Doing a ‘Star Wars’ TV show could be prohibitively expensive because ‘Star Wars’ requires a lot of prop building and a lot of character building, so we wanted to – with ILM’s help – be able to make it a financially viable option to solve all the problems that you have with shooting a blue screen environment.
The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a lot went on to read my other work. It was a wonderful thing for my bank account.
I know that I’m a quirky guy, to say the least. I don’t know how easy I am to cast for a network. It hasn’t been because I haven’t tried. But am I dying to be on a TV show? No.
People are recognizing that I am an entrepreneur and do more than be on a reality TV show.
A TV show besides ‘This is Us’ that makes me cry? Not a shocker, but ‘Game of Thrones.’
I’m scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can’t fall asleep.
When I planned my wedding the first time, my ex-husband and I, we were both struggling comics. I had a TV show that had gotten cancelled. Basically, I rented a wedding gown; the reception hall smelled like feet.
Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.
Doing a film and doing a TV show are poles apart. They are two different things, cannot be compared, but I enjoy doing both, as I love what I do.
When I was 13, my mom checked me into a modeling agency. Then, out of nowhere, they asked me to audition for a TV show, which I did, and I got going from there.
The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn’t something I gravitate toward.
I wanted to make a TV show that I would want to watch and I naturally gravitated towards the genre of rom-com, because that’s something that I have so much love for.
When I came to Mumbai, I was just 19 years old and did the TV show, ‘Remix’. Thereafter, I just fell in love with acting.
More and more, you’re seeing television shows that are better than 99% of the movies out there. I mean, you watch something like the last couple of seasons of ‘The Sopranos,’ which is some of the most sophisticated writing I’ve ever seen filmed and some of the best filmmaking I’ve ever seen – and it’s a TV show.
The average person in Hollywood just assumes that if you’re on a hit TV show, then that’s the first thing you’ve ever done.
I grew up like Athena – covered with playing cards instead of armor – and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.
Doing a TV show, you’re on an assembly line and it’s as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.
We were little girls coming off of a TV show and had a team of people trying to sculpt us into something we weren’t.
When I grew up my role model was Will Smith. I wanted to have my own TV show, do films where I can do comedy and big films such as ‘I Am Legend’.
If you like standup and decide that it’s overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
I lead a very normal life. I’m just so happy being a mother that everything else revolves around that. If a movie falls through or a TV show doesn’t get picked up, I’m pretty easygoing about it because I’m just like, ‘Yay, I get to be with my kids more!’
Now, I’ve never hosted a reality TV show, but I know the true mark of a successful businessman is not the number of times you say, ‘You’re fired.’ It’s the number times you say, ‘You’re hired.’
It seems that whatever we do is somehow beyond reproach – murder, rape, drunk driving – as long as we go on a TV show and apologize.
My father Lloyd Bridges worked on a TV show called ‘Sea Hunt.’ He impressed upon me as a child the importance of taking care of the ocean and working together to do our part to reduce human pollution.
I left ‘How I Met Your Mother’ and jumped right onto an episode of ‘S.H.I.E.L.D.,’ the TV show. I wrapped, and the next day I was on set shooting ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’
I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern… I’m pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.
I’ve had four fantastic years on ‘Strictly Come Dancing,’ but for us it’s about moving forward and the end goal is to present a shiny-floored Saturday night TV show that we all love, for example, ‘Strictly,’ ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ – those sort of shows.
I was in this motorcade, and I was like, I’m with Michael Mann and Nick Nolte and I’m in a TV show. Oh, my God!’
To play different characters on a TV show where you’re working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it’s so ridiculously intense.
I’m probably not creative or talented enough to create an especially compelling piece of content, but I really do enjoy watching a great movie or TV show.
When you’re doing a TV show, it’s not like you just shoot for six weeks and you’re in an editing room with all of your footage. It’s like a guitar or a car, you have to fine tune things. You stop doing what’s not working, you work on what is working and you add things that do work.
I was involved in an organization called the White House Project, and the woman who ran it introduced me to Bloomberg. I told them, ‘You can pay me zero dollars, but I need you to give me a TV show to anchor, and I need you to hire someone to teach me where the cameras are.’
For a long-running TV show, you’re looking for a character who is interesting and vibrant and you can imagine going into all kinds of different areas.
I felt, selfishly, that if there was going to be a TV show about ‘Hannibal Lecter’ whether I was going to be involved or not, I’d rather be involved. I wanted to make sure it was something I wanted to watch.
It’s not all about starring in a TV show for me. It’s about being able to provide opportunity and employment for other people.
I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I’m a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called ‘Fame L.A.’ The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn’t very funny, so they asked me, ‘What else can you do?’ So I played a singer.
