Tom Braidwood Quotes

Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.

You never know what's going to happen with television these days.

I've been such a fan of American TV.

I don't know much about British TV. Actually me, I'm looking more at American ones.

I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train.

I guess working on 'Mad Men' turned me onto AMC and really got me watching the network, and so with that I got a good idea of the type of show they like to produce.

There's a lot of great stuff on TV.

Television is just another appliance–it's a toaster with pictures.

TV's been good to me.

I was the King of Twinkie-Vision one day, the King of Jiggle TV the next, thanks to Farrah Fawcett and 'Three's Company.'

TV is one of the biggest mediums, and over time, it will get bigger.

Television is a huge industry, and actors down south are aware of it.

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Most of the TV shows I've done have all been in the U.S.

The future of American film lies on television.

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.

When I was a kid growing up, there might be 10 shows on the air that had been on for ten seasons or eleven seasons. 'Gunsmoke' ran for over twenty years.

I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.

I have no problem with television as a genre.

It's a very powerful medium now, and should be celebrated as such, because we have the greatest television in the world.

I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now.

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.'

Dan Rather pulling on a sweater and thereby winning a whole new chunk of the populace: That's television. President Reagan's press conferences: That's television. Keith Jackson is television. So are Kermit the Frog, instant replay, and the Fiesta Bowl.

I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life.