#programming

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies. ↗

— James Wolcott

#every #filling #idealistic #instead #leaving

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#bets #changes #comedy #drama #mass

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#because #different #entities #like #management

The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#having #heart #house #like #network

Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything. ↗

— Anthony Michael Hall

#creates #directors #everything #more #obviously

I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within. ↗

— William Jackson

#any #become #being #children #door

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#good #i #i am #important #important thing

Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#everyday #everyday life #guess #i #into

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it. ↗

— Michael Medved

#consumes #fretting #industry #little #much

I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#because #could #deal #different #discover