Sofia Helin Quotes

Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.

I've been such a fan of American TV.

Most of the TV shows I've done have all been in the U.S.

I guess working on 'Mad Men' turned me onto AMC and really got me watching the network, and so with that I got a good idea of the type of show they like to produce.

I came up during the formative years of TV.

Generally, I am losing faith in telly, as we do have good dramas but not as many as there should be.

TV's been good to me.

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.

People forget that in the early '70s, Saturday was the most-watched night of television of the week. It was where you found 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' and 'All in the Family.'

I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life.

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

I like transformative TV.

I don't really watch television, and I don't watch these shows that promote shows.

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

There are only about three really, really good sitcoms on the air.

You never know what's going to happen with television these days.

There's so many more better TV shows than films coming out, in my opinion.

In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.

These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.

In our first season we had a 22 rating. Today Seinfeld, a hit show, gets a 15. Lost in Space actually had a bigger audience than Star Trek got at that time.

I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.

I'm a regular part of the TV audience world, and I know that I like shows that I would watch. And this is a series that I definitely would watch. And some episodes are better than others.

Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on the tube. 'Survivor' and 'X Factor' get twice the ratings.

You know what shows today are missing? Stars.

There's a pace in TV I like.