Jerrod Carmichael Quotes

I was actually offered a talk show on CBS at one point, and I just didn't want to do it.

When we made 'Fireball XL5', I'd never heard of NBC, and I didn't even know what American networks were. I knew that it would be wonderful if the show was successful in America, but I knew nothing about the American networks.

I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.

I've had some of the best and most traumatizing experiences at NBC.

My goal was always to take a talk show to the network. I never wanted to be on MSNBC.

I started television in 2015.

There's still formulaic stuff on network television, but there's also more of an opportunity to have your way with storytelling, especially in sitcoms. That's what the difference is.

Coming back to 'New Girl' was a real reminder of how lucky I am to be on a popular network TV show.

I was joking the other day about how my real life feels like a TV show, and my TV life feels real - because, to be on Thursday nights on NBC, which is what I grew up with, has been such a big part of inspiring me. To be part of that tradition is really completely surreal, and I'm so grateful.

The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.

I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It's for NBC, it's called 'Afterthought,' and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun.

They say getting a show on the air and having it be a success, literally, the odds are like winning the lottery. For me, I've won the lottery several times, so I've been awfully lucky.

I still don't know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did.

What you can do is a matter of what you will do.

I'm not that interested in going and doing a network show but, like everybody else, trying to find something good.

I used to watch 'ER' a little bit when it was at its kind of apex.

Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.

Some of the best memories of my career have been with 'Sunday Night Baseball' and I will miss my time with our amazing crew, who have been like family.

I do remember a time and I can quite easily imagine a time without - looking to a future without 'Emmerdale.'

My dream scenario would be to partner with a huge media conglomerate, an NBC Universal or a Fox, and help give me a platform on television and help get me a TV show.

That's here on CBS, where the 'C' stands for 'Classy' and the 'BS' speaks for itself.

In the era of networks only, I cannot tell you the number of shows that we don't know about that did not survive. They got canceled. But there are a few that survived by accident, because they didn't have anything else to do, and they stayed with it.

Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

To understand this whole area, you have to stop thinking like a viewer and start thinking like a network programming exec.

I'm not a big believer in slavishly following research. It's one of the things that's wrong with television is that if you throw the whole - the decision-making process to the research department, you're not making any instinctive, visceral judgments about programs, which are show business.