Television Analysis Quotes

It's interesting: I went 25 years without watching a single television show. I was one of those people, because I was so inside how a television show was made, if I would turn on somebody else's show, I would sit there and analyze it, like, 'Oh, so they had four hours in this location and had to get out and the number of set-ups, etc.'

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

I watch 'Watchmen', and I wish I was in that writers room, so I could figure out what they're doing, story-breaking-wise. I've never seen a television show like that.

I got some experience appearing as a guest on several news channels, and I thought over the years I would be able to mix practicing law and writing with providing analysis on TV. I didn't know that would lead to a full-time opportunity that would take me away from my law practice. When MSNBC made me an offer to join, I jumped at it.

Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open.

I watch a lot of TV, and I'd like to think what I watch is good TV.

There's times where you can watch television and say, 'Look at that cheesy thing they're doing for ratings,' and you're right.

I don't get to like-watch anything, much less hate-watch. I don't have time for that.

I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.

I never really thought of myself as a TV critic. I was presenting TV before I was writing about it.

I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.