Teresa Medeiros Quotes

Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone.

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

But reality television is here to stay.

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

When I was a kid growing up, there might be 10 shows on the air that had been on for ten seasons or eleven seasons. 'Gunsmoke' ran for over twenty years.

Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.

TV's been good to me.

NBC programs great shows; it just doesn't have the eyeballs CBS does.

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

What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime.

In the U.S., there are around 300 shows in different networks, so there's a lot of work here.

I left 'The Bob Newhart Show,' which was my decision. CBS wanted it to go on. But I could see television changing; I could see the tastes were changing.

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

Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn't possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!

Most of the TV shows I've done have all been in the U.S.

There are only about three really, really good sitcoms on the air.

I wasn't a huge fan of reality shows, because I'm like 'they're taking away from the actors,' but sometimes mindless is just wonderful.

The future of American film lies on television.

I like to watch the Fox News Network. I like 'Nightline.' I like to watch 'The Sopranos,' of course. That is one of my favorite shows. 'Entourage' is another one. I like 'The Shield.'

Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience - to see something that's not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it's like their lives.

Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.

I love doing television series.

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.

In our first season we had a 22 rating. Today Seinfeld, a hit show, gets a 15. Lost in Space actually had a bigger audience than Star Trek got at that time.