Fernsehen macht die Klugen klüger und die Dummen dümmer.

Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.

For good health, watch what you eat. For a good head, watch what you watch.

Wenn ich alleine fernsehe, habe ich meine eigenen Regeln und schalte nur ab, nachdem etwas Gutes passiert ist, oder so, dass die letzten Worte, die man hört, einen nicht verletzen. Man will doch nicht abschalten,...

I think it just looks absurd for us constantly to shovel out tax breaks when executives go on television and say they aren’t needed, … They don’t need tax incentives.

You think what I’m doing is cruel, sadistic, but it isn’t… you aren’t even a real person, you don’t understand.”Alecto said nothing back to her.The television screen faded to black and Mandy just sat there...

I had to start watching [The Real Housewives of New Jersey] every week because, well, my IQ was just too high. I mean seriously up there. What can I tell you? After watching every episode,...

What they want to censor, what they want to regulate are the most popular television shows. We’re mistaking the will of the PTC for the will of the public. … It really is a form...

I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it’s my job to overcome it.

There is one category of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.

I would really like to do a movie. Schedule-wise I don’t know when exactly, but I think it would be great to do a Portlandia movie. Some of my favorite television shows have done it...

One of the things I like most about doing a television series is that I really don’t have any idea what is going to happen, … I love that.

I think that television and the web are fusing anyway, so I think that ultimately whatever I do, I’m going to blend the two forms.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

It’s not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.

I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.

It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing.

Do you know we are being led toSlaughters by placid admirals& that fat slow generals are gettingObscene on young bloodDo you know we are ruled by t.v.

Many decisions about the form and content of news programs are made on the basis of information about the viewer, the purpose of which is to keep the viewers watching so that they will be...

I think it sort of dawns on you that if you’re not gigging constantly you’re not actually relevant. You may be relevant to a different part of the media now, to television commissioners and editors,...

[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of...

Immediately after the terror attacks, we were shell-shocked and stopped doing everything but watching television,

You know, you spend your childhood watching TV, assuming that at some point in the future everything you see will one day happen to you: that you too will win a Formula One race, hop...

They have a television on in the lounge and I’ll duck in a few times between floods to check things out. It’s exciting to see Russ going for Olympic gold.

‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ was the best television, the best cast, the best-written television show ever.

Hey, Geekoid!” yelled Duncan Dougal, “Why do you read so much? Don’t you know how to watch TV?

At first, I was shocked that Diane could even suggest this family reunion [on television], and then I realized this is just the way of the world, or at least the way of fin de...

I won’t say that all senior citizens who can’t master technology should be publicly flogged, but if we made an example of one or two, it might give the others incentive to try harder.

Celebrity mentality sometimes misguides us to make wrong choices. That’s why T.V screens sometimes lie to us!

In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully, but with television you get to take your time and just...

Mr. Rove wanted to come out and have a meeting with the top executives of the studios, the television networks, theater owners, to see what ideas we have that would enable this war to be...

One of the things that’s driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is...

The essence of physical education in Naperville 203 is teaching fitness instead of sports. The underlying philosophy is that if physical education class can be used to instruct kids how to monitor and maintain their...

Good fantasy fiction: … explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters’ individual experiences to speak personally to us all.

I’m the idiot box. I’m the TV. I’m the all-seeing eye and the world of the cathode ray. I’m the boob tube. I’m the little shrine the family gathers to adore.’ ‘You’re the television? Or...

I heard about the bombings the same way everyone else heard about them, from the television or radio. I did not order them but was very glad for what happened to the Americans there.

Everybody who is watching television or is in the stands always thinks his shot is going down. We feel the same way. It’s great to have him back and hitting great shots at the end.

Texting and phone calls, fireworks, blends, café au lait, and music. Yesterday’s television. Work and beer. The neighbor’s dog, or those strange flowers, the way it smells at Maisen. Those ordinary things I talk about...

I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.

Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding ‘like Princess Di’) but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine...

The amount of educational programming on television today is simply desensitizing. The only reason left to go to school is to see gun violence.

TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it’s fine because you are damaged.

Sci-fi fans really have a commitment to the characters even as much as the actors do. There’s a synergy between making television and who gets to watch it.

I’m always interested in trying to stay on the cutting edge of television storytelling. To be slightly in front, pushing for the next new thing.

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a...

For me, TV and broke go together. Not as in, The TV is broken, but more of noticing that most people who watch too much TV are broke.

El problema es que el niño es una esponja que registra y absorbe indiscriminadamente todo lo que ve […] El niño formado en la imagen se reduce a ser un hombre que no lee, y,...

Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some people don’t. That’s fine.

So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television’s potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of...

We must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox.