I was in 'Goodwin Games,' which was canceled, and a few other things, so I kind of swore off television unless I was writing or producing it.
I left 'The Bob Newhart Show,' which was my decision. CBS wanted it to go on. But I could see television changing; I could see the tastes were changing.
Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.
My mother, Nancy Dickerson, was a reporter for CBS and NBC and the first female star of television news; my father, Wyatt Dickerson, was a successful businessman. Their parties, from the '60s to the '80s, attracted cabinet officials, movie stars, and presidents.
The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.
Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.
We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.
The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.
I never really planned on doing a television series.
'Doctor Who' is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time.
You're not supposed to do a television series that takes place in nine cities all over the globe. Everyone will tell you that that's undoable.
We are cannibalizing our audience by only giving them regurgitated material. Every movie is either a remake, a sequel, based on something else. Based on a former television series. Based on a successful videogame.
It's considered a coup to become a lead on a kind of cutting-edge television series. I mean, that's a plus for your feature film career and for your career in general. There are no walls anymore between the two.
The only reason to do a television series is to make it successful. And if it is successful, that's a six or seven year commitment.
The space between the television set and the viewer is holy ground.
You don't have to know how to build an automobile or a television set or a laptop to know how to use it.
So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
I no longer need a large television set in my vanity van and just go to Hotstar on my phone - it is much easier to watch everything there.
