Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore.
I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it.
When you're with a big TV channel, there's a sense of having to behave in a certain way in order to get audience figures.
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.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.
I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.
I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.
I'm all about building a relationship with viewers and getting to know them.
Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are going up and profits are going up.
I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.