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One thing about television in Britain is that they're so scared about complaints. It curbs a lot of drama. -- Alice Lowe
I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years. -- E. L. James
We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people. -- Charles Dance
When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999. -- Jamie Bamber
I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made. -- Mike Newell
After college, I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director. -- Justin Chadwick
It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television. -- James Nesbitt
Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality. -- Rupert Murdoch
Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant. -- David Attenborough
And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television. -- Rachel Griffiths
When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely. -- Marian Keyes
American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work. -- Chris Hardwick
I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the early seasons of 'Cops' and on the amazing stuff I had read about happening on Japanese shows and the British 'Big Brother'. -- William Gibson
The BBC's television, radio and online services remain an important part of British culture and the fact the BBC continues to thrive amongst audiences at home and abroad is testament to a professional and dedicated management team who are committed to providing a quality public service. -- Pauline Neville-Jones
I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy. -- Michael Fassbender
As parents, can we counter the effect of television violence? One worrying feature in Britain is that so many TV sets are in a child's bedroom; this means that the mediating effect of watching with a parent, the ability to discuss and interpret what has been seen, is lost. -- Robert Winston
What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the other supplies facts, and the British are traditionally empiricists so they/we have a resistance to theory and to theoreticians playing too prominent a role in public life. -- Will Self
I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the stand-up movement in this country is phenomenal. It's like rock n' roll here. Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves. -- Brendan Coyle
To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick. -- RuPaul
Astonishing times. Who would have imagined that the Crazy Gang would yield a Hollywood film star (Vinny Jones), a British television ever-present (John Fashanu) and now a televised African dance champion? -- Giles Smith
The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak for an hour on British television, they would say, "What! Another talking head? -- John Cleese

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