Quotes About Viewership

'Monday Night Football' is a competitor to 'Monday Night Raw.'

But the whole viewership of 'Balika Vadhu' is more than all shows of mine put together. The show has a lot of reach and that has worked for me.

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.

Success of a film released through DTH depends on word-of-mouth publicity.

The response to Season 1 of 'Firing Line' has been a thrill for everyone involved with the show.

You have a finite amount of people who watch at a certain time every day. But when you have that kind of success that 'Outnumbered Overtime' continues to have, it's gotta be a broader audience. I'm really thrilled about that.

I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.

Everyone may not go and buy a ticket to watch a movie, but everyone has a television at home. It definitely has a huge reach and a huge connect with the audience.

We have this sort of tacit censorship, which is the ratings system, and it's directly tied to box office, so it is censorship. Like, if you make an R-rated movie, you know that only a certain amount of people are going to go see it under any circumstance.

A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.

Television is in a different time because of reality television, so it's not as exciting.

I've been a huge fan of the cable network FX for a very, very long time. I think their brand of comedy is incredible. For me, as an audience member, that's a go-to channel.

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it

Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?

But reality television is here to stay.

Reality TV killed the British television industry.

The Amazon lot are perfectly reasonable, level-headed people who just want to make TV programmes. I don't think they are the enemy of the BBC or the other way round. It's not a war; these things can coexist. We can have Amazon and Netflix and the BBC and BT Sport, and people can make choices. That's what modern life is all about.

I wasn't a 'Battlestar' fan, but I had a lot of respect for the show. I had a lot of friends who worked on the show, and I had seen a few episodes. but I was more attracted to it from afar, from the respect and awards it had received to the loyal viewership that it had. That piqued my interest a lot when the opportunity for 'Caprica' arose.

I think people have an idea of what Fox News is. If people don't watch Fox News, then it's just a caricature, it's not real, they have it in their heads that it's something very different than what it actually is.

If there's something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.

The way cinema has grown I think, doesn't matter if its Hindi or South. People watch all languages.

I think that happens every five years or so when 'Friends' moves to a different channel. I think basically everybody has seen it now. It's so good, and timeless. Actually I don't know if it's timeless, I haven't seen it for years.

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.