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While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.

I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television;' it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.

The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a punchline or turn them into hero, and both of those things suck, because most people are neither in real life.

I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.

I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.

I'm not one of those who thinks there is something inherently bad or inferior about watching television.

I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it fits in.

Good TV is not just TV about good behavior.

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.