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going on cable. which is a network problem. >> we are department on sponsors. there's so much we can do in terms of language, if terms of violence and in term os sex. >> to a large degree networks were sanding off the edges of what was interesting. >> i think hbo is looking at world and going, okay, how can we matter? for quite a long time, movies and boxing for the bread and butter. >> people watch your show because you're a [ bleep ]. >> i think what we learned through the larry sanders show or "os" is that we could do series television. >> there's something in the air, and it ain't love. >> "oz" was cutting edge in what it was willing to share with the audience. >> hit me! hit me! hit me in the face. >> complicated characters,

complicated issues and the way it was presented was so unique. >> sentence, nine years. up for probably in six. >> what they were doing at hbo was exactly what the network wasn't doing. they were breaking barriers. you get to the sopranos and all of a sudden the villain is the hero. >> have some eggplant. >> i told you. i'm not hung are i. >> now you won't even accept food from our own mother. >> it was david price's invention of a mop family. the idea that a mobster is seeing a their miss. >> whatever happened to gary cooper? the strong silent type? that was an american. he wasn't in touch with his feelings. he just did what he had to do. what they didn't know is once they got gary cooper in touch with his feelings, they wouldn't be able to shut him up.

then it's dysfunction this and dysfunction that. >> you have strong feelings like this. >> you get colombo. you can't imagine anybody else afterwards. james is that. >> it's a mafia story. >> it's also about every day life. >> duh know an italian invented the telephone? >> alexander graham bell was an italian? >> he was an italian and he got robbed. >> who invented the mafia? >> what? >> they took the mystery off being a mobster. and it was somehow more mundane than we would guess it to be and yet every bit as riveting as "the godfather." >> you were like a prosecutor to me. to all of us. >> the debate raged at hbo about

whether you could have a guy like this as your lead. and david chase was adamant that you have to. this is who he is. and he was right. >> did you assure me that tony soprano isn't going to become a sensitive and murderturing and mellow man in. >> yes. >>' oh good. >> oh, my god. >> it's all right. i'll be home in a couple of hours. don't worry. >> i'm graduating tomorrow. >> carmela was a wife and a mother. first and foremost. as long as she was going church, she felt like i'm taking care of my soul. >> where's the money? >> she goes home to her husband who has blood had been him. there's no way to reconcile the two thingsle until their marriage was falling apart. >> i used to [ bleep ] your

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moments in cinema. >> you look at the year that "american beauty" won the oscar, also the year the sopranos debuted and almost immediately after that the two mediums diverged. >> i know what i must do, but i'm afraid do it. >> movies became focused oin big tent pole things that could bring in as much of an audience as you can. tv started going smaller and more interior and started saying we want to tell stories for grownups. ♪ i'll be help for christmas >> i had an idea of doing a show about death. >> are you smoking? >> no. >> yes, you are. i heard you. >> i'm not. no, i'm not. >> look, forget you'll give yourself cancer and die a slow

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>> it was originally based on mark wahlberg's life. it was not about show business. it was these four guys who were life long guys who could [ bleep ] each other and stay friends. >> they want to throw $4 million at you. >> are you smiling? >> yeah, i'm smiling. >> you got my balls tingling that way. they drive that way in tee yen man square? >> willing to be ruthless, but also a family man, with that mean in the sand. you don't know where that line is which makes him a more interesting character. >> i just read an article in the "new york times" -- >> you read the "new york times"? >> yeah. >> you reed traed new republic? >> no. >> it's interesting it says you don't know what the [ bleep ] you're talking about.

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>> hey, daddy, you want a date with mama? >> get in the car. >> "curb" came because larry wanted to do a special. it was his -- you know, just, uh, follow my life. but he would only make it with the stipulation that if he didn't like it, he could buy it back. lucky for us, he liked it. >> are you trying to act like you ain't with me? >> no, i'm not trying to do that. >> i will pull a [ bleep ] out. >> don't you dare do that. >> the actors wouldn't get an outline for the show. they wouldn't even read what the scene was about. >> judy! >> judy! >> oh, my god! >> by the way, that shelf coming down was not planned. that shelf really did come down and larry and jeff just acted their way through it. >> what do i do? >> stick it in your jacket. >> it's too big. >> do something, she's coming up! >> i think "curb" in many ways is the ultimate descendant of

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>> my god! dwight! what are you doing? >> we search for the organs. where is the heart? the precious heart. >> that show works. everybody you go to in that cast is hilarious. >> oh, my god! >> oh my god. dwight! >> the mockumentary format was different and all of a sudden it became something that you just realized the audience was very comfortable and very conversant. >> hey, park lady. >> yeah? >> you suck. >> hear that? he called me park lady. >> "the office," "parks and rec," "modern family," the conceit is they're making a documentary. >> i'm okay. i'm good. i'm good. >> the idea of these shows is they sit down on the couch or catch them in a separate part of the office and everybody does a confessional like reality television. >> i've gained a few extra pounds while we were expecting the baby, which has been very difficult. but apparently your body does

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challenges that existed. but the biggest challenge by far was the performance challenge. >> 802. five votes jumped the fence. five votes jumped the fence. >> because beginning, middle, and end of the scenes sometimes in one take, and it was liberating and also intimidating. >> what the hell happened? >> we don't know. >> give me names. >> i love "the west wing" because it's a complete fantasy of a political world that is so healthily bipartisan and it shows people intensely and emotionally grappling with the hard questions. >> 40% of americans have a gun in their home. only 16% believe gun ownership is an absolute right. only 9% believe it's an absolute wrong. there's a middle and we can win them. >> they presented both sides as being human beings who cared. >> not being my vice president, is it? >> no, sir. >> this is a valentine toward public service that i think people were hungry for. and so this was a group of people just trying to make the world better. >> alexander hamilton didn't think we should have political

parties. neither did john addams. they felt it led to divisiveness. >> "the manchurian candidate" couldn't destroy us faster than barack obama. >> critics now claim the administration is actually pressuring certain disabled veterans to, quote, hurry up and die. >> what you saw in the media universe in the 2000s was the splintering of the political audience. >> roger ailes had the brilliant idea of creating a network for conservatives, thus fox news. >> the controversy over john kerry and his vietnam war medals has just gotten worse. >> msnbc kind of stumbled into the idea of a liberal counterpart. >> people watch fox news thinking there's news in it. racists, loons and pinheads. >> there was no longer a shared,

factual basis for our political views. we didn't all go home and watch walter cronkite. >> "crossfire." on the left, james carville and paul begala. on the right, robert novak and tucker carlson. in the crossfire -- >> i remember when jon stewart went on "crossfire." it was 2004. john kerry was the democratic presidential nominee facing george w. bush. and i thought, you know, watching it, i said, this is going to be a funny show. >> can i say something very quickly? why do we have to fight? the two of you, can't we just say something nice about john kerry, right now. >> i like john. i care about john kerry. >> and something about president bush. >> he'll be unemployed soon. >> anyone who enjoyed paying attention to the news and watched "the daily show" will forever remember jon stewart going on "crossfire" and reading those guys the riot act. >> you're doing theater when you should be doing debate.

it's not honest. what you do is partisan hackery. and i'll tell you why i know it. >> you had john kerry on your show and you kiss his throne and you accuse us of hackery? >> the show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls. what is wrong you? >> comedians and satire when done right will take on hypocrisy no matter where it comes from. >> i think the vice president and is his wife love their daughter. i think they love her very much. and you can't have anything but respect for the fact that they're willing to talk about the fact that they have a gay daughter. >> yes, we admire your love for your gay daughter. >> if they've stepped in it, a trusted comic will bring that to the forefront. and i think that that's what people like about "the daily show." >> there is an upcoming

election, evidently. i didn't know that. >> you're our chief political correspondent, stephen. every two years we elect a brand-new house of representatives, a third of the senate. it's called the midterm elections. >> i only vote when the big kahunas are up. el presidente. i can't be running around every two years voting. i have a life. >> colbert then becomes the companion show, so compelling to watch. this hilarious pseudo conservative dumb guy. >> and who are the heroes? the people who watch this show. average hard working americans. you're not the elites. you're not the country club crowd. i know for a fact that my country club would never let you in. >> one of the things about being on "the colbert report" and stephen would say it himself,

was, he was playing a character. >> the book is "the nine: inside the spooky world of the supreme court." >> stephen had to respond in real time to the guests as his character, not as himself, which was an incredible feat of acting as well as kind of quasi journalism. >> that's a big part of the book, is how much do the justices' political views play a role in how much they decide cases. >> why would political views go into it? except the activist judges, the four liberal activist judges, i could understand that, because they're activist judges. but the conservative judges are not activists. they're inactivists. >> they, umm -- yeah, i guess you're exactly right. >> what i remember is the moment that barack obama was named president of the united states.

>> cnn projects that barack obama is the next president of the united states of america. it is now official. he has passed the 270 electoral votes. >> when you watch the tape, you can see that colbert begins to cry. and that character can't cry because that's not what that character does. and jon stewart, he loves colbert so much as a human being, he covers for colbert. >> 297 for barack obama. 139 for john mccain. i'm a four-year-old ring bearer with a bad habit of swallowing stuff. still won't eat my broccoli, though. and if you don't have the right overage, you could be paying for that pricey love band yourself. so get an allstate agent, and be better protected from mayhem. like me. can a ring bearer get a snack around here?

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the very interesting statistic, people, their favorite shows, be it "csi," be it "er." the most faithful fan watches that show two out of four weeks. >> there was general fear and anxiety, and they had the data to back it up, that shows that became increasingly serialized would lose viewership over time. >> lex, don't! >> because of the audience misses an episode, they would be inclined to stop watching it because they would feel like, i missed one and now i don't know what's happening. >> there had been amazing shows that had been serialized. they never had syndication value because you couldn't revisit them. but there's almost no better hook. it's like a book you can't turn down, you go, i'm going to watch a little bit more.

>> "24" was set to debut in november of 2001. the pilot climaxes with an assassin blowing up a passenger jet in midair. fox orders this. fox schedules it. 9/11 happens. suddenly the show which seemed like this goofy thing about keifer sutherland chasing after middle eastern terrorists becomes the most timely show on television because that is all that anyone in america can talk about after september 11th. >> the name for the series comes from the idea that it's 24 episodes in a season. each episode is one hour in a day. and jack bauer just has the worst days. >> we are running out of time. pull the trigger. >> please don't make me do this. >> i know how hard this is for you but if you care about me at all, you'll pull the trigger. >> i'm sorry, i can't. >> pull the trigger, damn you!

>> the commercial breaks in that show were almost welcome so that you could catch your breath. >> "24" was really the first binge show, if you think about it. there were a lot of people in the later years of "24" that would only buy the dvds. >> you think he'll come after you? >> yes. >> and a lot of the subtleties and complexities, it's a, my god, this is blowing my mind, i can see it because i just watched three in a row. >> "battlestar galactica" was a show from the '80s. years later, sci-fi channel looked at it and said, what if we take it seriously? >> madam president, we have to eliminate the olympic carrier immediately. >> there are 1,300 people on that ship.

>> "star wars" feels like fantasy and fable in the best possible sense. this felt like war. >> do it. >> the photography was shot very much like world war ii combat cameramen work. >> fire on my mark. >> no frackin' way, lee. lee, come on! >> it was as if someone was floating in space with an old world war ii film rolling and oh, here comes a cylon, i want to get this shot. i really was riveted by it. >> it's classic sci-fi in that it's using the robots and the spaceships and the clones to comment on the world we live in right now. >> i can't die. when this body is destroyed, my memory, my consciousness will be transmitted to a new one. >> the cylons look and act and feel like humans. by the time you get to the middle of "battlestar galactica," you don't know who you're rooting for anymore.

>> it was like "west wing" in space. >> madam president, without you we wouldn't have made it. >> it was just a very rich world. it felt lived-in. it felt real. and the stakes could not have been higher. >> i think "lost" is the first huge cinematic tv show i saw. i remember gathering at a friend's house to watch. and it was long enough ago and the internet was still young enough and social media was i mean -- it was what, friendster? >> j.j. abrams' ambition for the "lost" pilot was grandiose. he always talked about it as making a movie every week. i think when we say the word "cinematic," what we really mean

is opening it up a little more but also the ambition of an action set piece. j.j. was very aggressive. he was like, if you want me to do this pilot you're going to need to give me the resource in order to do it and i want to shoot it as a movie, and then we have to keep that bar up. >> you start off, you think, this is just a survival drama. here's these people, the plane is crashed, how are they going to get by, how are they going to find food, et cetera? >> we hunt. >> and on top of that, there's this whole mystery, where are we, why can't we get a rescue signal, why is there a polar bear, what is going on here? >> the show averages more than 15.5 million viewers each week and spawned countless web locations where millions of avid fans can obsess. >> the fan base is saying, when are you going to answer these mysteries? personally i started feeling hamstrung story-wise almost

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format filmed in front of a live studio audience -- >> so i guess this is it. >> -- was getting kind of tired and getting kind of stale. >> you guys play the most important part. the live studio audience. >> now, there is no form of television that makes as much money for the networks as multicamera tv shows. we write a four-camera show. we write it, direct it, perform it, rehearse it like a play in front of a studio audience. when someone gets a laugh on that stage, they actually hold, as you do not in real life, as you do not in single camera, you are holding for that laugh. >> it's an abstract. >> not abstract enough. >> you've done an amazing job. >> it looks like something, though.

what does it look like? >> if you get close, you can even touch it. >> i'm fine. >> this is bugging me. where have i seen this before? >> we started studying what phil rosenthal was doing with "raymond." he was embracing the very best of what the genre could do. which was interesting characters. he provided me with a very, very loud reminder that i didn't need to fix anything. i didn't need to knock any boundaries or walls over. i just need you to embrace what was there. >> i had been in so many shows that had failed spectacularly that i became known as the show killer. ♪ men, men, manly men >> that's not a great thing to be known as in show business.

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>> two people talking is the essence of a four-camera sitcom. lighting is not really an issue. there is no music that's going to help the material. >> checkmate. >> there is no specific effects. >> again? >> hopefully good words with good actors. >> it must be humbling to suck on so many different levels. >> "big bang" had this weird hurdle, it seemed, not only are you fighting the natural fight that every show does about getting an audience, trying to stay on the air and keep your job, yadda yadda. >> make way for the fastest man alive! >> see, this is why i wanted to have a costume meeting. >> but then there was also this weird wave of energy coming in like, you're in a genre that's

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>> we should mention that although the waters above appear calm, below the surface there is a frenzy of activity. >> one of the hallmarks of "snl" is you need somebody to play the president. and will's dubya was stellar. >> will ferrell's george w. >> can i get those antlers? >> there you go, son. >> cow bell was fantastic. not only because it's a great concept but because will really gets to be will. >> the last time i checked, we don't have a whole lot of songs that feature the cow bell. i got to have my cow bell, baby. i'll be doing myself a disservice and every member of this band if i didn't perform

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allegory for what was going on with the gay community, with aids, with political backlash. it's like, there's monsters all over. but the scariest, most deadly characters in the whole show are the human beings. >> showtime looked at tony soprano and they said, you want an antihero? how about a mass murderer who is the hero of our show? >> "dexter" is about a blood spatter expert who is secretly a serial killer. >> soon he'll be packed into a few neatly wrapped hefties and my own small corner of the world

will be a neater, happier place. >> he was raised by a policeman to channel his sociopathic impulses to only kill other killers. so he is a bad guy but also a good guy. >> i kill reprehensible people. i mean, the idea of the show is that you're invited to identify with and maybe even root for a serial killer. >> that's right. >> he kills horrible people. if i were just killing people willy-nilly, i think all bets would be off. >> where's the fun in that? >> in the 2000s, the antihero really rose to prominence. >> my nephew has the same gun. don't point that there. >> nice work. >> and i think they were popular because they were surprising. >> you're a free woman.

>> you struck a deal? >> the d.a. dropped the charges. >> thank you. >> a show for me that was incredibly memorable was "damages." >> now where's the tape? >> it really was about following the twisted relationship of patty and ellen. >> what are you looking at it for? >> fraud. conspiracy. obstruction of justice. >> mr. nye tells us i may have reasons of your own for wanting to take down ms. hughes. >> yes. i do. >> i was just so taken with the fact that there was this incredibly dark, unapologetically, morally compromised lead character who was a woman. >> i told pete to have you killed. >> it was sort of the beginning

of a real emergence of rich women on television. >> all right. sure, take my last one. this will help. >> is this cab free? >> are you [ bleep ] nuts? >> i have heard nurse jackie" referred to as an antihero. she was at the mercy of her addiction that always got her attention. but beyond that, she really cared that there wasn't money in the budget for extra blankets for someone off the street and she would go and steal it from another department. she really wanted to be a good nurse. and she wanted to be married and she wanted these kids and she wanted to be a good wife and mother. >> why do you always have to work? >> yeah. >> and there was no way she could do all of them. >> mommy!

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to do scripted programming for the first time. a manager said, oh, i have this great script set in the advertising world in new york. it's been around for eight years. and nobody's bought it. everybody's passed. >> advertising is based on one thing. happiness. >> don draper is a master of the universe ad executive in mid-1960s manhattan. but he's stolen the identity of the real don draper due to an incident during the korean war. he's living another man's life but battling his demons at the same time. we're seeing him rise and fall over the course of the 1960s. in a lot of ways, the most interesting arc of the show is peggy olson's career. she goes from this little church mouse secretary to a really tough and bold and confident career woman. >> i like the way she's handing out the pops. >> who knows what to do and will

try to get it even during a really sexist period for the industry when it was so hard for women to get anything. >> peggy, can you get me some coffee? >> no. >> the female characters in "mad men" are great because they each represent different aspects of when women were going through at that time. >> daddy! >> i had this incredible experience of reading "the feminine mystique" and "sex and the single girl" in the same week. >> you glide around that office like some magnificent ship. >> and i said, this is my show. >> you're never going to get that corner office until you start treating don as an equal. >> it is the choice of what kind of person to be for a woman. >> i'm here all day, alone with them, outnumbered. >> what about carla? >> it's not her job to raise our children. >> it was incorporating the music of the times, the images of the times, the history of the times, and the attitudes of the times.

>> what color panties are you wearing? >> what! >> blue! who had blue? >> can i walk you home? >> "mad men" had absolutely no nostalgia for the period. it showed that people were jerks and adulterers and connivers even back in the glory days of the 1960s. >> what are you doing? >> how they communicated the kennedy assassination was actually exactly as it came to pass. >> they drew their pistols but the damage was done. >> everything stopped. nothing seemed important ever again. and it just so happened to be the weekend that roger's daughter was getting married, it was a big wedding. [ crying ]

>> i would put "mad men" and "sopranos" as the most important shows in the history of television. >> i was about to turn 40 years old. and this was about 2004, two years after the end of "the x files." i was at sea, wasn't sure what to do next. frankly, i was having trouble getting employed. my buddy tom had been on "the x files" too. he said, we should put a meth lab on the back of an rv, see america, make some dough on the side. he's got a warped sense of humor more. when i heard that idea, i thought to myself, you know, what if i really did that, what would it take?

and then i thought, well, i made money doing bad, why would i make money? we pitched "breaking bad" to not even a handful of places. some people liked it, some people not so much. it had kind of been dead for six months or a year or something like that. suddenly i hear, would you like to go meet the folks at amc, they're interested in doing "breaking bad." >> surprise! >> we absolutely were looking for an antihero show. and we wanted a guy that was going against the grain. >> dad, come check this out. come on, take it. >> they always tell you, you need to have a good one are did sentence pitch. i came up with, we're going to take mr. chips and we're going to turn him into scarface. what we were really going for was change.

walter white says it in the first hour of the show. >> electrons. they change their energy levels. molecules. molecules change their bonds. >> "breaking bad" was a study in change. the change that happens to one character as he devolves from good to bad. >> you know the business. and i know the chemistry. >> there was definitely a shift after "mad men" and "breaking bad" that the phones started ringing and a ton of feature people wanted to start making tv shows. >> can you pass the butter, please? >> bad ass dad. >> now it really has taken over what the indie feature was. now he's being made in the tv sphere.

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are the chances we never took. >> there's an old showbiz axiom, you have to get off the stage before somebody says, hey, you should get off the stage. ♪ all that you dream >> endings are hard, in general. and i think "the sopranos," was able to accomplish this thing that everybody is trying to accomplish, which is do something that nobody has ever seen before. ♪ >> tony is meeting the family at a restaurant. and we're listening to a journey song and watching as, one by one, the family members come in and there's these sinister people lurking around. ♪ strangers >> you were wondering, was tony going to survive this? was tony going to be shot? what was going to happen?

>> [ bleep ]. >> you're cutting to meadowi parking a car. all of these things that are normal, but they're imbued with this dread. ♪ don't stop believing hold on to that feeling ♪ ♪ street light people, whoa ♪ don't stop >> the long black, in which everybody said, did i just lose my hbo signal? what's going on there? i thought it was kind of like the chord at the end of sgt. pepper where the major just does this -- and it goes on and on and on. that black was sort of like what the series needed in order to communicate the fact that it is now officially over. >> as for "sopranos" creator,

david chase, he got whacked in the headlines. he got whacked by the "new york post" cartoonist, showing fans getting whacked. >> three or four days later, we were talking to a couple of television critics about how amazing it was and they were like, there's a lot of controversy about "the sopranos" finale. we were like, what? some people hate it. the whole cut to black, nobody knows what it means. they're discussing whether tony is alive or dead. and those are the things that make it brilliant. and we realized then, that we're totally [ bleep ]ed. ♪ >> if you've been fortunate enough to be successful, they've gone along for a long ride with you. and the viewer has a through line for every character and the show that you could never possibly have. >> you know i love you, right? more than anything.

>> of course, honey. >> so, it is a fool's errand to try to please anyone but yourself when you're writing a series finale. >> finales have become increasingly more important, how if you don't do a really good finale to a really good series, the series can sort of lose its luster. but "six feet under" comes up with a perfect ending and the show is enhanced a little bit. tend of "six feet under," has the daughter just driving away in the car and music starts to play. it's "breathe me." and she looks up in the rear-view mirror, so, she's looking backwards. but then, the show looks ahead.

♪ ouch, i have lost myself again lost myself and i don't know when ♪ >> that feeling ended and everybody died. and i thought it was brilliant. >> the work on tv is as good as any work that's on a big screen. and so, that hierarchy of film and television, i think, has been changed dramatically. partially because of the great work that people did at hbo and also because of the work they did at a lot of other places. >> i've waited a long time for this. >> coming up as an actor, film was the thing and tv was less

than. >> i say [ bleep ]. >> so, to suddenly be in an era where we could tell these rich stories -- >> entrance has been gained. >> and really create the suspense of them and the trajectory of them. >> get over whatever it is and do your job. >> in ways we couldn't necessarily do in film. i think that led to where we are now, where everybody wants to do tv. >> sit down, you guys. [ laughter ] >> oh, yeah. you can't sit there. >> why not? >> that's where sheldon sits. >> he can't sit somewhere else? >> oh, no. you see, in the winter, that seat is close enough to the radiator so that he's warm but not so close that he sweats. in the summer, it's directly in the path of a cross-breeze between there and there. he can talk to anybody, but not so wide that the picture looks

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