Paula Marshall Quotes

With 'Nighty Night' series one, Oprah Winfrey's channel took it on, so she must have liked it.

We need more drama on Australian TV. We've actually dropped the ball on that.

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.

I think most people who were involved with television will tell you, if given a season or given a 13-episode order and getting those episodes on the air, and if viewers don't come, I think most people will tell you they'd walk away. They feel they were given a fair shake, and if viewers didn't come, they didn't come.

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 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.

My agent said that every Monday after an episode of 'Entourage,' at the staff meeting at the agency, that's all they do is talk about the episode the night before.

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 was so sad that 'Best Friends Forever' got cancelled. I thought it was a great show and NBC didn't give it a chance. I'm a big fan of the NBC comedies.

I love TV. I think I'd do a half-hour single-camera comedy.

My goal is for 'The Bill Engvall Show' to be a show the networks look at and say, 'Ooh, maybe we should get back to the family sitcom.'

We are not really privy to all that crazy stuff that goes on in the show. I go to work, eat, and talk about food. The wild things happen when we aren't around. I expected Top Chef to last three or four seasons and we are now shooting season ten.

On stage, you rehearse for five weeks, and it goes out to 300 people. In 'EastEnders,' you get ten minutes to rehearse, and seven million people watch it!

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

When TV companies stop coming up with ideas, and I've got to go and do 'Celebrity Big Brother,' I don't want that to happen.

The 'Love Island' team are the best in the business.

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

Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops.

I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.

I've never worked in the U.K. television industry, but my guess it that it's a tough world for directors.

TV's been good to me.

My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.'

I've been such a fan of American TV.

I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.

I have heard a lot of people talk about this grind of series television. I have not seen it yet.