It's pathetic. It's pathetic that someone in a time especially right after Katrina, seeing people suffer, would take advantage of the system. |
It's really an ingenious idea. One of the most desirable things in American life is a job on television. Everybody can understand the appeal of that more so than the appeal of a million dollars. Somebody wins a million bucks on Survivor, that doesn't mean anything to viewers. Here you've got a situation [where] somebody really does have a career launch. |
It's so dense. There are so many mysteries going on. It's the perfect show for internet speculating. |
It's the most successful created national holiday since Abraham Lincoln established Thanksgiving. |
It's the only television entity of any kind that ever had a generation named after it, |
It's totally possible for this thing not to hit the mass-culture radar screen. |
Let's face it: a group of soldiers in a circle doing a rap can give you more insight than a journalist or a historian can give you. |
Males ages 18 to 34 and 18 to 49, for that matter, have long been a desirable demo for TV networks. |
Maybe we are going back to the '50s. |
Mozart is one of the few great masters who has truly penetrated pop culture. He's the universal donor – you could find something of his to use just for just about anything. |
New Year's Day was the perfect time for football because you could roll out of bed and you could start watching football, even before you manage to mix your aspirin and water. The second (of January) is just not the same. Some people are going to have to get up. The dynamic gets broken. The whole calculus changes. |
No 'Born on the 4th of July' stories anywhere in sight, |
No matter how good the show is, a 2-inch screen is still not same as big screen TV. |
No one would ever likely confuse reality TV with Masterpiece Theatre. |
No-one wants a moment like the exposed breast of Janet Jackson to happen on stage or on the red carpet at the Oscars. |