Below is a list of television shows that have been made up in real television shows or other media. Characters who work in television are interesting to viewers. An early example of the show within a show format was The Jack Benny Program which had been popular on radio and took the same format to the new medium of television.
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, fictional, television and/or shows:
“My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.”
—Polly Berrien Berends (20th century)
“I made a list of things I have
to remember and a list
of things I want to forget,
but I see they are the same list.”
—Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.”
—Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)
“... there is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.”
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)
“Some think to avoid the influence of metaphysical errors, by paying no attention to metaphysics; but experience shows that these men beyond all others are held in an iron vice of metaphysical theory, because by theories that they have never called in question.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)