Quotes About Audience

You know, we've got so much on Bravo and coming up on Bravo, and I think we have so much more going on than 'The Real Housewives.' And I think 'The Real Housewives' is a great, you know, great addition to the portfolio. I think it brings a lot of viewers under our umbrella. And I think they stay and sample other shows.

With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.

We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel.

Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore.

My very first news director said to me that it's better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral.

Right now the producers of 'Modern Family' have no idea how many people watch our show each week on all platforms, and nobody seems to want to tell us. If a disproportionate number of any show's viewers watch in alternative ways, then, under the current system, that show may not appear to be as strong as it actually is.

I'm all about building a relationship with viewers and getting to know them.

I wasn't really using Twitter before 'Pan Am.' It was a good way to promote the show and be with the viewers on Sunday and be available to them and take questions.

I think most people who were involved with television will tell you, if given a season or given a 13-episode order and getting those episodes on the air, and if viewers don't come, I think most people will tell you they'd walk away. They feel they were given a fair shake, and if viewers didn't come, they didn't come.

Ultimately, criticism that 'The Real World' has devolved into a lesser enterprise comes from the viewers who came of age alongside it, not the teens of the moment that MTV has always existed for.

I find a lot of up-and-coming musicians I enjoy, present them to my viewers - and hopefully inflate the growth of these artists by putting them in front an audience that wouldn't have been aware of them.

When I meet viewers in person, it always seems to be entire family units.

We've seen other Internet people go to TV, and it's bad because they take two months off to make a pilot, and their viewers have forgotten about them when they come back.

Republican presidential debates have become contests of who can terrify viewers the most.

I think my viewers want smart, honest programming. They don't want to be told what makes them feel good.

When I entered TV, I realised that it's not just all about art, but it has a business dimension as well. You need to take care of yourself. I also learned who my viewers are.

Not a day goes by when we're not grateful to see that viewers seem to be responding.

'The Walking Dead' producers are really in touch, and appreciative, of their viewers.

You don't want to bash viewers over the head with a blunt message or lecture them - they'd soon get bored with that.

I'm always thinking about the viewers.

With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.

I've avoided doing a network comedy, because I wouldn't get my own way. Even though it would get more viewers, it wouldn't be mine.

I really focus on giving the viewers compelling television, and hope that more and more people watch.

A TV show has to be a certain length and, you know, you have expectations from the viewers. You know, you want to see the characters again, or you want to see certain dynamics between the characters or certain kinds of storylines. And you kind of figure out how to best fit what you want to say into that format.