“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.” RealShowsAbleTelevisionHorrorTreatsGenreBeing RealTelevision Shows Author:Alexandra Breckenridge
“'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.” ShowsFictionMysteryTelevisionScience FictionMy FavoriteFringeTelevision ShowsInception Author:Jill Scott
“Sitting around with funny people, banging out jokes and creating a television show. I have no hobbies, no outside interests. I'm fine with spending 14 hours a day putting a show together with tape and string.” PeopleShowsTogetherInterestHoursTelevisionFineCreatingJokesSittingSpendingStringsTapeHobbiesTelevision ShowsSitting AroundBangingFunny People Author:Jon Stewart
“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
“Unless you're a directing producer of a television show, for the most part, the director comes in one week to direct and episode, and then leaves. I'd much rather produce television and occasionally direct an episode of a show I'm producing, then just come in as an outside director.” ShowsWeekProduceTelevisionDirectorsDirectProducersEpisodesTelevision Shows Author:Eric Balfour
“With a television show, it's about fighting to get it on the screen every week. It's like going into battle, and you have to fight these fights. Some are big fights, some are skirmishes, some you can come to detente on, but it's always a fight.” ShowsBigsFightingWeekTelevisionBattleScreensTelevision ShowsDetente Author:Alfred Gough
“I love my iPad. I'll see television shows that I have missed and I'll download them through iTunes. If there is an older movie that I want to watch right away, I can download that movie and watch it.” IfsWantI CanShowsWatchesTelevisionTelevision ShowsIpadsDownloadsItunes Author:Joel Silver
“When you're working on a television show with actors, what you hope you're doing is playing jazz with them all the time. You see what they're giving you, so you try to write back to that, and then they play with that, and you get a sense of what is going on. That's just a natural way in which TV series usually work.” WayGivingWritingTryingPlayShowsActorsNaturalTelevisionTvsJazzSeriesTelevision ShowsTv SeriesPlaying Jazz Author:Remi Aubuchon
“Martha Stewart's a convicted felon and they gave her another television show. What's next, the Scott Peterson Fishing Hour?” ShowsNextHoursTelevisionFishingTelevision ShowsFelons Author:Christopher Titus
“I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.” WritingMeanChildrenShowsSongTelevisionAlbumsMy FutureTelevision Shows Author:Dolly Parton
“When I start to think about all the things, I'm doing sometimes I just have to thank the man upstairs. Because I'm doing the morning show here in Chicago 5 days a week, and I have the syndicated radio show that's been going on now for several years. In addition we are in the midst of taping 13 episodes of a television show-The Legends of Jazz: The Masters of jazz on PBS-TV.” ThinkingMenYearsSometimesShowsMorningWeekTelevisionHe ManMastersTvsJazzRadioMidstChicagoLegendsEpisodesTelevision ShowsUpstairsPbs Author:Ramsey Lewis
“My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18, that was an early equivalent of educational television. Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.” KindArtPlayShowsFatherTelevisionEducationalVarietySundayAfternoonInvitedTelevision ShowsSunday Afternoons Author:John Sebastian
“Believe me, you don't walk away from the kind of money you make with a daily television show. You might get awful tired of it sometimes, but take a second look at the check and you get less tired right away.” BelieveLooksKindSometimesShowsMightWalksTelevisionTiredChecksAwfulBelieve In MeTelevision Shows Author:Johnny Carson
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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