Quotes About Television

The TV commercials, which are endless and fairly crass, gave birth to Brock, the bad-lawyer character in Razor Girl. In real life you can find even sleazier examples than him.

ROD RODDENBERRY There was a great quote that D. C. Fontana said about Nichelle Nichols and having a black officer on the bridge and what my father said to that. Apparently, he would get letters from the TV stations in the South saying they won't show Star Trek because there is a black officer, and he'd say, "Fuck off, then.

The producers broke one of their own rules: Star Trek has become pop culture, but there is never pop culture within Star Trek, because it punctures the reality.

I used to call it "Roddenberry's Box," and I loved being in it, because the restrictions forced us to be more creative than going into the routine melodramas that we often see in SF television.

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

Unless we get off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

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 Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.

For all the screen credits on pictures good and bad, and despite his above-the-line Hollywood friends, the fleeting tabloid television infamy of his drugs arrest had landed him back at Caines buying smokes. "Coke, a smoke, and a raisin square," they used to say; townie comfort food, stuff you could gum.

He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.

A large number of Pakistani Television Anchors attitudinize just as like the clowns and impersonate to spread the nonsense, even with a thrill since the lack of vision and fairness.

Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS from giving money to television preachers?

Girl, where were you last night? I waited up until Arsenio was over.

Ölülerin, televizyon, radyo, mikser gibi bozulmuÅŸ nesneler gibi olduklar?n? ve en iyisinin onlar?n iÅŸler halini hat?rlamak olduÄŸunu, kabul edilebilir tek mezarl???n an?lar olduÄŸunu anlatt???n? aktard?m.

Only the TV sounds are real, they are the actual events. All the people around here experience the same things at the same time, except for some loner, who switches to the educational channel.

Der bequeme Fernsehstuhl breitet weit die Arme aus, leise ertönt die Signation zur Zeit im Bild, nüchtern regt sich der Nachrichtensprecher über seiner Krawatte. Auf dem Beistelltisch in beispielgebender Fülle und Buntheit eine sortierte Schüsselsammlung mit Naschereien, aus der sich die Damen abwechselnd oder zugleich bedienen. Wenn sie leer ist, wird sie sogleich nachgefüllt, es ist wie im Schlaraffenland, wo auch nichts zuende geht und nichts anfängt.

A clever way often for a person to get the biggest footage in a tv show is to say that he wants to hug the contestant by coming up over the stage.

A fool remains often glued to an idiot box called TV to hear for an expert's views and reviews as reliable news.

Chatterbox has only the views in sync with the news disseminated from the idiot-box.

Fools remain glued to the idiot box called TV for hearing often only news and even parroting the same before others to spread it as own views.

Only fools in public get excited or incited by watching the topics being hotly debated & discussed by panels on the news channels.

Peace exists between Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law only in the TV serials or reel life ; but if there is no conflict seen often between the duo in the real life,then it is to be construed a drama only in that house.

So-called experts or panelists in the prime time TV show verbally fight tooth and nail over a subject to not to bring any solution, but to create often commotion to divert the attention of the ordinary population from the main problem of the nation.

The sole objective of prime-time panel discussion often seems to be to thrust news makers' words down into the viewers' throat.