Quotes About Media

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.

It's an absolute disgrace that there isn't a books programme on the BBC.

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

The Internet's a driving force in the change from mass media to 'my media,' in which consumers will be their own programmers.

When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.

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.

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.

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.

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

I hate programmes where some TV personality looks you in the eye and tells you what to think - the Andrew Marr version of history. I hate the authorial voice telling you what to think.

I don't like going on TV programmes.

I think a lot of the political programmes have decided that most people aren't interested in politics, so they broadcast only for people who are.

Consumers are increasingly programming their own entertainment and content experiences.

We have had conversations with Lucasfilm, and we continue to have them. I think it would be wonderful to extend that brand onto our programming.

'NewsHour' is very interested in poetry, but they're also interested in not just that something's cute to add on at the end of their programming, but something that actually is integrated into the news.

Authentic programming that shows the outside world garners authentic interest.

There's not a lot of gay programming on TV.

That's what my job is: to create quality programming.

I have been watching male programming all my life. And I'm completely interested in it. Like, I love 'Breaking Bad' and I like 'Game of Thrones.'

The more channels putting money into quality programming the better.

You have to watch CNN, MSNBC, Fox and then the local news and then Al Jazeera. The truth is somewhere in the middle, because all of them are lying. It's what they're not saying that's really going on. What they're saying is called television programming. They're telling you this is the program. You are being programmed.

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.