These investigative stories may not appeal to you at all in the first place. I think there is nothing wrong with the many, many people who just don't like that, like some people don't like sitcoms, I think there's nothing inherently wrong with someone who doesn't like' Tiger King.'.

Robert Thompson

In many ways, the Mafia took over from the Western as the great American epic, it's about the settling of the urban frontier as opposed to the geographical frontier, and it's also a great immigration story.

Robert Thompson

entertainment

Art turns data into experience, when you see those stories embodied in actual human beings, with pretty unrelenting closeups (of interview subjects), that has a rhetorical power that exceeds 'just the facts,'.

Robert Thompson

entertainment

If you lose a main character, or someone walks out, or there is a controversy, and the fix means it is still a funny or compelling show, then most people will forget very quickly, people will completely accept it - if the show is any good.

Robert Thompson

company-news

This is show business, not science. You do it and see how it works.

Robert Thompson

company-news

You get one last chance in your death to remind people not only of who you were, but what you did and why it was important.

Robert Thompson

lifestyle

I'm looking forward to being sincerely interested in what they have to say without having to translate it through an idiot's mouth.

Robert Thompson

entertainment

He could get away with that when he was on the 'Colbert Report' because he was doing a parody of (Fox News Channel pundit) Bill O'Reilly.

Robert Thompson

entertainment

When he is going on all cylinders that show could be absolutely breath-taking and really informative and important to the civic conversation, people used to watch some of this goofy stuff that goes on in TV news and didn't think anything about it. But as you see the 100th montage where Stewart shows how all these cliches are repeated across the board, you don't look at TV news in the same way.

Robert Thompson

entertainment

I imagine a lot of people on cable TV news are going to be happy not to have to wake up every morning and hear how Jon Stewart made fun of them the night before.

Robert Thompson

entertainment

The Brian Williams story really poisoned the waters of the celebrity anchor person, no one now wants to pull the big stunt, get the biggest person you can get, because that's exactly what got the U.S. networks in trouble in the first place.

Robert Thompson

top-news

Reagan was the epitome of cool. He was above cool. He was post-cool, he was arguably the coolest president ever.

Robert Thompson

politics

The TV appearances are the equivalent of what a whistle stop used to be, they still have to do that, but the modern whistle stop is The View and Fallon and Colbert, and you slowly build up, if nothing else, the base of people who know you.

Robert Thompson

politics

Reality television is supposed to be unscripted, in which we don’t know what is going to happen, and sadly, this is one of those things.

Robert Thompson

entertainment

Time difference will make a big difference and yes, people will take advantage of the time shifting, something that started with clever VCR owners back in 1981 for the Charles-Diana wedding, and is much easier now.

Robert Thompson

She represents that generation when daytime television was still a broadcast TV phenomenon.

Robert Thompson

[ Ellen ] was one of the anchor stores in the mall of daytime television, i think in many ways, she might be sort of the last of that era.

Robert Thompson

Kelly Clarkson is doing pretty well, i guess Kelly Clarkson might be what you'd call the crown prince.

Robert Thompson

Given the gravity of the ‘Rust’ situation, the first thing that Alec Baldwin does after that, you want to make sure it can't be really in any way be tasteless, or that you could read something into it that could comment upon the ‘Rust’ [incident], i think a true crime show like this is probably a fairly safe bet.

Robert Thompson

The kind of thing he's doing with this fraud podcast is very, very much in a genre that is really popular, matter of fact, the first podcasts to really break through were these true crime kinds of things.

Robert Thompson

We’re not only in the best seats; we’re in seats that don’t even exist.

Robert Thompson