Reading requires actual concentration. If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sentence, you could lose the entire story. With most TV shows, though, you didn’t have to concentrate at all. You could space...

There’s no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there’s much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.

I’m not setting ‘Jericho’ up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment.

I had plenty of offers to do sponsorships and TV commercials, but it’s just not in me. I would love to get that out of me, but I just don’t feel comfortable with it.

The idea of being on TV 24 hours a day and people seeing the real me… No.

TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation.

There is nothing we can’t do. So it’s just the fact that we’re doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won’t touch, that we’re satirists.

When I was off TV, people would ask me to please come back, which I think was their way of saying, ‘There’s nothing out there for us.’

I’m so not interesting in having to try and make something out of foil.”What, you didn’t like the poncho with wraparound leggings?”It was beyond hideou- wait a minute. You watch that show?”My mom loves it.”But...

I don’t watch reality TV.

My TV’s remote control didn’t have a source of energy, so I poured coffee in it. Now I can read any book I want.

I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world.

I couldn’t bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.

The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.

But aliens? There are TV shows about them. There are books and movies and more. The media indoctrinates you to them until people are so desensitized they don’t flinch at seeing aliens on TV or...

My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop for Larry King’s TV show. There’s an ‘I-want-to-do-all-things-at-once’ kind of theme to it.

Reality TV, although I’m a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.

I don’t care if I never do another TV show in my life.

In this image-driven age, wildlife filmmakers carry a heavy responsibility. They can influence how we think and behave when we’re in nature. They can even influence how we raise our kids, how we vote and...

I don’t think I’d come off well on TV. But if you ever see me on, my advice is to add more bleach and keep scrubbing the screen.

I like how small you can be on TV.

I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.

I was scripting for a series on the Arts programme which was shown very late on a Sunday evening, and I was sent off to get the low down on several up and coming musicians...

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

While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.

‘Why are you yelling at the television when you know they cannot hear you?’ ‘You wouldn’t understand,’ said Asher, his gaze locked on the screen. ‘It’s a human thing.’

A major determining factor by which a superior human can be isolated from his average counterparts is his very isolation—the degree to which he naturally removes himself from mass-media input and stimuli. You cannot be...

Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.

We don’t have friends, so we watch ‘Friends’ on TV.

I’m not a TV guy. I’m a restaurant chef and a businessman.

I don’t really enjoy watching reality TV.

I’m part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.

I’ve never been driven to just be a celebrity or just get me on TV. Never ever. What’s always driven me is being successful and being good at what I do.

Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as ‘the show.’

What he knows now is that guilt isn’t the only reason people commit suicide. Sometimes you can just get bored with afternoon TV.

‘Rome’ is vital to HBO TV empire

I made a record album in 1960 and it exploded, and I got all these offers for TV.

If people are going to watch TV, let’s give them something coherent with actual dialogue.

I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials.

If your TV is broken, don’t get a new one—get a new hobby: reading.

You know how mainstream news is interspersed with product ads? Well, why aren’t all the shows made entirely out of the stuff? I find commercials more believable, and I’d be more inclined to watch.

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

We all know that technology has advanced to the point of watching TV online.

They intend to make people’s very appetites the next weapon of uncountable destruction. They intend that your people will lust themselves into oblivion in front of little boxes of changing light. Addictive light. A light...

‘Twin Peaks’ is my favorite American TV show.

I was 18 when I got my first TV job.

Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the ’50s.

Audiences see personalities on shows interacting with wild animals as if they were not dangerous or, at the other extreme, provoking them to give viewers an adrenaline rush. Mostly, the animals just want to be...

I think someone should invent an edible remote control, to go along with TV dinners.

I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.