Ed Weeks Quotes

The TV season is a year-long thing now, and the networks are starting to look at it that way, thanks to cable, satellites, and competition.

Television can be a very fickle place.

Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.

You know how trends go with television. Next year, the networks might not be open to taking risks.

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

When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion.

The truth is, we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool, but that's not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That's the reality of it.

Overnight ratings are dead. It's just not the way TV is sold any more.

When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons.

I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch.

I think television is a big commitment, so it has to be something that you're really excited about and something that you want to potentially commit a lot of time to.

A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to make a living, the media could focus on the broad country. And most people had no choice about getting political information. It was there at 6:30 whether you wanted it or not.

I knew I wanted to do a show on NBC - it's rooted in its history; it's part rooted in nostalgia and part rooted in the potential of it. For me, there was no other choice.

For network TV, you obviously have to appeal to a wide viewership.

Television is really fertile ground, and it's because of platforms like Netflix and Hulu and, of course, the cable channels like HBO and Showtime.

My goal was always to take a talk show to the network. I never wanted to be on MSNBC.

TV is a level playing field, and you're competing for eyeballs.

The TV mini-series is kind of a lost genre because the networks have given up on it.

I grew up watching television as a kid. It was always something I wanted to pursue.

There seems to be a vulnerability at the networks in late night. They are losing more and more audience, particularly young viewers who are now looking at cable television. 'Tonight' is an old show. CBS has reruns, and having a public affairs series like 'Nightline' on ABC is a big mistake.

I'm not here to say that I want to change the TV industry.

I started television in 2015.

We always had one eye on doing Saturday night TV even when we were back doing mornings. That's where we wanted to go to get a bigger audience.

Television is not an easy medium, as keeping the audience glued to the TV screens day after day is something which requires a lot of effort.

Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops.