I think the semantics of mini-series for a network is that it has an end.
Sometimes when I'm reading a script, I can't quite believe that this is going on television alongside cereal commercials.
In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.
I do love TV as a medium.
I love the place 'Clone Wars' has on Netflix; it's very accessible, and I think it's great.
'Countdown' is family television.
Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.
It's funny: We have so many shows and so many channels and so many things to occupy people as entertainment, especially with a show like 'Scandal,' which is clearly a hit, with a lot of heat around it - but every once in a while, people will say, 'What are you doing?' and I'll say 'Scandal,' and they'll have no idea what I'm talking about.
Maybe now it's time to take some chances on TV and push the boundaries with what I can do on television.
I'm a big fan of TV.
I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.
I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life.
I love Channel 4 and Clerkenwell Films, they aren't afraid to take risks.
Television is not a gimmick.
For me, TV had always been a medium for entertainment.
When television is good, nothing - not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers - nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there for a day without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.
I don't have a TV licence. I don't watch except on catch-up.
Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.
Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.
My dad sat me in front of the TV, and instead of putting on Nick Jr. or something, he put me in front of 'Jailhouse Rock' and all the Elvis movies.
When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.
Television. That's where movies go when they die.
When you go to cable, there are no stations and no affiliates and they allow you to do your show.
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.
I don't know if TV is where I see my format working.
