Show Success Quotes

What I do know is how difficult it is in this industry to get a show on the air. There's so many different stages: getting a script bought by the network, then getting a pilot made and having that pilot go to series, and then, when that series gets on the air, having people watch it.

And after four years, I thoroughly enjoy Hawaii and the success of the show.

TNT is a really great company to do a show for. They really believe in their shows and give shows a lot of support. They have it all worked out before you start shooting. Everybody's on the same page.

The industry is such - there is no guarantee that a show would work only because it is airing.

'Jersey Boys' has been the most amazing experience ever and has exposed an entire new audience to the music. It's great to see people of all ages coming to the show.

I did an episode on the TV show 'Awake,' and I thought, 'Wow, that's really hard.' To do that so fast and to do that, if it's very successful, for nine months out of the year, for a bunch of good years, that's challenging. But, it was interesting. It's a good show. You'd have to have a very good character, I guess.

Successful shows will always generate great business deals in the future.

I can't tell you how proud I am of all the Total Divas and just how excited I am about how well the show is doing.

There was one family drama on television when we took out 'The Fosters' - 'Parenthood'. Everybody thought it sounded like a great show, but nobody thought there was a home for it.

Not every show needs to reach the same size of audience, or same width, of a 'Sopranos'.

Let's be honest, any show will live or die based on how good the characters are, how good the actors are, how complicated the relationships are, how grounded they are and how much heart they have.

A stage show's popularity depends on its organisers and the public, but primarily on the performer.

Yeah, I'd done a bunch of pilots. Some that had gone for a while. One that went for 13 episodes. But I had never been on a show that had lasted more than that.

Before the start of the 2000 season, 'C.S.I.' wasn't supposed to be the hit. We all thought it would be 'The Fugitive.'

In our time producers were the main pillar of any show.

Nobody knew if the pilot would even get picked up because it had two gay lead characters, which has never happened before. And now every show has at least two gay characters, if not many more.

Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding.

It's hard to be a breakout show and stay on top. We're like the flagship show over here.

I got cast on ER, I knew I'd be playing a great character and I knew the show was great.

If they'll have me and the show does well, I could do this another two or three years.

The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times.

But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.

You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

We made 16 episodes of Cracker and I loved doing the show, but unfortunately no one was watching us.

Love from the fans is flattering. That's what makes the show. They are so essential to everything involved with 'Once Upon a Time.'