37 Quotes by Bill Carroll

Not everyone can host a talk show. She's proven she can talk to Tom Hanks or the woman who has had her mattress for 50 years. And she relates to them in the same way.

They went in a different way. There was a lot of speculation focused on them finding someone who fit in the Meredith Vieira mold and they obviously didn't go that way.

The consensus seems to be that the upfront will once again be a record. The broadcast networks, by any reasonable measure, are still the most efficient means of reaching the largest possible audience.

The consensus seems to be that the upfront will once again be a record, ... The broadcast networks, by any reasonable measure, are still the most efficient means of reaching the largest possible audience.

If you look at the characters that were predominantly on their schedule, with 'The West Wing,' 'Frasier' and 'Seinfeld,' they were detached, elitist and urban, ... every network is trying to reach as broad an audience as possible.

If you looked at this past fall, there was a certain degree of confusion, with the Martha Stewart and Donald Trump versions. I think now it'll be a bit clearer for the audience.

His genius has been promotion and scheduling. Some of the pieces were in place, but if you don't exploit those pieces and don't schedule them correctly, you could have the best show on television and no one knows and no one sees.

This is a highly anticipated show and it should be. She's a bigger-than-life character,

All of this is positioning, ... The networks are trying to say 'we're not going to cede this exclusively to the cable networks.'