ABC

“I got the president of ABC to sign on a napkin, a contract for a week's work on Good Morning America as an audition to replace Julia Childs, and the guy signed it, and he dated it, and I took the napkin.”

“I had this one big fear about sexuality that kind of obliterated all other fears. And so I was not, it turned out, which I was a total discovery because I didn't know it. Of course I'd never been in such confrontations. I had no fear of business situations. I …”

“Neither President Trump nor the FCC Chairman Brendan Carr did that. The reason why Kimmel lost his job is because the two largest affiliates, which is Nexstar and Sinclair, told ABC Disney that they wouldn't air it anymore.”

“You know what they're talking about replacing Kimmel with? Not another late night performer. Celebrity family feud. Like that's, they're gonna replace it with a game show. That's what they're talking about, replacing it.”

“I got a call that Saturday from Lloyd Braun, who had pitched this thing to me, he was the head of ABC at the time, who said, it's greenlit, we're doing it. And I was like, what the hell are you talking about? And he said, we need the completed pilot done in 12…”

“The biggest challenge, the macro challenge, the most interesting challenges is about that fragmentation and that digital transition. And that's very challenging for a legacy broadcaster like the BBC or like a network in the US, CBS, ABC, when you can see those…”

“Yeah, literally what does Bob Iger want, and they said he really wants a medical show, and I thought, okay.”

“So ABC, we've done away with all that. We've incentivized collaboration. So there's no concept of this is my deal or your deal. I might have responsibility for certain aspects of it because of course there needs to be Delegation. But there's no concept of rewa…”

“As it turns out, it sold over a million albums overnight, and then the people at CBS and NBC and ABC, they, well, you know, all of a sudden they wanted to have lunch.”

“In terms of what people don't know about those kind of shows is they film you for 14 to 16 hours a day and ask you the same questions over and over again, and it's just physically, it was physically and emotionally very taxing.”