Quotes About Television

There was the 'Cosby Show' in America in the 1980s, which was a doctor in a beautiful Brownstone middle-class house. We just haven't created a role like that in the U.K.; it's always gangs and crime. We need to be brave.

It feels nice to get back to television after a long gap.

The first time that I saw people actually make the thing that I wrote was my first episode of 'Six Feet Under.' It was called 'Back To The Garden.'

And I'd like to believe that's true, you know, kind of showing gay people in this kind of light and - where it's not about that, it's just about the characters for the first time, like those shows were.

They might have a long way to go before truly accepting gay people into their lives, but they have accepted the show into their living rooms each and every week.

We call chemistry the 'c' word on 'Top Gear,' and you can't fake that, can you?

I love 'Top Gear'. It's my favorite show.

We'd become lazy with 'Top Gear,' doing six or seven shows a series.

'Top Gear' is one of those shows that you'd love to do.

When I was on 'Top Gear' they thought it was funny I used to have a Vauxhall Cavalier convertible.

Stuff about the reunion was all over the TV all the time, and they were playing 'Take It to the Limit' on the radio again. And I'm thinking, gee whiz, I wish they'd reunited with the guys who were actually in the group.

I do consider myself a film geek. I love television and film.

My first acting role as a kid was on 'Freaks and Geeks.'

If you take 'Cheers' and 'Seinfeld' and watch the early shows, they're kind of awkward. It took a while for the writers and everything to gel.

Let me very proudly say that as a television actor, I never, ever saw any gender bias.

I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation.

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

Before 'Bake Off,' frankly, if you'd asked most people on the bus if they'd ever heard of me, it would probably only have been those aged over 55. But if they were 15, they wouldn't have, and that's the difference with 'Bake Off' - it's loved across the generations.

Television has changed. There's obviously the generic shows, but on HBO and AMC, there are some really great series, so I'm not closed off to television. If there's an amazing role with amazing people and a great story, I'd definitely be open to it.

We're all used to seeing a lot of cop shows, some of them brilliant, some of them very generic.

I'm really into 'Veep.' I think that the showrunner Armando Iannucci is a genius.

Chris Parnell's a genius, so he'd be amazing on 'Who's Line.'

Ricky Gervais is a genius.

I'm a big fan of '30 Rock,' which I think is the most genius show on television.