Television Content Quotes

I think cable TV in the United States is amazing right now. It's reinvented television, really. What's going on in the States with some of these cable shows like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Mad Men' is amazing stuff.

Sometimes when I'm reading a script, I can't quite believe that this is going on television alongside cereal commercials.

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life.

For me, TV had always been a medium for entertainment.

When television is good, nothing - not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers - nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there for a day without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

Television is not a gimmick.

There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.

When we started with 'Big Brother' and created the reality genre, no one could ever foresee that there was so much space in the genre that it could deliver so many formats. There will be periods where there is not enough new stuff to keep the genre alive. But it will never die.

As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.

TV's great. I think the best stuff is happening on television.

All you see on television are debased images.

Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.

Generally, I am losing faith in telly, as we do have good dramas but not as many as there should be.

TV isn't like films; you can't rest on your laurels.

You know, we've got so much on Bravo and coming up on Bravo, and I think we have so much more going on than 'The Real Housewives.' And I think 'The Real Housewives' is a great, you know, great addition to the portfolio. I think it brings a lot of viewers under our umbrella. And I think they stay and sample other shows.

Some of the most provocative TV that I'm inspired by is in the U.K. You guys take it for granted, but in America, we can't do it.

I definitely applaud Netflix and all of those guys, whether it's Hulu or whoever, for doing original programming.

The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

With 'Nighty Night' series one, Oprah Winfrey's channel took it on, so she must have liked it.

I can say that. I have a television show.

It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.

We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.

I don't ordinarily do television because I don't like some of the things projected on it.

American television really is pathetic.