Quotes About Television

We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on.

I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.

I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.

My favorite Luna disc is our third, 'Penthouse,' a sparkly, moody album that works from track one all the way to track 11. Tom Verlaine of Television and Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab make guest appearances. I am also fond of the final Luna album, 'Rendezvous.'

Look at my track record: All of the big hits we created in Holland worked globally.

I have an aversion to laugh tracks - the moment I hear a laugh track, I go to another channel.

It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.

So many shows don't have laugh tracks now that, when you hear it, it can be slightly jarring.

We were poor. My mother got our clothes out of the free box at the church, you know? So much of when you're a kid is about relating about what you watch on TV. And who's got these cooler shoes, and 'Let's trade lunches.' And I was just like, 'I don't have a television. I have a rock and a piece of tofu.'

Would I have traded 'Homeland' for anything else? No. Would I trade 'Billions' for anything else? No.

When you're trying to coordinate four separate shows together, it's pretty Herculean.

We all [Ed Simmons,Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis] started together, so there were no rules - anything we wrote became television.

TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.

It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach.

Instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her secrets, while keeping our own to ourselves, as always.

They both go together you can't be in front of the camera hosting a fitness television show in front of 75 million households and not have trained 6 days per week year round - in a bikini no less.

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit the stores are open late and thanks to television you can shop in bed.

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

When you do television, you have this opportunity to drop these subtle hints everywhere. The way you say things, for example, sometimes those seeds turn into trees.

The defining problem of contemporary television is trust: Can you believe what you see on television, does television treat people fairly, is it healthy for society?

And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.

I don't like live television, the only tip I have is just pray.

I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.

People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.