Joan Van Ark Quotes

Year Two is a critical year for any television show.

A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

I miss the cast and crew of 'Supernatural' immensely. I know it's a cliche to say your cast and crew are like your family, but it's really the case there.

I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.

I've never had a series that's gone past 12 episodes.

I would love it if 'Community' could have a trajectory like '30 Rock' and choose when to go out.

I've always had a show that went seven episodes or 13 episodes or whatever. And I've never had a show that's gone past a first season. It really is a lot of work.

I'm feeling very lucky to be on 'GH.' It's kind of cool to be part of the fight to keep the show on the air. I hope I can help contribute to that.

I feel like, with a television show, you're always biting your nails hoping you're going to get that next season.

The roster of 'Lucha Underground' would definitely be excited about a fifth season. Same thing with the producers and everybody.

Normally we go in, we do a series and then that's it, we're axed!

Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.

So many articles said, ''China Beach' is uncancellable,' but when they dragged it on, I started to have doubts.

I can't work in Indian serials, as they are too long... they run for years.

Housewives' was a very... I had so much anxiety on that show. It was so much drama all the time.

I was a diehard fan of '24' since the beginning. But being on the show, there was stuff I never thought about as a viewer, like, wow, it's going to be a single day for 10 months out of your life - you have to look exactly the same every day.

I'd worked with Matt Strevens on 'Adventure in Space and Time' and he's a great friend of mine.

I feel like I don't have much of a preference. With TV, it's just a longer process, so you need to be more sure that you really want to be involved in it for a longer time than you would be with film.

Any show in its first season goes through multiple changes. There is little or no difference to changing the cast on a talk show.

Honestly, it's a sad truth, but whenever a show is about to go off air, you start getting hints because the work environment and quality changes.

In the case of 'Game Of Thrones,' I've been to set a couple of times, and it's really exciting and inspiring for me to see the set and the actors in action, meet them and talk to them, so it definitely helps. If I can go to set, I will.

The development process is not that simple... When I started working at Fox in '92, the company had decided that dramas were dead: they weren't viable businesses and because newsmagazines were so efficient to produce and financially so much more tolerable than a drama. So that year, our company developed very few dramas.

But the whole viewership of 'Balika Vadhu' is more than all shows of mine put together. The show has a lot of reach and that has worked for me.

I wrote on the fourth season of 'Arrested Development.'

I was offered the role of the Reverse Flash on 'The Flash' by Executive Producer Andrew Kreisberg and Greg Berlanti, who co-created the series with Andrew. I said 'yes' immediately because I had worked with those guys before on the show 'Eli Stone.'