“I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money.” StoriesShowsLawGamesTelevisionDramaProgramGuiltAppealsPlotOperaLots Of MoneySoapDetectivesJessicaMasonsSoap OperasCourtroomGame Shows Author:Peter Ackroyd
“The International Criminal Court, like most international institutions, is a wonderful idea. A noble idea. All it needs to work is planetary government, worldwide democracy and the triumph of reason over tribal loyalties, political doctrines and individual ambition. In other words, it requires that we all live in the world described by the "Star Trek" television shows.” WorldNeedsIdeasReasonShowsGovernmentPoliticalIndividualStarsDemocracyWonderfulTelevisionAmbitionInstitutionsCourtInternationalNobleCriminalsLoyaltyDoctrineTriumphTelevision Shows Author:James Lileks
“I never thought of myself as being that good looking, I was an actor, people saw me on television, and then they start to think you're good looking because of that presentation. I was no better looking before the show, than after - and before the TV show I couldn't get a date to save my life. So what changed? Did I suddenly become more good looking? No. I got lucky, I got a TV show. That's what happened.” PeopleThinkingShowsActorsSawsHappenedChangedTelevisionTvsLuckyTv ShowsLooking GoodPresentation Author:Parker Stevenson
“The major difference frequently is in time. The motion picture, for example, gives you considerably more freedom of expression than does the confined thirty-minute television show. But in essence, they're not that dissimilar.” GivingDoeShowsDifferencesMinutesExampleTelevisionExpressionMajorsEssenceThirtyConfinedFreedom Of ExpressionTelevision ShowsMotion Pictures Author:Rod Serling
“It's [Into the Badlands] something that's very, very different and I think that's why it divided critics initially because they didn't understand it or get it. They didn't understand or have a knowledge of what we were trying to do. Bringing in the Asian martial arts aesthetic to American television. For us, these are the people who will make the show a hit or a failure in future seasons. So it's for us to respect them and interact and see what they have to say.” PeopleThinkingTryingArtDifferentShowsTelevisionSeasonsCriticsMartial ArtsDividedAestheticAsianAmerican Television Author:Miles Millar
“My biggest surprise of the year does involve Donald Trump and it involves his money. And I am one of the prominent disbelievers of his claims of wealth and how rich he was. He put out a press release before he did his financial disclosure form saying he made over $200 million from a TV show.If you know about the economics of televisions, that sounds impossible. I don`t believe it.” IfsKnowsYearsBelieveDoeMadeShowsFormSoundWealthMillionsRichImpossibleTelevisionTvsTrumpEconomicsClaimsPressesSurpriseDon't BelieveFinancialReleaseTv ShowsProminentDisclosurePress ReleaseDisbelievers Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“We are told by media - books, television, reality shows - that heartbreak is this terrible thing and yet we should seek it. We're told that heartbreak is all about love and we should just go after that high over and over again. We are told it is healthy to be addicted to this kind of behavior and the highs associated with love. But, that's not all what heartbreak is.” ShouldKindBookShowsRealityMediaTelevisionTerribleHealthyBehaviorTerrible ThingsReality Shows Author:Sandra Cisneros
“You don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed. So a lot of that doesn't take place on television, at least the television I was doing at the time when I first started.” WantFirstsShowsCertainWrittenTelevisionRhythmDisturbed Author:Gary Cole
“It's a world creation show [Shadowhunters], so we've gotta work hard in the physical production capacity with the visual effects, the sets and everything. It's not just the real world with two people chatting in a diner. That's tough on a television budget.” PeopleWorldTwoRealHardShowsEffectsCreationTelevisionHard WorkToughCapacityProductionsBudgetsVisualsReal WorldShadowhuntersDinersChattingVisual Effects Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol
“One of the things that has happened is that our drug laws have been institutionalized now. If you want to say that somebody's a bad person in a movie or in a television show or something about that, you say they sell drugs or they use drugs.” IfsWantPersonsHas BeensUseShowsLawHappenedTelevisionDrugSellsTelevision ShowsDrug Laws Author:Carl Hart
“I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.” PeopleYearsShowsFoundNiceStreetsFrontsTelevisionSurpriseBritishLondonBritainPublishingTelevision ShowsDenmarkBritish Television Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“It's an exciting time to be in television, and it's a really exciting time to be on a Netflix show. I remember when Netflix first came out, I didn't quite understand the DVD thing and why my husband was mailing it back.” FirstsShowsRememberTelevisionHusbandExcitingMy HusbandRemember WhenDvdsNetflixMailing Author:Carrie-Anne Moss
“My first few years as TV critic, I would go to parties and people (usually older Posties or ex-Posties who seemed to pride themselves on not watching very much television) would take me by the arm and insist that I watch this show they'd recently starting watching on DVD, about drug dealers in Baltimore.” PeopleYearsFirstsShowsPartyWatchesTelevisionTvsPrideArmsDrugCriticsStartingTake MeExesDealerDvdsBaltimoreDrug Dealers Author:Hank Stuever
“I like to multitask. I love the process of the storytelling in television. I love the serial. Even my stab at doing a procedural show was still very much serialized. I'm such a serialized storyteller. I feel like the story never ends. I want it to go and go and go. However, with cable and streaming now it's endless. You can do anything.” WantFeelsStillsEndsStoriesShowsProcessCan DoTelevisionEndlessStorytellingStorytellerCablesSerialsStreaming Author:Kevin D. Williamson
“I have had a few rough patches in my life, but these last few years have been among the roughest. A few years ago, I left my job as host of the television show Extra. Our parting of ways was completely amicable; they were amazing to me. I had spent over a quarter of my life at that job, and without it, I felt like I had lost my compass. People didn't know how to introduce me anymore, because in L.A., you are your job.” PeopleKnowsWayYearsHas BeensShowsJobsLastsLostLeftFeltKnow HowTelevisionYears AgoExtrasRoughHostQuartersIntroducingCompassPatchesPartingTelevision ShowsRough Patches Author:Dayna Devon
“The work that I have been doing on television has been important to me because I have had the opportunity to portray very strong, intelligent women. It has been such a privilege to depict a woman that is independent, unapologetic, and resilient on both shows.” Has BeensImportantShowsOpportunityStrongTelevisionIntelligentIndependentPrivilegeVery StrongResilientUnapologeticIntelligent Women Author:Amanda Schull
“Even the most loyal viewers of a show would only watch one out of three episodes. As someone who made television, I always found that hard to believe because you want to believe people who love your show are watching every episode, but statistically it was true that people who considered themselves the most loyal viewers were only watching one out of three.” PeopleWantBelieveMadeHardShowsThreeFoundWatchesLove YouTelevisionLoyalEpisodesViewersHard To Believe Author:Tim Kring
“If you're going to do a guest spot on television, they need bodies on those procedural TV shows. You've got to keep working, and that's where a lot of the work is.” IfsNeedsShowsBodyTelevisionTvsSpotsGuestsTv Shows Author:William Mapother
“I watch very little television, actually. There's so many shows I want to watch and then I know I'll get hooked and I have to binge-watch the entire thing.” KnowsWantLittlesShowsWatchesTelevisionHookedBinge Author:Geena Davis
“I think network television is really hard because it has to sail right away. HBO's so much more nurturing, patient. They think it takes a while for a show to kind of congeal and figure out what its strong spots are.” ThinkingKindHardShowsStrongFiguresTelevisionPatientSpotsSailNurturingHbo Author:Amanda Peet
“Donald Trump threatened to file a defamation suit against me for running a TV ad that consisted only entirely of his own words on national television. Now, that's really a remarkable theory, that it is defamation to show people what he said on national TV. I think the voters are smarter than that.” PeopleThinkingSaidShowsRunningTelevisionTvsTheoryTrumpSuitsRemarkableVotersAdsSmarterThreatenedFilesDefamation Author:Ted Cruz
“Writing for television is a great job. And it's a job. Most people watch TV and have a comment about one or two moments of an episode - whether they love it or hate it or something in between. To come up with every moment of an entire season of a TV shows is heavy lifting.” PeopleWritingTwoMomentsShowsJobsHateWatchesTelevisionTvsSeasonsCome UpHeavyCommentEpisodesTv ShowsLiftingGreat JobHeavy Lifting Author:Steven C. Harper
“I mean, if they're doing a television show every night like Jon Stewart, or Ellen, or David Letterman, then they have their bunch of people who are sitting on a payroll someplace, who are coming up with material every day of the week. Those are the people who wind up doing the bulk of the work for them when they host the thing, because that's their team.” PeopleIfsMeanShowsNightWeekTeamTelevisionWindMaterialsSittingBunchHostEvery NightTelevision ShowsPayrollDays Of The WeekLetterman Author:Bruce Vilanch
“You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they tell you, "Here's the way to do bigger and better things," you start writing. You start writing that material that you might be doing off to the side. Nobody's going to be paying you for that, but it could turn into something big.” WayWritingShowsBigsMightTurnsWaitingSidesTelevisionMaterialsBiggerTelevision ShowsBigger And BetterBigger And Better Things Author:Ice Cube
“I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television.” ShowsWantedUsedMotherWatchesTelevisionQueensBeing A Mother Author:Stevie Wonder
“I've always approached television from a little more cinematic perspective, if not a much more cinematic perspective because of the shows I have been fortunate enough to work on.” IfsLittlesHas BeensEnoughShowsTelevisionPerspectiveFortunateCinematic Author:Bear McCreary
“I have been very fortunate in that I'm not doing all network shows or all cable shows, television has really become a year-round process in the way that it's made.” WayYearsHas BeensMadeShowsProcessTelevisionRoundsFortunateCables Author:Bear McCreary
“There are some incredible television shows. It seems a sort of succumbed place to be. At the moment, I'm quite happy sort of flitting from place-to-place. I wouldn't want to relocate from where I am right now in terms of where I live.” WantMomentsShowsSeemsTermTelevisionRight NowIncrediblesTelevision Shows Author:Simon Pegg
“If I did a TV show, it would have to be in North London because I'm a bit of a homebody, and my work takes me away from home enough. But yeah absolutely. Television has never been more exciting than it is now.” IfsEnoughShowsHomeBitsTelevisionTvsExcitingYeahLondonTake MeTv ShowsAway From HomeHomebodiesTake Me Away Author:Simon Pegg
“During Christmas time, on German television they show films with three or four episodes, and I quite like the feeling of waiting for the next episode.” ShowsFeelingsFilmThreeNextWaitingFourTelevisionEpisodesChristmas Time Author:Volker Bertelmann
“Dreams are more original than images we see in the media, and are surprisingly unaffected by media. For example, the average person watches several hours of television per day, yet dreams are rarely about shows we have watched or news of the day.” PersonsShowsDreamHoursWatchesMediaExampleTelevisionNewsOriginalsAverageAverage Person Author:Charles McPhee