Viewer Numbers Quotes

They say 15 million people are watching the show, but what does that mean, you know? It's not until I'm accosted on the street that I understand!

We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel.

Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences.

NBC programs great shows; it just doesn't have the eyeballs CBS does.

Have I ever presented a programme I don't watch? Well, I've done loads of programmes that no one else watched!

I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.

If one percent of the people who take iPad or iPhone videos of concerts watch them, I'd be very surprised.

The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes.

I'm sure many more people saw 'Hush' in the first weekend it was on Netflix than saw 'Oculus' in theatres.

I've avoided doing a network comedy, because I wouldn't get my own way. Even though it would get more viewers, it wouldn't be mine.

I don't look at ratings when they come out in the afternoon before the show because I'm focused on that day's show, but I do see the overall numbers.

Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof.

Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on the tube. 'Survivor' and 'X Factor' get twice the ratings.

When a show fails to destroy the competition-and it can fail while attracting 20 million viewers-it is itself destroyed.

You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.

No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.

That's what people want to watch - somebody telling a story. So if you go in and tell a story that makes sense to them, that touches them, then they're going to watch; then they'll tell a friend and that type of thing. In terms of how many people are watching in a given week, it's more the advertiser's job, not mine.

Certainly 'Survivors,' when we put that series out, the second series dipped below 5 million for one of the episodes - all of a sudden, there's no recommission, and I think that's dreadful.

While 'Teachers' may have had its following, it was on late-night Channel Four, whereas 'EastEnders' was seen by millions and millions of people. I certainly don't have the cache to sell a programme like that, and certainly nobody's coming up and asking me to.

If somebody's cat happens to turn on the TV, my numbers can double. It's almost unrelated to what's really happening.