Kyle MacLachlan Quotes

We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings.

Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.

'Scrubs' has always had a very loyal fan base. When it started out, it was an explosion because it was after 'Friends,' but I think there have been times where it has peaked and valleyed.

'Parks and Rec' is definitely a mainstream show - the group that watches it on TV on Thursday night is small, but the audience that watches it on things like Hulu, Netflix, and Tivo is enormous.

Businessmen and corporate men watch 'Hee Haw.' With that kind of audience, how can they take it off?

I understand that there's going to be a shelf life for 'Jersey Shore.'

I wondered if Olympus had gone to a commercial break, or if our ratings had been any good.

The 'NCIS' franchise is beyond successful.

Television can be a very fickle place.

'American Idol' has changed the face of television.

The entire season, the show had never been aired for more than three weeks. You can't get an audience that way. They would never promo the show for the next week.

'Rescue From Gilligan's Island' was the first of the so-called reunion shows on the networks, getting a 54 share. With numbers like that, everybody else started to have reunion shows.

There are a lot more TV sets in use on Monday night than on Sunday afternoon.

We'll never see national shows with 45 shares again.

When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons.

Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on the tube. 'Survivor' and 'X Factor' get twice the ratings.

I wish I'd done a tenth year of the 'Roseanne' show.

I think people connect better with TV. stars over film stars.

Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences.

Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.

People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of 'Glee.'

I know a lot of procedurals have huge viewership, yet they're never nominated for awards.

I have a hit TV show.

'Orange Is the New Black' was by far the most watched show in both France and Germany and, in fact, all of the markets that we launched.

I think any show after the Super Bowl will have huge numbers.