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inspired me to be true to myself and be honest with everyone around me to count so thank you so very much for creating something so beautiful. >> and meaningful to me wow somewhere in this country that one life has been saved. if, if i've done that's the best thing i've i've done. yeah, the best thing i've ever done ms morgan, i have just one question for you. are you gay >> yes, i am susan
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with 150 channels that might be available in the near future, there's a lot of things that we did so that you couldn't have on network television. people are really trying to do something adventures tv has a developed but mental effect on our young people know who was lead excellence is hard. >> it's very rare, which is why there are very few good shows and those that are good stand out
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nice when the 90s begin, we're starting to see lot of experimentation senses was inspired by it. well necessarily hatred of television, but a distrust of a lot of the ways in which television was talking to us. >> tv, respect me. it left with me not at me
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i love you guys but you're sort of warm, safe humor is literally so to the rap music which gives them the brain damage. and i think there was a real yearning for another type of humor hood what a bit further, which at the time and i stress at the time was bill cosby as the shining example. >> stuff they got away with because it's cartoon the father strangling the child. are you to strengthen the american
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family to make american families a lot more like the walton's and a lot less like the simpsons we go towards completely bizarre period of time in 1992 when a sitting president is raging against a sitcom they have dealt with popular culture, their dealt with all kinds of issues of racism and sexism funny girls were gone this is the right way to they have found a way to talk about everything that's going on and our allies through the filter the substance immigrants, they want all the benefits are living in springfield, but they ain't even bothered to learn themselves that language. >> yeah those are exactly my set to ammonium things that's happening with the simpsons is a distrust of
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anyone who tells us that we should trust and doesn't earn that trust owned. i'll take that statue of justice to sold and when they make fun of how fox works, you are watching fox. we are watching they telling you don't trust us hi there. >> my shorts. >> all right. i'll keep your shorts. the simpsons is like shakespeare in the sense that we quote the simpsons all the time. very often without even knowing it. >> excellent. >> i wish i could create something that culturally indelible. it's unlike anything else tvs ever rot nowhere the beginning of the decade and the pilot episode of that was one of the strangest and most exciting things i've ever seen in another twin peaks county more with the body of the was her name?
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how slowly in the beginning the news spread around this little town that this young, beautiful girl had died and that haunting music was so dark and so beautiful >> going to essentially a art film doing in primetime television? american network television has long been considered the home of the bland, the cautious and the predictable so it was with some trepidation that the abc network recently launched a new series that was none of those things twin peaks has already
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been described by one critic as the series that will change tv. it's directed by david lynch. >> david lynch was a filmmaker known for his tastes in the eccentric and memorable the idea that he would do network television in the 90s was crazy. you watched much of it. >> well, i like the idea of television, but i'm too busy to see very much of it. >> and what do you think of that, which you do see on television? >> well, some of it i no, i really enjoy. >> are you being diplomatic sort of a vision is do you have the chance to do a continuing story and that's the main reason for doing it. i think that twin peaks with the initial attention that it got allowed all the other networks to say, let's do something different. >> the days common in 08 going to be long when you even have
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to leave your living room no more schools, no more bodega is no more tabernacles, no more center plexus. all right. he got to snuggle up to your fiber optics baby in bliss out, you could sense the successful creators trying to see how they could do things different than they'd done five or ten years ago sometimes that led to really challenging network television. that was cool and fund to watch. and sometimes it just seemed to fall off the edge a little bit. >> at the time, steven botch go was a very successful producer of our dramas and wanted to try something brand new. >> beliefs we have the lord and so his idea was to combine a gritty cop show with a broadway musical i saw one in which a bunch of gang bangers were in jail and they began to sing
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life in the hood, ain't no pizza pie. >> everybody die when the bullets fly minute he did now, whose. >> remember just it's circled the drain i'm creative. we proud of it. >> still, you know, i'm very glad we tried it don't think i don't want to do it again watching and then the next day, our world change. murphy has baby, quayle has cow bones
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coming out episodes says the world gets okay to be gay george bush does not care about black people i never said something that i wrote with me to a culture ward. >> you didn't shoot back like this and watch you sound tv on the edge. >> moments that shaped our culture. next sunday at nine on cnn feeling from a backed-up god we are lacks works naturally with the water in your body to help you go for your gut and your mood will follow for eight grams of fiber and trying mirror fiber gummies it's got let's just perfect for fall, right? feet so long. now to strengthen roots all winter for better loan next spring, i didn't know all this says it right there on the back. >> yes, it does download the my lawn app today for one care tips and customize plans feed the law
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were shocked. >> but now, obviously were not get paid my pay less, me get up to $500 of ma pay when there's no interests, no credit checks, no mandatory fees my pay gives me the freedom to handle whatever life brings. i had big ones and i went for a payday anymore. and you shouldn't either join me at sham.com thank you. pay when di say in 1990, 91, there was not a whole lot of original programming for cable, but they were airing movies so we needed to compete. >> and i felt that if we didn't, we were we're going to, you know, kind of get swept out doing a cop show that was r rated when abc's broadcast standards red r script they want to preserve
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pencil drawing pictures of breasts to try to show them what, what we would show on what we wouldn't show grown up sitting in a room doodling, then we started on the language. we heard some reported called a lowlife fashold third pimp, but the brains of a flea and a balls of a mosque the program premiered with an advertising boycott hit. had boycott lasted oh, for weeks they could use the nudity and the curse words to go deeper into the actual emotional burden of being a cop. >> i'm going to ask i'm going to ask. >> and it had this carroll carter, andy supports he is raging alcoholic racist, sexist, violent she created the tv anti-hero. >> i know that great african american george walker washington carver discovered
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the peanut, but can you provide names and addresses of these friends you know, you are racist scumbag despite his flaws, despite his prejudices, i think people identified with this pain i wish there was a way to say this. the one hurt you must the ones there's a famous early episode where they're investigating the rape and murder of a young boy and they find a homeless child molester, who murdered the kid. and simowitz to get the confession has to be like very sensitive and very good cop anonymous has got to be tearing up inside but you're going to feel a lot better. >> refused to tell the truth. >> you can see on denis francis face, this is killing him to not destroy this guy right now. and finally, he gets the confession. he gets a signed statement he walks out of the room. he goes to another interrogation room and he breaks the door into with his fist
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about it right now because like that's how great a moment of tv that as 20 years from now, the best tv drama is what they look like? i don't know. i don't i don't know where he bolted. >> what we see today. >> oh, assuredly sure. they won't be the 90s gave us several shows that didn't really explode in the ratings, but we're very influential to other people making television homicide is one of them me with questions on i'm living now in danger zone on homicide life on the street was really innovative in terms of its style. >> it used music in ways that advance the narrative and it also used feature film directors that brought a look and style to the show that really stood out on television two years coming on in your eyes, say no to has come from his eyes agreement with tv they had so many african american characters in the cast that on several occasions they were the only people on camera
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interacting with one another and that sounds like so. but as late as the 90s, that wasn't done on television where cops shoot somebody. >> he stands by it. he picks up the radio and he calls it and he stands by the body if not cops are no better than anybody else in the 90s, television was getting more complicated stories. we're starting to become more episodic characters were starting to develop and change. >> none of that happened on law and order this was a show that completely delivered on let's formula every time you get a crime, let's run it you got the investigation into the crime, you bet to beat packin more than dirty mouth. >> you got an arrest judge. hey, i'm asking you a questions. who's to judge is going to charge this one's on and then you had a trial now, he's badgering, your honor, sit down and shut up, mr. fineman. >> overruled. >> and you will address the court from now on, mr. mccoy. >> so every time you watched
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you got what you came for tell me, doctor all those women you ran through your examination rooms, do you remember their faces or did you not even bother to look up you had in law and order, the kinds of characters that people take to heart, let you take one time if you're an actor and you say what? >> she you know, maybe maybe it's not really such a bad medium after all miranda bottle of mayo, the supreme court's minik decision. the whole thing is a legally obtained. they were both represented by he just get hooked in its life and death and stuff. >> we know what you did. counsel. >> me, ryan 15 minutes. >> it's just like not moving, barely breathing thereof times i've almost passed out watching law and order
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he'd been written as a movie for steven spielberg to direct and so we had this two-hour piece which was reflection of michael's experiences as a medical student, use an andrew cath with 16 needle, you need a large point case. >> they bleeding and you need to translate do you know where to start an iv actually know er is a hospital show, but it's really an action movie yellow urgent, read, critical, and lack healing i got a gurney comes in, people are shouting instructions, climbing up onto the body and doing cpr and solely the racing off to the surgical suite that gurney out of there someone wanders in their tossing or and medical jargon did you see they don't stop to explain what it is you prepped for peritoneal lavage? i think i know what that is. now, but only because i watched a lot of er over the years it is plural a allies. >> you can try, but i think
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it's quite would take it bypass and what directly and the fastest way. >> what do you think? >> but, he attending there was so much information coming at you that i think it made the experience feel as if you had to watch it in the same way that you would watch a film that you had to stay involved in the whole tom i'm on, then you can make that said that people didn't want to watch anybody have. >> anything other than a happy outcome? >> it's not flat line. his fight fifth, another seven makes api when we argued that that wasn't really showing what the world was for physicians respect for the people who did this because i understood how human they were
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guo wengui. shore can help a lot together when sometimes you long ago 11th year and over 93 million people watched the finale. chairs but it's a sad experience for everybody this was our baby for 11 years and we're not going to be around these people every day. >> you people are stealing here to me is my own family we had been serving fake sod's forever. >> it was time for everybody to sit. in fact, i was sipping along with him time goes by so fast people move in and out of your life he must never miss an opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you we had been spend that much time with the same set of people. >> it does become your family, feel pretty lucky to have the friends i do think the legacy of cheers our need to belong
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and i think that's what we as americans are longing for. nike, you guys the final scene of cheers was really what was sam's real first love you can never be unfaithful you're one true love luck. >> his son of a on her and has real first love was the bar anyway while carry-ons still here and i'm waiting for the cast members to come back. so i'd say it's a pretty big law out of the sad, sad, sorrow. and being scared to death that i would very quickly lose my job. i was like, what are we going to do? >> tv is changing dramatically now with 150 channels that might be available in the near future. >> they're more choices than
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ever before. and it's a tough job. you have to try and get a sense of what is the audience going to really make an attachment to in the night? brian friday's cable was coming on strong. so we had to examine who are we going to be well, we wanted to be smart sophisticated, comedy six months ago. >> i was living in boston my wife had left me, which was very painful. then she came back to me which was excruciating well, you know, i thought frazier was dead with cheers build an audience and greg, potential for building up the character to another place act plays
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there's a small boy after the tragic death of my father. >> i kept the pain of that loss buried deep within me. it like a serpent coiled with an adult cave. okay that's it. >> we always assume the audience was smarter than most other people did we played do that. >> she is just unschooled like l-isa do little far to the right. henry higgins, she'll be ready for a bold and no time. >> even to europe with a pig back in pygmalion kelsey grammer played pomposity like nobody has ever seen and got huge laughs. so considered a move until my fingers have completely cleared the piece what's taken so long, but i am analyzing my options like you win, get a broach. >> i like to plan a strategy a good general leading his troops into battle frazier probably stands is the single most successful spin off, at least in history of
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sitcom and the emmy goes to frasier. >> frasier >> thursday nights on nbc, 75 million americans watched thursday night that was at the time one-third of the country what is this stuff does sweater, it's angora one, let's wonderful. the machine that was nbc in the 90s for comedy was untouchable. >> you're not from around here, are you generated so much viewership and money and awards do not need this. the top of our wedding cake when not, if it's not. a scrapbook, it's a freezer. >> we certainly associate nbc of the 90s worth having extremely successful sitcoms. but they weren't the only network that found their way to having some success tgif was on abc the friday, and it was there block of family oriented
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comedies television but these were shows that people adored >> they had just fallen apart over the early part of the 90s and they've gone through a couple of different network executives with an unknown comic. this was the year of seinfeld know hugging know learning and this was a show being made as if it was produced in the year of the dick van dyke show there was hugging, there was learning if you worked for me, your job was to go home, getting a fight with your wife and come back in and tell me about sleep or the
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couch just cleaned down there in fact, the pilot i put in this true thing that happened to me where an i sent my parents a gift for the holidays of the fruit of the month club. >> and did you know you sent me a box of papers yeah. i'm a place called fruit of the month. that's right. that's right. >> and my, mother reacted as if i had sent her a box of heads from a murderer invalid we can't go out and get her own fruit the real connection with your audiences thank god. >> all your families are crazy. >> tube looks like you got the whole family together yeah. >> yeah. it's dysfunction. palooza
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and all of them want their money's worth will now have the strongest network, will have a stronger defense peace this is going to be one dynamite company. >> there's a danger that news will be mixed up with the rest of television and considered just another profit center late 19 early 1930s to earn it in 1980s, sense was when you have some of the broadcasting time to public service but 19, journalism that country changed a great deal you couldn't talk about public service. >> it was one of the radii is going to be one of the demographics going to be what is the profit going to be well sensationalism sells in a plea bargain, 18-year-old amy fisher got up to 15 years in prison for shooting the wife of her alleged lover so intense is the the interest in this case that there are 33 made for tv movies. now in the works about it, he make money off sex. you make money off death. he make
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money off crime. >> the press calls the case the beverly hills mansion murders. and the story reads like one of the unsold scripts that circulate here in hollywood. >> we enter into the world of the television news soap opera was stolen of basic instinct anger and fear are scared i just want him to leave me alone. >> it's so broadcast journalism loses its purity and it becomes much more shati sensationalistic and then it all comes together with oj simpson angeles, the los angeles county district good. >> told me he has just filed murder charges against a orenthal, james, oj simpson. >> i'm going to have to interrupt this call. i understand what he was going to go to to a live picture in los angeles police believe that right now that oj simpson is in that car, the o j. >> simpson story starts with the chase and then goes on to his arrest and then culminates with a trial which goes on and
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on and on. and it's televised day after day after day. >> this is going to be a long trial. there's a lot of evidence to come in. the oj simpson i'm case was such a national phenomenon. that those of us who were covering it just live this case 24 hours a day because there was so much demand for people talking about as simpson struggled to slide that gloves onto his hands. and turn toward jurors saying, they're too small prosecutors were incensed the trial was on television during the hours that had traditionally been the time for soap operas. he appears to have pulled the gloves off, counsel and oj was very much a soap opera. >> he's impeached by his own way. >> i ask that you put a stop to it, either put on me, mr. i've and speak when you're it's your turn. >> no question that the best tv show of the 90s was the oj simpson trial in everybody on it was riveting nbc news and depth tonight, the simpson
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trial finally winding who are close entitled action, find the defendant or jal on the all james simpson not guilty of the crime of murder in violation of penal code section 187 a verdict of the oj simpson trial viewed by 150 million people it's more people than watch presidential election returns that's crazy. because there was trial footage. every day, cnn. saw its audience increase like five times. >> the success of cnn was not lost on other people. >> and so there were competing forces coming into play, had a lighted i am that we've now reached this moment when we can firmly announce the starting of a fox news channel. >> unfortunately, with with cable news and the ability or the need to be on the air 24/7,
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where you tried to get as many eyeballs as possible at one time? to gravitate toward those stories that are sensational you know, it brought us the ability to go too far is the jonbenet ramsey kerner investigation turning into a media circus justice tabloid. but on the other hand, it's a tabloid eero. and here's the point, here's where the fear comes into it. i think larry it's the fear that says cauti if we don't cover it big time, our competition is and when they covered big time, they're going to give big jump in the ratings. and the first thing is to last if we're going to last a glimmer survive, we got to do it well, you also see, is a whole army of commentators, people who make there business talking about the news. >> what i say is what we should do is we should bomb his capability of producing oil, take out his refineries are stations. they don't have any capability of further certainly selling a lot of oil the networks doing good journalists, but they became
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much more preoccupied by profits. >> it's much cheaper and have somewhere in your studio pontificating than to have reporters out the field, report iran of any of this is true but what i've heard is that the father went down or open this basement room which the fbi had bypassed every single sentence on on cnn, perhaps on cnbc, on fox, and msnbc, begins with the words, i think but after for a while, people get confused by what is speculation. >> by what is innuendo, by what is fact and as far as the viewer is concerned, the very, very careful of unsubstantiated information presented with great coming to cnn this fall pros and cons less pro hosted by roy wood jr. row with amber ruffin would michaelian black? oh, great. so what are the cons we
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humor to it. >> and this is the beginning of the splintering of the television audience. and the splintering of the family audience really, i mean, because with families having three or four tvs in the house, you had a kid watching nickelodeon, you had the dad watching espn sports? yes. the mom watching lifetime. you know, they were in their own separate universes, watching television by the time of the 90s, mtv wasn't merely a music channel. >> they were having great success in terms of grading shows that incorporated music, but that also were shows in programs that stood on their own >> certainly beavis and butthead sort of established what mcv could be because the show is about people making fun of music videos. just like people in the audience were doing
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moving around. >> my manager would call me like, hey, you got this big bump as you are on beavis and butthead last night? >> do i sit there just like a donut watching these guys? now it's four and i find them endlessly entertaining because i know i knew no. and the world knows these guys are always will be it cannot be anything but good that's right >> tv has a detrimental, damaging developmental effect on the sexuality on the morality, on the spirituality, on the maybe even the physical development of our young people can go for her an audience of 5 million and have a successful show, you can say, i don't care if their parents don't like this
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two of the funniest people i've ever met and there are success story is proof that if you just stay true to yourself, you don't have to do anything else. people think, oh, you came into this show and now you're big sell abs. >> the truth is i mean, we were sellouts to begin with no stopping the corporate machine i mean, we were sleeping at a friend's house has had no money and then one fox executive has seeing a cartoon we had made in college. he said make me another christmas video that i can send out as a christmas card and he gave us like 700 bucks and we went and made this five minutes short icom seeking retribution he's going to kill you because you're jewish it went around the tv community like wildfire
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i mean, it was the funniest thing you'd ever seen. >> you're live somebody showed mean the short i thought it was hysterical. >> so i called and said get them in here right away topical? >> yes. county and so park really, really detests hypocrites and republican and then oh hi okay. >> mrs. cardman, all legalized ford. it's trimester abortions for you these people would ever get on network television or any kind of television >> a miracle south park is a miracle
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starts to kind of come into their own and then have i always had these, these brands a lot of people want freedom. they don't want to go back to the networks which are saying you can come to us, what you'll make more money, which you also have content restrictive. you can go to cable and have no restrictions, not make as much money, but have freedom of expression which almost everybody who works in these mediums wants some of the content truly was. you can't get this anywhere else. >> here honestly, makers the only limit on the kinds of fantasies is people's imagination hbo turned to people who has said, i can't do that on television. but you can do it on hbo why people don't trust black people that's not it will open a black president like a black brother will. >> the white house like the
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grants, will be good the late 80s hbo was just sort of gaining ground for series by the 90s, hbo had started two begin its explosion when we started doing dream on, one of the things that hbo said to us was it's got to be something that couldn't be on network tv as writers who created it. >> we're like, oh my god, we can really want baby to tell me what you want you want i've never done 91 black people had an explosive
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reverberation after kanye said it, this was a lot of people's faces because it felt like he said the quiet part out loud. >> that moment all laid the groundwork for black lives matter for better or worse? a lot of people came away from that bag you and it's my turn to talk, almost say tv on the edge, moments that shaped our culture. next sunday at nine on cnn this world right now, save $50 on the msa 60 cb battery chains real still find yours it's got it's just perfect for fall,
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of cathartic because in the world of valerio, sandra show if there was a network but your budget, is that what you want me to do? so it became this weird funhouse mirrors thing where you could use stuff from your misery, from your career as fodder. >> i don't take this as a threat, but i killed a man like you and korea hand-to-hand my boy doesn't want to do anymore commercials. >> larry sanders to me was aside from being a brilliant television show, didn't you say hey, now it was my everyday life i'm here for three good reasons. >> last show, degrading will be coming out him pham the larry sanders show was very unique in that it was very deadpan and really groundbreaking in its day. i think it made people really go. that's the level of work you may be able to do on a cable network
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in this fictional penitentiary wow, what a strange show that in sometimes the things you can't touch a more real than the things you can for and so jaw-droppingly violence it was immense personal. it's probably shouldn't be. but, you know, it kind of announces the idea that hbo is gonna get very serious about doing scripted dramas comes to its own in 1999 with the sopranos
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shows, it was a benchmark. >> it changed like a lot of things for everybody soprano no lead actor in a drama he killed a man we watched him college tour hernia yeah. there was just a melding of a guy and world what anna behavior that promoted all of the feelings that you would have for a guy that you love in a guy that you hate >> and it really showed us the future, whether we realize that was going to be the future of television or not. >> this has been of yours, camela much. we love them he's the best father to me just make
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sure nothing happens to him. >> that character in that show was a great inspiration to a great many shows that came after it, including one that i worked on you know what i tony? >> i want those kids to have a father. >> they've got one. this one me, tony soprano and all it comes with it. >> you because of the quality of those shows that happened in the 90s, actors, no longer felt that it was a comedown to come work in television audiences started to look towards television for what they hit only found before. in feature film. what did i ever do to you except delivered the south you shouldn't have made me back not work. >> dramas became very innovative. they were really making new mark once we started making the ions is shows that we were making in the 90s you couldn't shut the door on get
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me out and i just isn't mixing daggett of tv. some of my favorite shows of all time aired in that decade and everybody was watching them they were still that communal sense from the earlier decades of tv, but it was being applied to shows that we're reaching higher and farther and they were great less time worrying about what their kids watch on tv and more time worrying about what's going on in their kids lives. this world would be a much better place yes. >> i think depends only get so offended by television because they were lying. and as a babysitter and the soul educator of their kids go bag of provable role

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