What I've certainly learned is that whenever I've said anything about real politics, I've come under attack. So it's best simply to play politics on television.
When I was a young kid, the best stuff on television was always the BBC period dramas - it was what we sat down as a family to watch and what people talked about and looked forward to.
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And yet that's the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed.
I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.
Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane.
I'm just looking for a kind of project that will have a decent role and is something that I'll really enjoy doing. There are a lot more opportunities in television.
You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.
Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.
There is a revolution happening, and within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built into all the televisions.
I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.
I would watch 'The Dukes of Hazzard' on loop. At one point I had 30 televisions in my bedroom and I would watch it over and over.
Did you ever notice that nobody you see on television looks like anyone you know?
I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.
I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
I was very fortunate in all of my career in television to have a lot of things that received a lot of awards recognition.
I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk.
