Quotes About Viewership

Everybody is talking about cord cutting. It's not about the cord. It's the content.

TV creates good viewership because it generates interest by being entertaining.

All television is children's television.

I'm sure many more people saw 'Hush' in the first weekend it was on Netflix than saw 'Oculus' in theatres.

My film with Pawan Kalyan sir, 'Vakeel Saab,' came in theatres and collected humongous figures in the first weekend. It was a celebration for people. Then it released on an OTT, and people still watched it, it garnered high TRPs.

I hate when people talk about weekly wrestling shows that are lesser than pay-per-views. The fact is pay-per-views are longer, but the wrestling will be just as intense and exciting.

The entire season, the show had never been aired for more than three weeks. You can't get an audience that way. They would never promo the show for the next week.

What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime.

I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it.

Of course I pay attention to the Premier League - it's one of the greatest leagues in Europe.

TV companies always eat, pretty good.

There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.

Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.

On 'Baskets,' I'm not sure what the demographic is.

The U.K. and the U.S. are very different countries, and it really shows in the television.

The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.

I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes.

Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News ' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News' haven't changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren't watching.

While 'Teachers' may have had its following, it was on late-night Channel Four, whereas 'EastEnders' was seen by millions and millions of people. I certainly don't have the cache to sell a programme like that, and certainly nobody's coming up and asking me to.

I think 'Party Down' found its audience primarily on Netflix and stuff like that, and primarily after it had been cancelled.

You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

We're in this really different world of television where everybody is binge watching, and it almost doesn't matter where you're airing.

I can't differentiate between mass and class films.

When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion.