Tv Decline Quotes

I like how TV used to be - 'Boys from the Blackstuff' and 'Play for Today', instead of 'Stars in Your Eyes' and 'Celebrity Come Cook With Me' or whatever. I hate all that stuff.

So-called reality TV, which dominates British channels, is destroying what made it cherishable to me and lots of others in the first place. I loved Alan Clarke, Ken Loach and Alan Bleasdale's work. In fact the first TV dramas I ever saw were 'Screen Twos' produced by David Thompson, who also produced a lot of Alan Clarke.

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.

I was asked to do 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here,' and I said: 'No thank you.'

No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.

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

I left Britain in the mid-1990s when TV was going down the cundy - another good Dundee word - because I wanted a film career. But as I get older, I find myself being drawn back to my roots, and I'm loving it.

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.

This must be such a relief for the TV executives managing a business in decline, suffering from a thousand cuts from social media and other new platforms. Trump arrived on the scene as a kind of manna from hell.

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none.

I'm on the Internet a lot more than I watch TV and most everybody I know is, and yet if you watch most late-night talk shows, it's as if it doesn't even exist.

Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.

We tried our damnedest to make it a special entertainment, but I'll admit I'm a contributor to the decline in TV standards.

America 2012: The Learning Channel has HoneyBooBoo, History Channel has PawnStars: and the Science Channel has PumpkinChunkin

Towards the end, there weren't that many people watching 'Glee.' So I don't know how many people would then watch a spinoff. We're off the air for a reason.

TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet.