Cable Network Quotes

There's no better place to do a longform project than HBO. I loved the creative teams I got a chance to work with.

We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.

AMC is a fantastic network that does diverse programming, and does it at a really good level and of great quality.

I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV.

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

You really can't turn on TLC without seeing us.

I hate Showtime, I can't stand those guys.

Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.

I'm very committed to and interested in CNN's journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew up. But I do have a fondness for subscription television.

I don't get to watch Futurama, until it's on TV.

I am working as a co-host on a show called, 'Lifetime Live.' It's on the Lifetime cable network. My co-host is Deborah Roberts. She's a news correspondent with 20/20. We are billed as a news and information show. It's fun.

E! has the possibility of growing exponentially, and yes, I believe it could be a top 10 network.

'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

With a strong foundation in scripted programming firmly established by 'Army Wives' and 'Drop Dead Diva,' Lifetime is aggressively expanding its drama series development plate with powerful programs from creative auspices who have strong pedigrees in producing stand-out programming.

Like yes, I was part of a launch of an entire cable television network and we all worked so hard getting prepared for it and rehearsed so many times.

I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet.

While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen - because they're part of the same story. It's just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They're at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is further upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided, instead, that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe.

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

I don't control the schedule of the networks. We have three of our debates that are on network television, and those are on Saturday nights. We have three other debates that are during the week. And unfortunately, broadcast network programming is less flexible than cable network programming.

It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad,' those shows are really the premiere shows on television right now.

I really loved the 'Sopranos' but didn't have HBO. So someone would send me tapes of the show with three or four episodes. I would watch one episode and go: 'Oh my God, I've got to watch one more.' I'd watch the whole tape and champ at the bit for the next one.

In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn't know where it was going.

I actually love the Discovery Channel.

It seems I am more beloved on a reality show from an extended cable network than I am in social circles in my own city.