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Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up. -- David Chase
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With the rise of cable, network is clearly floundering because the characters on cable are far more fascinating than they are on network. Network television is trying to figure it out. Network television really relies on story rather than character, and cable relies on character. -- Dylan McDermott
I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous. -- Dave Chappelle
I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television. -- Jack Falahee
Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network. -- Wolfgang Puck
Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America. -- Ben Stein
The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly. -- Tucker Carlson
Now, you always know there's going to be some compromise when you're doing something for television, and especially network television. -- Amy Hill
No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me. -- Scott Pelley
Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television. -- Dylan McDermott
My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor. -- James Badge Dale
It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares. -- Chris Carter
I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball. -- Robert Carlyle
People are sophisticated viewers, as evidenced by the risks that are taken in cable television, and I think network has to do the same thing. -- Todd Lieberman
I just don't see the social good in using taxpayer money to fund a network that provides more television and bandwidth for illegally downloading files. -- Rocky Anderson
Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It's like network television. I'm your local cable access station. -- Thomas Ligotti
I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman. -- Bruce Baum
I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff. -- Bill Lawrence
China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its many language services around the world. -- Hillary Clinton
There's still formulaic stuff on network television, but there's also more of an opportunity to have your way with storytelling, especially in sitcoms. That's what the difference is. -- Amy Hill
That's a big battle to win, to be able to do a main title sequence and a theme song these days. That's not something network television does anymore. -- Peter M. Lenkov
The movie's only serious criticism is reserved for Baker's television network, which doesn't think Americans care about Afghanistan - kind of hypocritical given this film's lack of substance. -- David Edelstein
I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content. -- Terry Semel
To complain about how the media are dominated by liberals, Limbaugh has an hour a day on network television, an hour on cable, and a radio show syndicated by over 600 stations. -- Michael Parenti
I'm hoping that these series, that originally aired in the 80's and 90's, prove to be as entertaining online and on portable devices as they were when first broadcast on network television. -- Stephen J. Cannell
I'd always thought that 'NYPD Blue' really would open those doors. While I think it created a much broader template for cable, I don't think it really did that much for network television. -- Steven Bochco
I created a tone for network television that they hadn't really been seen before. And I have to admit that was really more of an accident. I was just writing the way I write. -- Marc Cherry
I feel that 'Person of Interest' is the same quality as 'Brotherhood.' I think it's one of the smartest network television shows on the air today. The audience is a wide range of individuals. -- Kevin Chapman
It's ironic, really, because I've spent the bulk of my career making my living in a very commercial realm: network television. And yet, my sensibilities don't necessarily line up with how I pay my rent. -- Tim Daly

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