`` Last year your Tennessee Williams told our Dilys Powell, in a television program, that it is the task of the playwright to throw light into the dark corners of the human heart.

The club was ridiculed during the 1980s with a milk advert on television, in which a young boy boasted that Ian Rush had told him that " if didn't drink lots of milk, when up, only be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley ".

According to Arnaz, the CBS network told him, " You cannot show a pregnant woman on television ".

The story of Donald Campbell's last attempt at the water speed record on Coniston Water was told in the BBC television film Across the Lake in 1988, with Anthony Hopkins as Donald.

* Ronald Munson used an epistolary style in " Fan Mail " ( 1994 ), where the entire plot is told using e-mails, letters, transcripts of television shows and telephone conversations, faxes, and interactions with a computer program called ELIZA.

Chapman later told a story in his college tour that when he went public, a member of the television audience wrote to the Pythons to complain that she had heard a member of the team was gay, adding that the Bible said any man who lies with a man should be taken out and stoned.

A member of Harrogate council, one of those that banned the film, revealed during a television interview that the council had not seen the film, and had based their opinion on what they had been told by the Nationwide Festival of Light, of which they knew nothing.

In 1987, the story told in Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future, a made-for-television movie, formed the basis of a full-fledged drama television series.

Many weeks before his departure, in a videotaped interview carried in the online magazine Monaco Revue, Patinkin told journalists at the Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo that he loathed violence on television and was uncomfortable with certain scenes in Criminal Minds.

LTTE spokesman Anton Balasingham told the Indian television channel NDTV that the killing was a " great tragedy, a monumental historical tragedy which we deeply regret.

In an interview for a retrospective television special, David McCallum described a visit to the White House during which a Secret Service agent told him, " You're the reason I got this job.

In a British television documentary about his career, his widow Eleanor told producers of Thames Television that Keaton was up out of bed and moving around, and even played cards with friends who came to visit at their house the day before he died.

" The first day I saw him on the set ," co-producer Ian Praiser told Rolling Stone, " I thought, ' Too bad he won't be in television for long.

" The television show had come out of nowhere ," best friend Tom Lizzio told Rolling Stone.

In June 1998, Nicole Rothschild was reported to have told an American television show that Moore was " waiting to die " due to a serious illness, but these reports were denied by Suzy Kendall.

However, in May 2004 he told Portuguese state-run television RTP, that he would not allow his name to be put up for nomination.

In one television statement, I told him when we were debating on TV, that he had pulled a sock over his head more often than I had pulled one on my feet.

He told Russian television the newly unearthed bones belonged to two young people: a young male aged roughly 10 – 13 and a young woman about 18 – 23.

The Queen told Dame Thora Hird during a 2001 meeting that Last of the Summer Wine was her favourite television programme.

On the television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, each episode was framed as though it were being told by an older Indy ( usually a very elderly George Hall, though one featured Harrison Ford ).

Gorey was also an unashamed pop-culture junkie, avidly following soap operas and television comedies like Petticoat Junction and Cheers, and he had particular affection for dark genre series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Batman: The Animated Series and The X-Files ; he once told an interviewer that he so enjoyed the Batman series that it was influencing the visual style of one of his upcoming books.

Screenwriter Graham Yost was told by his father, Canadian television host Elwy Yost, about a film called Runaway Train starring Jon Voight, about a train that speeds out of control.

Lost creator and Star Trek director J. J. Abrams claimed the episode as his favorite, saying, " episode is a beautiful demonstration of the burden of adulthood, told in The Twilight Zone, which everyone thinks is a scary show, but it's actually a beautiful show ," and " The Twilight Zone at its best is better than anything else I've ever seen on television.

While there, he was told that the producers of the television series Dallas wanted to speak with him.

The state of labour in America was troubling to Chaplin ; he told an interviewer, " Something is wrong.

He told the interviewer:

Dixon told an interviewer that he even cleared the name with New Orleans ' Archbishop Philip M. Hannan: " He thought it would be a good idea.

Biblical violence is a theme of Doolittles " Dead " and " Gouge Away "; Francis told a Melody Maker interviewer, " It's all those characters in the Old Testament.

In May 1989, Arafat, in a statement later criticized by Edward Said as being beyond his authority, and properly a matter for the PNC, told a French TV interviewer " C ' est caduc ", meaning that it, the Charter, was null and void.

Ownership of the concept was retained by the BBC ; Pemberton later told an interviewer for Doctor Who Magazine, " I'm very cross that the sonic screwdriver — which I invented — has been marketed with no credit to myself.

After Bono's death, Mary told an interviewer from TV Guide that Sonny had been addicted to and was seriously abusing prescription drugs, mainly Vicodin and Valium.

In an interview, Tarantino told interviewer Samuel Blumenfeld, " Spielberg is doing something unheard of with the opening of this movie.

Gerasimov told the interviewer that, " We now have the Frank Sinatra doctrine.

Saddam Hussein later told an FBI interviewer that he once left open the possibility that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction in order to appear strong against Iran.

In 2009, Aragonés told an interviewer, “ I ’ m thinking and laughing all day long.

She told an interviewer, " I don't know if there was an actual working script!

Karl Hardman told an interviewer that the music came from the extensive film music library of WRS Studio.

Keaton told interviewer Fletcher Markle that Harry Houdini happened to be present one day when the young Keaton took a tumble down a long flight of stairs without injury.

In 1964, he told an interviewer that in making " this particular pork pie ", he " started with a good Stetson and cut it down ", stiffening the brim with sugar water.

Carte told an interviewer at that time that he had fifteen theatrical companies and performers touring simultaneously in Europe, America and Australia.

He told one interviewer, " I think acting is magic.

Years later, he told another interviewer that his greatest concern was that too much publicity would limit his opportunities as a character actor after he left the role.

He claimed the Asians had " discovered a loophole " and he told a BBC interviewer: " Public opinion in this country was extremely agitated, and the consideration that was in my mind was how we could preserve a proper sense of order in this country and, at the same time, do justice to these people – I had to balance both considerations ".

In the mid-1980s Callaghan told an interviewer that he was an atheist.

In June 2009, Marr told an interviewer on London's XFM, " I think we were offered 50 million dollars for three ... possibly five shows.

" Tolkien wrote to W. H. Auden that The Marvellous Land of Snergs " was probably an unconscious source-book for the Hobbits " and he told an interviewer that the word hobbit " might have been associated with Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt " ( like hobbits, George Babbitt enjoys the comforts of his home ).

For example, Hopper once told an interviewer that he was " fond of Early Sunday Morning ... but it wasn't necessarily Sunday.

In 2003 he told an interviewer for the Montreal Mirror that he loves to have men urinate on him.