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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond
That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television.
Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.
Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.
I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative of the film.
People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.
I've done a lot of television in life, and I don't remember the last time that I felt so consistently happy [working with Jenji Kohan].
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.
I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.
For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.
I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow.
Now, you always know there's going to be some compromise when you're doing something for television, and especially network television.
There is no news media. There's simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the Democrat Party.
Even though I do a more traditional type of being funny on television, I still know a lot of comedians and stand-ups and improv actors.
They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.
I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
When you're doing a television series, unless you really pay attention to your life, it doesn't leave very much time for anything else.
Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
Series television is either a nightmare or the best thing in the whole world. It really depends on, I think, where you are in your life.
People seem generally happy to see their favorite world come to life, even if it it slightly changed to fit storytelling for television.
When television became popular, reality shows started coming up and with such reality shows, people got a platform to show their talent.
In some ways, TV is more regimented, but there is a level of professionalism that's very high, among the people that work in television.
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
Like sugar and, oh - let's say the most tabloidy and gossipy reality television programs - credit is, for millions, genuinely addictive.
I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.
I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God's joke.
Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.
I was more aware initially of shows like Tales of the Unexpected. And the BBC used to put on a lot of one-off, bizarre television plays.
I don’t think television will ever be perfected until the viewer can press a button and cause whoever is on the screen’s head to explode.
TV can be an acronym for television or transvestite. I prefer using it to describe the the latter. The former is strange and undignified.
Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
it was Tark's experience that TV addicts were usually addicted to something else as well. Food, booze, drugs, sex, money, take your pick.
Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation.
We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.
There's a little bit more of a freedom when you're doing radio play-by-play as opposed to television. I prefer the television side of it.
The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.
I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.
Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
I don't like to leave my children for long periods of time. It's made me more picky about roles that are close, especially on television.
Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do.
History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.
You have to treat every hour of television you're given like a $100 million movie, and with 'A.D.,' we stepped it up even a stage further.
I have had some good fortune in the world of television. I have had it late in life after many youthful struggles and a change of careers.
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
I think that as television is evolving, the line between TV and film is becoming more and more blurred. This is both a good and bad thing.
I no longer need a large television set in my vanity van and just go to Hotstar on my phone - it is much easier to watch everything there.