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“Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.”

“Within the world of TV land, into which American life has been reduced as well as reproduced, the phenomenon of the talk show has emerged as a genre located somewhere on the spectrum between coffee klatch and town meeting, or perhaps between the psychiatrist's couch and the crowd scene at a bad accident.”

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Book:The Rooster's Egg

Source: The Rooster's Egg

“Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. It's like a new way of telling stories.”

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Author:William Gibson

“I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool genre of television.”

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Author:Thu Tran

“You used to have to make a choice. Is it a serialized television show, or is it a stand-alone or procedural? We were wildly influenced by The X-Files. Even when we created Fringe, it was the same thing. It's the gold standard of all gold standards, in genre television, and it was so wonderful because you felt so much for those characters.”

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Author:Alex Kurtzman

“The genre of television that I love and watch is so vast. There's not one type of thing I love.”

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Author:Bridget Regan

“I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.”

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Author:Tony Goldwyn

“I love horror movies, so it's a real treat to be able to work on a television show of that genre, and have it actually be really, really good.”

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Author:Alexandra Breckenridge

“When I decided to pursue a career as a Muppet Performer when I was in college, it was my hope to be able to play a wide range of Muppet characters in all areas and genres of television and film.”

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Author:Stephanie D'Abruzzo