Words matter. These are the best Kevin Reilly Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
What the hell is pilot season? It’s an artificial boundary that makes no sense, and it makes you do things under duress.
Unfortunately, there is no ‘X Factor U.S.A.’ without Simon Cowell.
‘Glee’ is produced with three people and written by three people. In my mind, I don’t believe there’s any other show on television that was written by three people. The fact is there are shows that have 14, 15, or 16 people writing them.
As the media landscape continues to evolve, ‘Conan’ will continue to lead the evolution of what a talk show will be in the digital age.
It used to be a given that the talent and the talent agencies would line up around the broadcast pitch season first and then take whatever was still available out to cable. I hate to say it, but it’s just not going down that way anymore. There are things that are bypassing the broadcast networks altogether.
Producing a one-hour show that has to reinvent musical numbers, and interpret those musical numbers with a large cast, is difficult.
It’s always a good problem to have to hear people saying they want to see more.
The one thing that I’m really obsessed with is multi-camera comedy. It is a form that is unique to network television.
Every television show is hard to do, but when you’re in genre and you’re recreating worlds and mythologies, they’re particularly hard.
The resilience of narrative storytelling and people’s love affair with television is impressive.
The way television is done, you’re kind of set on a certain path, and then episodic directors come in every week to try to recreate that.
I love talent because they are passionate. They can be emotional and irrational and unpredictable… and that’s okay, because all we want is something exciting on the page and on the screen.
Creative content is challenging, no matter what, and animation is particularly challenging.
Nobody watches commercials if you ask them. Nevertheless, they watch commercials.
I love my job, but I’d really love my job if I didn’t have to live and die by ratings every day.
The 10 million views on YouTube are… worthless to us as a business.
Producing a drama is particularly difficult.
People love television; they’re watching a lot of it in a lot of ways.
There are not going to be hundreds of cable networks doing original programming; they won’t be able to sustain the model.
I’m trying to be a broadcaster and have a big cultural impact.
I always believe that if you stick with quality and give people a chance at the time, that people eventually get on board with it. It’s been my experience more than not. Once in a while, there’s a show that you just can’t seem to break through on.
‘Surviving Jack’ was actually a really nice show that was very well-run creatively.
You always want to trust talent; that’s the best thing.
Fox was the challenger to cable before there was cable.
If what you’re doing today isn’t vital, you’re certainly not going to have a seat at the table in determining what’s going to happen tomorrow.
Pilots are useful. You just learn things during a pilot – the piece of casting that just wasn’t right or things about the storytelling nature.
Before there was cable, Fox was cable.
I love TV. Always have. Since my mother told me to stop sitting so close and watching so much.
Rather than make 20 things and throw them at the wall and hope you get 6 that maybe feel like keepers, why not focus?
The biggest move that put Fox on the map, from an entertainment perspective, was when ‘The Simpsons’ moved to Thursday night, and that was paired with ‘Martin’ and ‘Living Single.’
I’m a believer in broadcast.
One of the things I truly enjoy about my job is the dynamic nature of having a foot in each world – the world of the talent, who create our product – and the world of our business in which we market, distribute, and monetize that product.
One thing that cable has done is trained the audience that, when a TV show is on, it should be on.
When you get these franchises with some built in profiles and anticipation… I think the anticipation and the buildup can can exceed the delivery.
‘Friday Night Lights’ was never a break-out hit; I’ll never regret doing that show.