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I secretly understood the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is-its irresistible charm-a fire.
The main thing we've done is look beyond television. It's not only television other media affect sexual behavior.
It's a happy occasion and, unlike most of the television we watch, there's no violence involved.
Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.
Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
Television has tremendous power over our lives.
It makes the channel a major factor in sports television. They are now the authoritative, 247, TVvideo platform for golf.
The new generation of television viewers grew up with an expectation of video on handheld devices. The technology has triggered a massive commitment to creativity in a very short period of time. This is not illusory or a passing fad. This is the real deal.
We're a blue collar type of team. I guess watching it on television sometimes doesn't do our team justice.
Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.
I think Connecticut is a very easy game. They're playing to be number one in the country. It's senior afternoon. It's on national television. It should be an easy game.
Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.
We were always working overtime, throwing things together. Every first year is always hectic enough, because you have producers and network executives fighting it out over what they think you should do. With all the belief that science fiction was just not meant for TV, they didn't understand what they had until it was too late-and by then they had a hit show, the highest rated sci-fi show of all time on network television.
I had written movie scores, television series, played with other people. Carl had done the same with Asia, with other bands, everything. We weren't about to entrust Greg automatically with a production credit.
The job of being a television show-runner has evolved and there's all these new aspects to it. It's good because there are additional avenues open for content. We have ways of expressing ideas we have for the show that wouldn't fit into the television series. But it's hard to manage our time. And we honestly put most of our time and attention on the show itself - that still is the bread and butter of our existence.
I don't like this reality television, I have to be honest, ... I think real people should not be on television. It's for special people like us, people who have trained and studied to appear to be real.
I watched some of the original series when I was a kid, and watched some of the NEXT GENERATION shows and I've seen some of the movies, not all of them, but I wasn't any great aficionado. In all candour, I suspect my own aesthetic and what interests me about the medium of television -- does not lean towards STAR TREK.
Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there.
As if we don't have enough violence on television.
Recently I've been listening to Mahler it's beautiful stuff. I just saw a performance of Mahler's Eighth Symphony on television, and it was awesome. The music was so gorgeous I wasn't just crying tears, I was sobbing.
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.
I'm having a great time. Other than the crowd size, the television and the interest from the media, there's no difference than playing or coaching at Iowa or Michigan.
Cable television is more of a recognized medium and a very good advertising vehicle. It took it a long time to be recognized as such. Internet advertising is getting there faster.
I'm thrilled that Donald Trump will be guest starring on 'Days of our Lives,' ... Not only is Mr. Trump the biggest star on primetime television, but he also intimately knows drama from his many business ventures to his weekly boardrooms on 'The Apprentice.' Little does he know that the drama on 'Days of our Lives' is often more intense
It's kind of funny, because once in a while I'll watch an NHL game on television and a couple of nights later I'm working with a referee who was calling an NHL game a few nights earlier. I'm having a lot of fun doing it right now. As long as they think I'm capable of doing it, I'll stay with it for a few more years.
You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.
There's a huge change in the economics of television,
You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!
Yeah, I had done a lot of television in the '60s and I was dying to get into the movies. I was just sure I should be in the movies.
Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
Television ads are very expensive - and it's been the opinion of folks working with me, and my opinion, that the kind of campaign that I've been running has been one where I've been more in touch with the voters themselves. And putting money into those types of efforts rather than TV ads seems to make sense at this point.
When our employees come to work, they do so to perform the duties of their job, not to watch television.
We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.
The president has said on television he will defend his government down to the last gun cartridge. This is very alarming.
When I went to live television, I loved it. But television was so new and undeveloped that actors had to concede to the equipment.
That opening bar summoned children all over the world to the television set. Its purity is its strength.
I think part of the reason why you've never seen a show set at a major international airport on television before is because it's a really complicated proposition. We'll be shooting at a number of different locations to create a composite of what ultimately is LAX.
That is very much going to be at the forefront of all the new labor negotiations, particularly with the Writers Guild, because writers are at the center of television series production and all of these new ideas are ultimately writer-based. Right now, our involvement in this is about being involved in the cutting edge of these emerging technologies and learning how it works.
But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.
petrified of television. They thought it was going to be the end of their industry.
They are setting up a separate entity to provide video services, cable television, telecommunications services, and internet services. So they will be a competitor to any cable company or any phone company in this area.
There's no reason why CBS News can't be an online brand, a Tiffany brand there. But you don't do it by saying the future lies in television.
The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.
If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.
Taxpayers bought Miami-Dade residents thousands of television sets, air conditioners and other appliances,
I think that we have to look at television, we have to look at cable, we have to look at the gratuitous levels of violence in our theaters. We as parents have to look at the Internet.
You feel like it's not just a guy up there reading copy that people prepared for him to read. That's a good quality and increasingly rare in the television climate of our times. He's something a lot more than just a talking head.
The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.
I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.
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