Dan Harmon Quotes

We always had one eye on doing Saturday night TV even when we were back doing mornings. That's where we wanted to go to get a bigger audience.

I'm on VH1 now, will be working on ITV's This Morning again from September.

But reality television is here to stay.

There are some great shows that come and go really fast, either because the network doesn't give them a chance or they just don't grab on to the psyche of the country quickly enough.

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.

'The Simpsons' obviously is a huge success, and Fox has nothing to do with its success, with its creative success, and as a result they don't really like the show. They don't like 'The Simpsons' at Fox.

Understand me, Hollywood miniseries are very popular in England. But British miniseries make a tremendous mark on the national consciousness. They become part of the national culture and mythology... at least for a time.

I didn't expect people would embrace 'Ang Probinsyano' the way they did during its first year.

There are very few movies that become real phenomenons the way 'Twilight' or 'The Hunger Games' did.

It's easy for the board to say, 'Well, add makeover shows.' The No. 1 show for women in the United States is 'The Walking Dead.' That's not a makeover show.

When 'The Sound of Music' aired live on NBC, 18 million people were talking about theater the next day. That's incredible. 'Grease' felt like a chance for me to participate in that landscape.

I knew 'Ojuelegba' was a good song, but I didn't expect it to blow up the way that it did.

Wannabe was so huge. So big. So unexpected.

Television doesn't get any better than the second episode of 'Castle.'

The arrival of 'Star Wars' signalled the full absorption of the former counterculture into a new mainstream.

I love TV and am happy doing TV shows.

I started television in 2015.

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

Anything to do with the Beatles is very complicated.

The only way to stop the erosion in network television is to come up with shows that are very popular.

Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the fourth pillar.

I think TV is evolving, but on the other hand, there is a presence of regressive shows happening, but I choose to ignore that because I am part of a very different and challenging soap.

I look up to people like Michael Jackson because he set up pop culture.

Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.

A show like the 'Only Fool and Horses' Christmas special got 24 million viewers, so practically everyone in the country was watching. But of course it's a different world now, with so many channels. And those kind of figures are really difficult to achieve.