Quotes About Entertainment

Netflix and Amazon know when you stop and start a program, whether you wanted the whole thing, all of that.

A lot of people look at a basketball team as an anchor tenant for an arena. I look at an arena as the anchor tenant for a much larger program.

I'd love a rule to be introduced that you can only ring up and complain about a programme if you can prove you've watched the whole programme.

What I love in television is when you have the banter between the presenters, that's what makes a really good programme. That's why it is so important for me to have good relationships with people I'm commentating with.

Even the 'Today' programme involves a balance between the worthy-but-heavy items with the worthless-but-entertainingly-light ones.

Nowadays, kids know how a programme like Merlin is made and how it works. But the show just seems to grow in popularity the more it goes on.

HBO spent a huge amount of money on 'Game Of Thrones,' and it won't be able to keep spending the money if it can't make it back from people watching it legitimately. It will have an effect on the quality of the programme.

I'm following my interests, and there's something about investigating the world and creating a watchable, entertaining programme out of it that is deeply satisfying.

Certainly a curtain has never fallen too soon for me. Every play is too long, even the short ones. Every concert, every film, every television programme the same.

Award functions are a big sham. It's a money-making television programme.

The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.

I really like sitting down with my daughter to watch programmes like 'Call the Midwife,' '24 hours in A&E,' 'One Born Every Minute' and 'Our Girl.' It's just the two of us, which is really nice.

Have I ever presented a programme I don't watch? Well, I've done loads of programmes that no one else watched!

I've always have loved reality programmes. 'Big Brother,' 'I'm A Celebrity,' they're my guilty pleasure.

When I was a kid there were a very select few channels - programmes had to have more of a large appeal and they just didn't offer very much. Now you have a situation where the television world has expanded and there's hundreds of channels.

I love cookery programmes.

The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.

I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.

There are only a handful of really good TV programmes, and I'm blessed to be in one of them.

I do think the BBC could do more, but I've always thought the BBC could do more - I think there should be more arts programmes full stop.

You get fed up watching shows with not much care and love, reality programmes where they put people in a house for a fortnight and film them doing everything, or where participants arrive after lunch and do the programme at six.

Occasionally, there are programmes - like 'The Office' or 'Gavin and Stacey,' perhaps - where you get the feeling everybody's seen it.

I like cookery programmes: Anthony Bourdain going around the world eating stuff; Rick Stein - he's another favourite.

I never watch anything live, I record all my programmes and have a real binge on a Friday night and watch them all.