Television Audiences Quotes

TV's been good to me.

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.

I also have always felt that television has a huge potential for the kinds of audiences that some films would never dream or ever be able to have. So that potential is very exciting to me.

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

We did 'Friends Like These' on BBC and 'Slap Bang' on ITV which didn't work as well.

I like transformative TV.

But reality television is here to stay.

'Balika' is not my type of show, so I don't watch it.

With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite.

At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.

From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show.

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

Sitcoms are bad in so many ways it's hard to say why. They can hype things as much as they want, but it's all crap, no matter how many TV Guide cover stories there are.

The future of American film lies on television.

We've all but abandoned soaps in our own culture. I lost my beloved 'Guiding Light' in 2009, and 'One Life to Live' was just the latest casualty to fall beneath the programming axes.

It's funny - I was a big fan of 'The Sopranos.' It became kind of a threat to 'The X-Files' in a way because they could play with language, character, and story in ways that we never could because of the limitations of network television.

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

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.

We are in this amazing age of television where there's an incredible amount and an incredible quality of television, of long-form narrative.

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

Sitcom is the best gig in show business because it's easy hours, nine to five.

The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer society, television audiences and news magazine readerships, who vote with money at the cash counter rather than with ballot paper at the polling boot. These huge and passive electorates are wide open to any opportunist using the psychological weaponry of fear and anxiety, elements that are carefully blanched out of the world of domestic products and consumer software.