Jensen Ackles Quotes

My strategy isn't just to get the biggest audience; it's to get a loyal audience.

When picking a show, I took into consideration who my fans are. Let's be honest, Buffy was a mid-season replacement on The WB, based on a failed movie. If it wasn't for the outpouring of fans and critics supporting us, we would have been canceled after four episodes. Sure, you want to stretch and you want to do different things, but it's also our job to think about who our fans are and what they want to see. Ultimately, that's why we do.

I'm always aware of who my core audiences are and I serve that niche.

If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.

When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.

I think HBO seems to have an extraordinary clever knack of catching the pulse of its audience. It really, really knows its audience.

Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.

I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.

There's certainly pressure to find your audience early. You need to paint the picture, but it's tough trying to find the balance between a show that people can tune in on any given week while still grabbing the people who are there every week.

I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the channel. There are hundreds of channels and entirely other things to do besides TV. And if you make a bad television show there's no reason for the audience to come back the following week.

I've developed an audience over the years and I don't want to loose them.

Nine per cent of my viewers are men, of which the majority is, I think, 45 to 50. I like to tell myself it's just my dad watching.

Now that I know what goes into making a pilot, keeping it on the air, and keeping your fans, I'm at a point now where I do a pilot and just hope for the best. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out.

I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.

When in doubt, punt!

I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number.

At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.

If people are given quality stuff to watch, they'll watch it.

If you make compelling television, they will come.

You never know whether the subject matter will click with the audience at that particular time. I wish there was a formula, you know, 'That plus that equals success.'

I still think what the consumers are looking for is, number one, entertainment. They want to be entertained. It can be a liberal, a libertarian, or a conservative. It can be far-left or far-right. If they are entertained, they are going to tune in.

I would hope to have some of the same audience that Oprah has earned. And I would love to earn that, as well.

You can't really be super conservative and continue to keep your audience, but at least the audience that we attract comes with a certain level of naughtiness.

I'm not against making new fans, but I'm not going to go out of my way to pander to someone and try to make them like me; that's not who we are. It's not as if we're fighting to find an audience - we have our audience, and anybody else is definitely welcome.

It's too easy to underestimate your audience. But it's not rocket science: bad plays don't get people on seats; good plays do.