Assuming Quote by Jeremy Paxman

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their…

— Alice Walker

I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.

— Dan Harmon

Trying to be a sort of intellectual in the public arena is very irritating to people. They think, 'Why is this bugger on television?'

— Alain de Botton

Commercial television has underestimated the intelligence of the public.

— Jerry Lewis

It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot.

— Brad Williams

You're smarter than TV. So what?

— Douglas Coupland

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

— Marvin Hamlisch

“A TV can insult your intelligence, but nothing rubs it in like a computer.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Any idiot can throw together a program or report and shove it out, but to get the balance and to get the skill set,…

— Richard Quest

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

— Steven Moffat

I think network TV to a large extent has underestimated the intelligence of the American public for so many years now. It's tried to…

— Adrian Pasdar

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.

— J. Michael Straczynski