Television
- Captain Malcom Reynolds (played by Nathan Fillion), from the space opera series Firefly and the film Serenity.
- Ken Barlow (played by William Roache), from the long-running British soap opera Coronation Street
- Temperance Brennan (played by Emily Deschanel), from the American drama television series Bones
- Brenda Chenowith (played by Rachel Griffiths), from the drama television series Six Feet Under
- Sheldon Cooper (played by Jim Parsons), from the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory
- Mark Corrigan (played by David Mitchell), protagonist of the British sitcom Peep Show
- Perry Cox (played by John C. McGinley), from the comedy-drama television series Scrubs
- The Tenth Doctor (Played by David Tennant) from the science fiction series Doctor Who
- Alicia Florrick (Played by Julianna Margulies) from the legal-drama television series The Good Wife
- Madeline "Maddie" Hayes (played by Cybill Shepherd), from the American television series Moonlighting
- Gregory House (played by Hugh Laurie), from the Emmy and Peabody-winning American medical drama House
- Billy Keikeya (played by Paul Campbell), from the science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica
- Jen Lindley (played by Michelle Williams), from the American primetime television drama Dawson's Creek
- Andy Millman (played by Ricky Gervais), from the BAFTA, Golden Globe and Emmy-winning British television sitcom Extras
- Dexter Morgan (played by Michael C. Hall), from the American thriller television series Dexter.
- Britta Perry (played by Gillian Jacobs), from the American comedy-drama television series Community
- Sarah-Jane Smith (played by Elizabeth Sladen) from the science fiction series Doctor Who
- Michael Stivic (played by Rob Reiner) and his wife Gloria Stivic (played by Sally Struthers) in the American television sitcom All in the Family.
- Lindsay Weir (played by Linda Cardellini), from the American comedy-drama television series Freaks and Geeks
- Jeff Winger (played by Joel McHale) from the American television series Community
- Cristina Yang (played by Sandra Oh), from the medical drama Grey's Anatomy
- Dr. Daniel Pierce (played by Eric McCormack), from the crime drama Perception
- Patrick Jane (played by Simon Baker), from the crime drama The Mentalist
- Kurt Hummel (played by Chris Colfer), from the musical comedy-drama Glee
- Loretta West (played by Antonia Prebble), from the New Zealand drama Outrageous Fortune
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“Addison DeWitt: Your next move, it seems to me, should be toward television.
Miss Caswell: Tell me this. Do they have auditions for television?
Addison DeWitt: That’s all television is, my dear. Nothing but auditions.”
—Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)
“So by all means let’s have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn’t it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy’s edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create “one world.” Instead of one world, we have “star wars,” and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet’s dead.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)