Television Viewers Quotes

We'll never see national shows with 45 shares again.

Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.

Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.

I love Leon and June and I love 'Gogglebox,' it's a brilliant show.

I do remember a time and I can quite easily imagine a time without - looking to a future without 'Emmerdale.'

You know all those young people watching Comedy Central love 'Frasier.'

You know, we've got so much on Bravo and coming up on Bravo, and I think we have so much more going on than 'The Real Housewives.' And I think 'The Real Housewives' is a great, you know, great addition to the portfolio. I think it brings a lot of viewers under our umbrella. And I think they stay and sample other shows.

Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.

Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series.

Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore.

I still watch 'Idol,' and it's still the No. 1 show, so obviously I'm not the only one who loves to sit at home and be entertained.

You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights.

If you put me in 'South Park,' that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.

We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel.

NBC gives comedies a chance to find their legs.

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

Before 'Countdown,' I'd never even met anyone who was on TV.

These people that watch our MTV shows, they're not music fans. They're people that are lazy on their couch and want to watch funny videos or whatever.

'Gogglebox' is a show where you watch people watch television.

I can't imagine TV without 'Big Brother.' When C4 got rid of it I rang the helpline in 'Heat' magazine. I was that devastated.

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

I think any show after the Super Bowl will have huge numbers.

There's people who watch shows while they're preparing their dinners, and they don't want to focus, and they don't want to be challenged, and whatever. And then there's people who want to really sit down and get into a character in a world, and feel like they're expanding, or they have complex relationships, or whatever.

First and foremost, Howard Cosell is sports. There are all these people, these fans, who claim that when Cosell does a game on television, they turn off the sound on the TV and listen to the radio broadcast. Oh, sure. You probably know critics in your neighborhood who vow the same thing. Well, too bad for them.

I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.