” PeopleThinkingCountryThreeSkyRocksMovementTelevisionFindingsMediumsBritainComing OutRock N RollPlatformsPhenomenalFunny People Author:Brendan Coyle
“Television is competitive now, and the great stories live on television right now. I'm finding that I'm enjoying television more than film, these days. That was my motivation to take a TV show.” StoriesShowsFilmMotivationEnjoyTelevisionTvsRight NowFindingsThese DaysTv Shows Author:Jaimie Alexander
“It's impossible to overvalue the importance of television - both in its serious and less serious functions. It's one of our most important ways of finding out the truth - and also of changing the world, and finding out what in the world needs changing. It's also an immense bringer of joy - I learnt how to laugh through television, and now my children and I, every day of every week, share the joy and stupidity of TV shows - they actually make us HAPPY” WorldWayNeedsChildrenImportantShowsJoyLaughingImpossibleWeekShareTelevisionSeriousTvsFindingsFunctionImportanceStupidityMy ChildrenChanging The WorldImmenseTv ShowsFinding Out The Truth Author:Richard Curtis
“There's never been a great fight without the writers taking on and finding an identity for it. That's probably what has happened boxing. Writers are not writing about us big boys anymore and I tell you right, however you feel, take something, find it, and use it because American needs something to read about.” NeedsFeelsWritingUseBigsFightingBoysHappenedIdentityTelevisionFindingsBoxing Author:George Foreman
“More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe it's because some of the best stories are being told there.” WorldBelieveStoriesActorsRoomsTelevisionFindingsFinest Author:Jeffrey Dean Morgan
“Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.” HumansShowsSuccessfulTelevisionElementsFindingsFormulasTelevision ShowsCoca ColaRum Book:A Book Source: A Book
“It's not even that finding laundry pleasurable or delightful should be our goal rather than finding television delightful. It's that both laundry and television can be delightful.” ShouldGoalTelevisionFindingsDelightfulLaundry Author:Ian Bogost
“Wouldn't we all rather have the possibility of finding pleasure and delight in literally anything we might encounter? Instead of assuming that actually there are only these three things where pleasure and delight are possible. Like oh, it's television and socialization and work, and then everything else is the smoke I have to somehow choke my way through in order to get to the good parts.” WayMightOrderThreePleasurePossibilityTelevisionFindingsAssumingDelightSmokeMy WayEncountersThree ThingsChokeSocialization Author:Ian Bogost
“There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.” WorldChildrenBookKidsWatchesNiceWifeTelevisionDrugDiseaseFindingsCleanDivorceBoredConformityDistraction Book:Lullaby Source: Lullaby