Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes

The good thing about TV is that you can still watch the product, even if you're not in charge of it anymore.

24 hour broadcasts have to stretch limited material to fit 24 hours worth of space.

There's not a lot of light on television.

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.

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

Pay-per-views and television are so fast-paced. It's very hectic.

TV is one of the biggest mediums, and over time, it will get bigger.

I skip through the programming to watch the commercials.

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

Television is such a mediocre medium.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.

I really like the way Fox handles their shows.

The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.

My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

I think TV is the only place left where you can have a midsize something.

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.

I'm pretty captivated by reality TV and I know that as an actor I probably shouldn't be saying that, but it's what I like to watch.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

If there's room for 30 reality shows, surely there's room for two amazing costume dramas.

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

With TV, you're in people's houses every night. And you have so much time to tell stories. I don't know why I didn't do it before.

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