Cable tv Quote by Jill Zarin

We were an entertainment brand, and if we were going to compete in an era of incredible growth in the cable industry, I felt…

— Nancy Dubuc

Why would you let [the TV audiences] build a habit of going to the cable networks? So I think they've obviously smartened up now,…

— James Patterson

When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to…

— Dan Harmon

The good thing is that I really think that American television is in kind of a second golden age. Even though there's a lot…

— Paul Feig

For my generation of actors, it was about the theatre. Television didn't exist. Coaxial cable didn't exist.

— Martin Landau

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving…

— James Wolcott

Something economically changed. It used to be that you needed 20 million people to watch a TV show for it to be a hit.…

— Judd Apatow

Reality television was in some ways being unimaginative at that time. We were excited about the possibilities of the form, to use real people…

— John Landgraf

I think that, especially with cable, it's an avenue to be creative. I think why people are drawn more now to cable shows than…

— Jeffrey Donovan

Everyone talks about reality TV and that there are no roles left. That's false. Years ago, there were three networks. Now there are 20…

— Corbin Bernsen

Going on reality TV is a shrewd business move now: I miss the innocence of how it used to be.

— Angela Scanlon

At network television you could make a show like Freaks and Geeks, and even though 7 million people watch is every week, you were…

— Judd Apatow