Quotes About Television

Since Chris Albrecht took over the network, I think more and more people are finding Starz. He made HBO what HBO became, and now he's doing the same thing at Starz.

When you're doing 22 shows on network television, the writers are going on vapors towards the end and, as an actor, you're just trashed by the end.

MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.

The budget on cable television is dramatically less than network television.

'Cinnamon Girl' is a game changer for our network and is exactly the type of show we want to deliver.

I was on network TV for about 15 years or so, which I loved.

'Down Home with the Neelys' was the highest-rated Food Network show in history. But the crazy part about it was I never wanted to do that show. I never wanted to live my life quite out loud like that.

Women drive network television.

Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it.

For years, the defenders of television have argued that the networks are only giving the people what they want. That might be true. But so is the Medellin cartel.

In the U.S., there are around 300 shows in different networks, so there's a lot of work here.

The networks initiated the discussion of live coverage.

The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience.

I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication.

Anybody who has spent time with the networks - in fact, you don't even have to spend time with the networks, all you have to do is just watch primetime TV - and you think, 'What the hell are they doing? I could run the network better.' And I think everybody feels that way.

The networks are business-oriented cowards.

The TV mini-series is kind of a lost genre because the networks have given up on it.

As a television actor, when we work in TV, what we're doing is making a product so that networks can sell ad space.

I feel like the networks always end up doing similar stuff at the same time.

Podcasting - it's a huge, huge thing now. 'The Fighter and the Kid' and the 'Big Brown Breakdown' reaches more people than a lot of shows on networks right now as far as television goes. It's such a loyal fan base, and I know my boxing. I'm really into it. I'm really honored to be a part of something like this. I feel like a glitch in 'The Matrix.'

This is the evolution of television. It just keeps evolving from three networks, four cable networks, satellite. Now there's Internet channels and the phone.

I challenge you to go and turn on the other cable networks to find a face like mine in primetime.

There has been an attempt to pull in a more cable mentality to the big networks - from NBC hiring Scott Sassa from TNT, to FOX hiring Herzog from Comedy Central.

One of the things The WB has about it that a lot of other networks don't is they lead with their heart.