When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family.
'Doctor Who' began as family television: a show that kids and their parents and grandparents can all watch, maybe even together, on the sofa.
I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.
In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing.
In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.
I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.
The future of the television industry is changing at an unstoppable rate, and it is exciting to share my experience and thoughts on how this will change the value of content in the digital space.
I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home.
Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.
I'm purely most happy on a film or television set. That's where I feel I am home.
I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.
There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.
My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer, and my mom's a director and writer. Even when I was young, I wanted to be an actress.
It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of 'Performance' called 'The Entertainer' with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.
Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.
Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.
No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.
We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television.
