Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.
I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.
With the advent of cable and such, you guys are calling it the golden age of TV in terms of the writing and stuff. But it's like different branches of a big tree that TV has become.
It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing.
I actually think we should be trying to be rigorous in our thinking about television and the way it enters our lives and shapes the way so many people think.
Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
Television has raised writing to a new low.