Art Buchwald Quotes

If there's something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.

I'm a regular part of the TV audience world, and I know that I like shows that I would watch. And this is a series that I definitely would watch. And some episodes are better than others.

You know, we've got so much on Bravo and coming up on Bravo, and I think we have so much more going on than 'The Real Housewives.' And I think 'The Real Housewives' is a great, you know, great addition to the portfolio. I think it brings a lot of viewers under our umbrella. And I think they stay and sample other shows.

Ninety-nine percent of television shows, I've never seen.

I've grown up watching 'BQC' and 'KBC' and that's really serious stuff.

When we started with 'Big Brother' and created the reality genre, no one could ever foresee that there was so much space in the genre that it could deliver so many formats. There will be periods where there is not enough new stuff to keep the genre alive. But it will never die.

The CW likes to hold on to its shows.

There are only about three really, really good sitcoms on the air.

I haven't ever seen 'Lost'... I'm sorry.

I think TV is the only place left where you can have a midsize something.

I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

It's funny: We have so many shows and so many channels and so many things to occupy people as entertainment, especially with a show like 'Scandal,' which is clearly a hit, with a lot of heat around it - but every once in a while, people will say, 'What are you doing?' and I'll say 'Scandal,' and they'll have no idea what I'm talking about.

People forget that in the early '70s, Saturday was the most-watched night of television of the week. It was where you found 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' and 'All in the Family.'

'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.

There's not a lot of good TV.

I get tempted to do a reality show because I enjoy them so much.

The BBC is a very confident broadcasting organisation and it needs brands like 'Top of the Pops' and 'Top Gear.'

I know there have been some catastrophically unpopular programmes on television over the years. Has it ever got to the point where the only person still interested in what's happening is the person who's on the telly?

Generally, I am losing faith in telly, as we do have good dramas but not as many as there should be.

TV isn't like films; you can't rest on your laurels.

TV's great. I think the best stuff is happening on television.

I've got a lot to say about television. There's a lot going on in television right now and I feel like a huge part of television.

The reality television shows are a big hit with the masses with their Bollywood songs. Even if these TV shows are scripted, people are watching them.

After my show and others like it began airing on TV, network executives started to see that there was a market for outrageous, over-the-top content.