Jasmin Bhasin Quotes

Television, nowadays, is like doing really long films.

Television can be a very fickle place.

Television is really fertile ground, and it's because of platforms like Netflix and Hulu and, of course, the cable channels like HBO and Showtime.

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.

The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.

I think television is a big commitment, so it has to be something that you're really excited about and something that you want to potentially commit a lot of time to.

They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.

I knew I wanted to do a show on NBC - it's rooted in its history; it's part rooted in nostalgia and part rooted in the potential of it. For me, there was no other choice.

Television has been a powerful medium and it has been a huge part of my life at least 15 years.

Television is not an easy medium, as keeping the audience glued to the TV screens day after day is something which requires a lot of effort.

Let me complain-it's good for television.

I hope to keep working with television. I wouldn't mind doing more.

I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.

I got into television in 1998 when I didn't have a computer or even an email address.

Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore.

Overnight ratings are dead. It's just not the way TV is sold any more.

I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising.

I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

7th Heaven is quite a hit for them now, and they are hoping to appeal to a very similar audience with our show; skewed slightly older I guess, since it's a 9:00 to 10:00 show.

Sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

As a television actor, when we work in TV, what we're doing is making a product so that networks can sell ad space.

I don't watch a lot of television, which sounds strange for someone who works in TV.

Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.

When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.

You know how trends go with television. Next year, the networks might not be open to taking risks.