Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.
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Joss Whedon
The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted.
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P.D. James
I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that's what he means he's quite right. I'm not going to delve into...
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Rod Serling
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
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Nicholas Johnson
He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.
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Lord Reith
More Quotes By Clive Barnes
Television is the literature of the illiterate the culture of the low-brow the wealth of the poor the privilege of the underprivileged the exclusive club of the excluded masses.
Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.
