Television
- Norm Abram 1972, "America's most famous carpenter"
- Rob Corddry 1993, former writer and correspondent for The Daily Show, actor on the television series The Winner
- Bill Cosby 1972G, 1976 Ed.D., actor, comedian, writer, star of The Cosby Show
- Jeff Corwin 2002, Animal Planet's The Jeff Corwin Experience
- Jeffrey Donovan 1991, star of USA original series Burn Notice
- Lauren Koslow, actress on Days of our Lives
- Phil Laak Professional Poker Player nicknamed "The Unabomber"
- Loretta Long 1973 Ph.D., long-time Sesame Street actress
- Ken Ober 1980, American game show host, comedian, and actor.
- Nancy Oliver writer for the series Six Feet Under
- Peter Tolan, television producer, director, and screenwriter
- Mark Wilding 1979, lead writer and executive producer of "Grey's Anatomy"
- Marc Forgione 2010, one of the Iron chefs competing on Food Network's Iron Chef America and owner of restaurant Marc Forgione in New York City. Chef Forgione competed on and won season three of "The Next Iron Chef" in 2010.
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
“So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)