Mariella Frostrup Quotes

You know, a TV show is a slow build.

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

My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it.

You know, we've got so much on Bravo and coming up on Bravo, and I think we have so much more going on than 'The Real Housewives.' And I think 'The Real Housewives' is a great, you know, great addition to the portfolio. I think it brings a lot of viewers under our umbrella. And I think they stay and sample other shows.

Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.

A lot of times, us within the industry, we can put this bubble around ourselves and create what a show is supposed to look like and sound like, and we're seeing so much content. The best compliment is, 'I finally found something to watch with my family,' or, 'This is how I really feel, and I can't believe they're showing this on television.'

It is harder to get adult, character-driven material on television than it used to be, but there are lots of other places that you can go to sell it. If you can do it for basic cable or pay cable, we have those outlets.

Film, schmilm. I'm telling you, television is so much harder.

In the summertime, it's always hard to introduce new series; everyone's ready for that in the fall.

Summer is a great opportunity for all of cable. People love to find original episodes.

It's funny: We have so many shows and so many channels and so many things to occupy people as entertainment, especially with a show like 'Scandal,' which is clearly a hit, with a lot of heat around it - but every once in a while, people will say, 'What are you doing?' and I'll say 'Scandal,' and they'll have no idea what I'm talking about.

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

I like to watch all those shows that shouldn't be on the air - reality shows.

I wouldn't be comfy going toe to toe launching a new scripted show against broadcast.

I think NBC got a little reluctant to get behind single-camera shows after 'Scrubs' didn't do what they thought it was going to do following 'Friends.'

Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt.

TV is really about keeping things fresh and making sure you have the most energy possible for these very short spurts of time.

I can't create magic, where all my serials will have the highest ratings.

I think the good thing about 'Take Me Out', which is kind of a compliment to us really, is that when it started doing well round about the second series and people started getting into it, all of a sudden every time you turned over a channel there's a new dating show on.

TV is just another opportunity for me to entertain people. Although it's definitely a lot slower than the Internet, that's for sure.

Have I ever presented a programme I don't watch? Well, I've done loads of programmes that no one else watched!

I have got lots of offers from networks for more reality shows.

I don't know if TV is where I see my format working.