Television isn’t any longer the only way to fame, all you need is the internet to break into the game

I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’. He played my father on ‘Becker,’ and he’s still one of my heroes. Along...

By all standards, except for ‘Star Trek’ standards, 98 episodes of any television show is a wildly successful run.

I don’t think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don’t think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that’s what he...

In previous centuries, the Church was the great controller, dictating morality, stifling free expression and posing as conservator of all great art and music. Instead we have TV, doing just as good a job at...

I don’t watch that much television.

The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then asking the reporters to watch his drive. Well, that’s what you get if...

I do believe that we’re in a true golden era of television, and I think it started with ‘Hill Street.’

I am a man of science, not someone’s snuggle-bunny!

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

We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.

This means there is plenty of room in the marketplace for the phone companies to offer television.

That day, I started taking an interest in the bar’s television. We always kept it on. As the hours slid by in a cacophony of talk I kept watch, throwing in the occasional comment about...

Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can’t afford other diversions.

But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television.

We have a collective bargaining extension in place, long-term television contracts, and have undertaken many other strong elements in league and club operations. I am honored to have been commissioner since late 1989 and to...

Most of my work had been in theater, and I was jumping not just into television but ‘L.A. Law,’ which had all these megastars in it.

Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church.

I think all television has to be about relationships and I don’t think horror for the sake of it can work unless you’re able to ground it in some kind of relationship.

It’s a scary subject. It’s also four hours and already set for television. Those are three strikes.

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It’s helped me a lot.” I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider...

I don’t want to promote my own image either. I don’t like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

I started in television as a youngster and was 14 when I started acting professionally.

She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (television, food, religion); its appetite for poison (television, food, religion); and for the monstrous edifices of desire (television, food, religion):...

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that’s show business.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.

…la televisión condiciona fuertemente el proceso electoral, ya sea en la elección de los candidatos, bien en su modo de plantear la batalla electoral, o en la forma de ayudar a vencer al vencedor. Además,...

The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We know only...

Anderson is one of the most distinctive voices anywhere on television. He has broken through the clutter with his candor, his humanity and his emotional connection to the most pressing stories of our time. As...

I don’t embrace excuses. I embrace SOLUTIONS

Today’s generation didn’t want to watch ancient actors reciting the same tired lines. They wanted to see themselves reflected onscreen –rude, raw, entitled. These kids needed to believe that they themselves were only one daring,...

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

This is the lesson of all great television commercials: They provide a slogan, a symbol or a focus that creates for viewers a comprehensive and compelling image of themselves. In the shift from party politics...

Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.

You should’ve thought of that before becoming a fireman.””Thought!” he said. “Was I given a choice? I was raised to think the best thing in the world is not to read. The best thing is...

If TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer, it would be justified.

One of the big headlines is that network TV is strong. Overall, television usage among total viewers is up about 4 percent … and the growth in cable is not coming at the expense of...

It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.

Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I’ll be damned if Rick Perry didn’t take me up on that.

And I think he may have a little different view about television, something that I have advocated for more than a decade in the court, … He’s a new generation.

The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.

Television won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

5. Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still really young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into...

Ellen has demonstrated her extraordinary ability to connect with the television viewing audience. … We are delighted to have her back.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Key element of television programming, the characters must watch the programming themselves.

Television really has been my vehicle. I don’t get played on the radio much, so I’ve relied on TV a lot.

When I was your age I knew how to listen to television and learn a few things.

There is nothing wrong with entertainment. As some psychiatrist once put it, we all build castles in the air. The problems come when we try to live in them. The communications media of the late...