Chris Claremont Quotes

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.'

I've been such a fan of American TV.

People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television.

But reality television is here to stay.

I grew up with 'Roseanne'; I kind of adore her and stuff like' Home Improvement', really traditional American stuff.

When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.

You know as well as I do that the family sitcom was the stalwart of TV for God knows how many decades.

I love the '50s and grew up loving works from that time period and from those great playwrights.

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

We have a lot of American TV in Australia. I grew up watching 'Seinfeld,' 'The Simpsons' and those prime time TV shows over the years that feature grown-ups and high school kids. We had a saturation of American voices.

'Twin Peaks' is my favorite American TV show.

Everybody in America was talking about TV early in 1949, though comparatively few Americans owned a set of their own.

I'd been brought up on... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.'

I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

I love Westerns. They're a unique creation of American mythology.

If you want to know what's going on in America, you have to watch soap operas.

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 watch a lot of television. The stuff that they're putting on television, series like 'The Americans' and 'Game of Thrones,' it's so superior to most of the films that are coming out of Hollywood in terms of drama, certainly in terms of what we're interested in.

I watched a lot of American TV, all those repeats of 'Star Trek,' 'Fantasy Island,' 'M*A*S*H,' 'Lost in Space.' All that stuff was the fodder of my childhood.

I'm obsessed with 'The Americans.' It's one of my favorite shows. I also love 'Baskets' - low-brow, high-art comedy.

Shows like 'All in the Family' and now 'Mom' - there's a tradition of tackling real issues.

I've got 'Lost' and '24' on TiVo. And I'm an 'American Idol' fan.

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

We have got offered some shows in America, but really dopey shows - like reality shows.

Reality TV - I'm not trying to dog it, everybody has their own thing, you know - but I didn't see it for me.