I love to watch television in Babylon, especially the news because it's so full of corruption. I-man know there is so much corruption, there is bound to be an eruption!
Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.
The guy who sits in front of the television is unengaged. That man is a bad man.
Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook.
The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?
Ultimately, the joy of sports is social and psychological, both in the ballpark and around a television on Super Bowl Sunday.
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
MTV essentially killed 'American Bandstand' and 'Solid Gold,' because music videos are an easier way for pop artists to gain television exposure.
But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
'Leave It to Beaver,' which ran from 1957 until 1963, was one of the strangest, sweetest, most distinctive domestic sitcoms of television's celebrated Golden Age.
I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.
You rarely see women being nice to each other on television anymore.
Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years.
There are an enormous amount of techniques I wanted to beta test in television. You can't take those risks on a $100 million movie.
In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.
On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.
