s new series and stars alan alda and edie falco. here is what's different about it.y available for a price, a small price, on his web site. >> it just grabbed me. i just believed in it. as soon as i started writing it. i've had a lot of ideas for different kind of shows, but there's this test, does it write? can you actually get out the scripts? i started writing it this summer, and it just kept coming episode after episode, and i realized i'm writing something that is worth shooting so i started to get to work producing it. >> rose: what about the actors? >> steve buscemi called me to do a benefit for a firefighter thing -- >> and you said, "i'll do your benefit, but by the way?" >> i happened to be writing it. i wasn't sure where it was going yet. i had him on the show, we were chatting we're friend. i said, "do you want to do a show?" he said, yeah, sure. and i said we're brothers. and i saw an article about edie falco saying that she's done with nurse jackie. >> rose: you said boom. >> she's one of my favorites. i wrote her into it. and i was at the emmies and sh

also responsible for creating two of the greatest female characters of all time, nancy marshan and edi falco in "the sopranos." brilliant actresses. >> you say they don't have a problem and hbo is -- >> no. >> they can do whatever they want. >> there are a lot of topless women on there. >> so what? >> can't there just be things people don't like. >> guys take their shirts off too. >> which i enjoy. >> do we have to like everything ? there are things i don't like out there. >> that's not the goal? we all like the same things? >> just don't watch it. there are other things you can watch. somebody wrote it this wi and this is what it is. >> the middle ages were pre-gloria steinum. if you want that mushy stuff go watch "love story" with alley mcgraw. >> none of you are with me on this? >> no. >> no. >> are you out vote. >> i don't want to see people having s is ex on tv. i don't like it. >> more sex. more sex on tv. somebody should be having sex right here, right now. >> i just think it is like every time you get a scene and i thought it was -- you know m i liked hitchcock. >> i prefer a little

. -- edie falco and steve and alan jessica lange. they are all better than me.o, for sure, i want to give them the platform and be a sounding board. charlie rose: you have been doing some acting. louis: i have a lot of terrible moments on screen, that i cannot take back, including the show. i am stiff. with the end of horace and pete, the feelings were real and i felt like pete was my brother. when hard things happened to pete, i got upset. charlie rose: it is an amazing thing. you created the characters. louis: and then i got involved like i was in the family. these show -- -- when we shot the last episode, it took me a while to recover from that. i was very upset. i did not have conjure anything from my asked or how to get there. i was just very upset for real. we traded e-mails, all of us, saying that we were within -- we are in withdrawal and it was hard to walk away from the show and it was hard how it ended. charlie rose: does it have to end? .ouis: not necessarily the story we told is over. play then it10-act is like a series. the thing with a series, you

steve buscemi and edie falco l and then even with the "cheers." you're taking your probatol, right? ran out? >> changed my insurance again -- >> reporter: rooted in serious dialogue and staged on a simple set, "horace and pete" is unlike anything on tv. >> so what's going >> a long story. >> reportet beltway's >> reporter: similar to his trademark comedy only in the beltway approaches controversial subjects. like this exchange with a female character who may or may not be transgender. >> if you used to be a guy, i think -- i mean, would have an obligation to tell someone you're going to be with. >> why? >> aren't we all saying that when someone becomes trans that's caitlyn jenner is a woman now. dr e-- bruce enin a dress or got tc tlyn jenner a he sleeps with a she have to tell him i used to be bruce jenner? i think that's an something unresolved -- for the average person who doesn't think about this kind of stuff all the time, which is what horace it. >> reporter: tell me who horace is. >> he's a -- you know, nothing. he's just a nothing guy. he's -- there's part of me in horace. >

steve buscemi and edie falco among the co-stars. it's set among a family-owned bar in brooklyn.y believe it may change tv as we know it. we spoke with the comedian about his new venture and pushing the limit. this is not "cheers." >> no, no, not at all. not even close. it looks like it, if you have the sound off for two minutes and then even with the sound off, you're like, geez, that's not "cheers." you're taking your probatol, right? >> i ran out. >> what do you mean you ran out? >> changed my insurance again -- >> reporter: rooted in serious dialogue and staged on a simple set, "horace and pete" is unlike anything on tv. >> so what's going on? >> a long story. >> reporter: it is more "death of a salesman" than "modern family." >> is this sink practical -- >> reporter: louis wrote and directed all of it, challenging not only the format of television -- >> here's what i want you to do -- >> reporter: but the beltway's distributed. >> i can't have a 10-year-old friend? >> reporter: each sold to his fans for $3 apiece. >> racist is what you do, not what you say. this place ain't