I guess one that wouldn’t be obvious is – well, maybe it’s super obvious, I can’t tell – ‘I Love Lucy’ is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I’ve watched every episode I don’t know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
I’ve been hopping around in sitcom land. I did an episode of ‘Roseanne,’ ‘Family ‘Ties’ and ‘Who’s the Boss.’
I kind of got really, really into ‘Hill Street Blues’ when it came out. I used to leave a class early just to make sure I could watch the episode of ‘Hill Street Blues’ that day.
This idea that you can watch a show like ‘True Detective,’ and it was awesome, but is it really ruined for you if the finale is not your favorite episode of it? It’s just odd to me.
I did an episode of ‘Entourage.’ I played Morgan – I think it was season three or season four. It was actually my third audition, and it was my first big job.
My mom, dad, and sister have all watched every episode of everything I’ve ever done.
For the two or three weeks you work on an episode, you totally immerse yourself.
If someone said, ‘Sit down and write a ‘Community’ episode,’ I would be panicked.
The amount of coordination it takes to shoot a television show is mind-numbing. There are so many things that have to be exactly right to create the correct environment for a single shot, let alone a whole scene or the full episode.
When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.
We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she’s not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
I used to watch every episode of ‘Justice League,’ I went to all the movies, I had the Superman lunchbox. I was enamored with animation in general and always wanted to somehow be a part of it.
I don’t really watch any TV. I’ll glance at the TV sometimes if my wife’s watching ‘Empire’ or ‘Scandal.’ I’ll sit with her for an episode. But I don’t have a TV show that I watch.
We’ve done a zombie episode – only one – and the way we look at it as is we understand that there probably aren’t zombies out there for real, but there’s a lot of interesting stuff we can test about them. We’ve tested how bodies of zombies pressing against a gate, would they push it through and things like that.
I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on ‘Wine Library TV’ tomorrow. Monday’s episode is always the best, because it’s hot off the press.
I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I’m apparently willing to watch the same episode of ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,’ like, seven times.
I loved making it but when I saw it, I thought, ‘Oh my God. I’m a big green lizard running around Cardiff? Is that it?’ It’s nice to have been in ‘Doctor Who’ but that is regarded by fans as the worst episode ever.
Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they’re equally as good at reconciliation.
It might be a little embarrassing, but I never ever missed an episode of ‘Dawson’s Creek’ growing up.
Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I’ve seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that’s about it.
I get emotional easily: I feel like ‘Cupcake Wars,’ ‘Chopped’ – the right episode just breaks you apart.
I mean, every Star Trek episode you saw was just phenomenal.
‘The X-Files’ was a hard sell because people didn’t know what it was. The network didn’t understand what it was that they were buying, and at the beginning, they wanted us to have closure. They wanted us to put the cuffs on the bad guy at the end of each episode.
It’s crazy. Even doing that one episode of ‘Catfish,’ I get people recognizing me for it who didn’t even know my music.
I’ve now learned that the most stressful day of filming a TV series is the first day of a new episode. You haven’t quite banked the one you just wrapped and are wondering, ‘Did I do that right?’ ‘Could I have done that better?’
‘CSI’ was an amazing experience, which, looking back, I was very lucky to get. They shoot an entire episode in eight days, so everything has to be totally slick and professional.
I’ve never watched an entire episode of ‘American Idol’. It’s too mean.
I’m ashamed to say this, but I watched every episode of ‘Starsky and Hutch’ as a kid. I loved that show, but now I think it’s stupid – they’d have a car chase for no reason, then Paul Michael Glaser would shoot the car and it would blow up.
In television, you make an hour-long episode every seven days; we used to make ‘Party Down’ in four days per episode. It’s quick and with independent movies is the same: you gotta keep moving. It’s very similar.
You could go to Estonia and there’s probably an episode of ‘Seinfeld’ playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.
My SAG card was from doing ‘Blue Bloods,’ an episode called ‘Justice Served.’
In TV, you are much more likely to see the episode closer to the script as written – in terms of the order of the scenes – than you would in a movie, and here’s why: you don’t have as many days to edit. You have 10 to 12 weeks or more to edit a feature, and you have four days to edit TV. That’s a huge difference.
The 3,000th episode is a great milestone for ‘Hollyoaks,’ so it was just really nice and a big honour to play a part in it.
I love ‘The Office.’ I’m in the premiere, and I’m maybe gonna shoot another episode this season, but I’ve been there since the very beginning, so when I found out this is the last year – I am a good Asian kid who was an A student – I wish I could be there to the end to see things through.
I’m not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.
In nighttime series, the actor gets billing up front on every episode.
I try to approach all episodic work the same. No matter the content. I look for a dramatic or emotional spine to the story I’m telling, something that stands out to me thematically about the episode and its relationship to the rest of the season/series.
Directing a television episode is no joke, and it’s incredibly difficult and especially when you’re acting in it as well.
I loved my time on ‘The Mindy Project’ so much. It was only supposed to be half a year. It was really only supposed to be one episode, and then it became three episodes, and then it became half a year, and then it became a year and a half, and then it became two years.
Mainstream media has convinced people that black people aren’t relatable. So when a Jewish person comes up to me and is all, ‘Oh man, I love that one scene from Episode 3, I watch it over and over again,’ I’m so happy. Because that’s what I want.
I did an episode of ‘Law & Order: Criminal Intent’ with Jeff Goldblum, which was fun because I’ve known him for years.
People offer me loads of stuff, and some of it I like, but I just can’t do it because I can’t write it all. So I might get in the position where I have some sort of company and just write maybe the first episode, but these are love projects, in a way.
I do feel like I have a lot more confidence now. I can shot list the episode before I start, but then, as things happen on set, I know how to adjust so I can still execute the scene completely, and I still know how to make my days.
We knew all along we were making a good show, so its success was not a surprise to me. What has surprised me is the magnitude of this show’s success. More people see me now in one episode than saw me in 20 years of movies and theater!
I grew up in Mammoth Lakes, and they shot an episode up there, and I was hanging around when I was on the ski team. I was very, very involved in athletics, so I didn’t watch a lot of TV, but I definitely watched a lot of ‘90210.’
I never watch television, although, the other night, my wife and I caught an episode of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ from Season Six. It’s the only series of which I’ve ever watched every single episode.
Every episode of ‘The Conversation’ was created to be a platform for women, to connect women, and to allow women’s voices to be heard as much as possible. That’s why I launched that show on a television network and online simultaneously.
The episode of the ‘shoe bomber,’ Richard Reid, has suddenly meant more feet being bared at airports than at the average Hindu temple. My solution has been to replace my customary lace-up Oxfords with a pair of slip-on loafers when I fly. Generals are always fighting the last war, and security screeners are the same.
Fans of the hit HGTV show ‘Fixer Upper’ are well aware that its stars, Chip and Joanna Gaines, live on a farm in Waco, Texas. Nearly every episode features some kind of montage of their four kids romping outside with various kinds of farm animals, from pigs to horses to goats.
I look at each episode in two ways – from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint – this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.
