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Successful sitcoms but they werent the only network that found their way to having some success. tgif was on abc on friday, and it was their block of family-oriented comedies. >> i cant take it. i need the cake. >> it was not sophisticated television. but these were shows that people adored. [ laughing and snorting ] >> cbs. >> cbs was in a really bad spot. they had just fallen apart over the early part of the 90s and had gone through a couple different network executives. >> but then suddenly t...

>> ive got good news. the gum you like is going to come back in style. >> what on earth is essentially a art film doing in prime time television? >> american network television quitting smoking is freaking hard.st, has long been considered the home of the blands, the cautious and the predictable. like quitting every monday hard. quitting feels so big. so, try making it smaller. so it was with some trepidation and youll be surprised at how easily starting small... ...can lead to something big. th...

Like quitting every monday hard. quitting feels so big. so, try making it smaller. and youll be surprised at how easily starting small... ...can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette >> so you want to go look at apartments tomorrow? >> great idea! >> ellen degeneres, the comedian, was about to come out. as a lesbian. and she does it on "time" magazine. yep, im gay. but they decide that the character ellen plays on tv will also come out. >> it is just reprehensible that abc, now ow...

>> things change, dawson. evolved. >> it became a little more outside the box in terms of what people may want to watch. >> you are out of order. this whole trial is. >> after ten years of the 90s, we have a whole new television world that can take us any place we want it and even place that a new era of technology is he did not imagine. >> was that the oven timer? >> thats right, my friend. forcing networks to re-examine it is time for "bay watch!" the way they do business. >> new owners spen...

W the gum you like is going to come back in style. >> what on earth is essentially a art film doing in prime time television? >> american network television has long been considered the home of the blands, the cautious and the predictable. so it was with some trepidation that it the abc network launched a new series that was none of those things. "twin peaks" is already described by one critic as the series that will change tv. its directed by david lynch. >> david lynch was a filmmaker known fo...

♪ the following movie is rated "r." >> in 1990, 91, there was not a whole lot of original programing for cable, but they were airing movies. so we needed to compete and i felt that if we didnt, we were going to kind of get swept out. so i came up with a notion of doing a cop show that was r-rated. when abcs broadcast standards read our script, they went berserk. >> i was sitting with a pad and a pencil drawing pictures of breasts to try to show them what we would show and what we wouldnt sho...

You have to turn it into a business. >> wow. >> an abc network anchor admitted they stopped a bombshell story about jeffrey epstein.

Different ways. we were afraid we would not be able to interview kate and will so that squashed the story. she told me everything. she had pictures. she was in hiding for 12 years. we convinced her to talk to us. it was unbelievable what we had -- clinton. we had everything. >> she claims she was caught in a moment of frustration and the interview was not ready for air. abc is saying at the time not all of our reporting met our standards to air but we have never stop investigating the story. dan...

(vo) the three-row subaru ascent. love. its what makes a subaru, a subaru. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> an abc news anchor caught on a hot mic said the network spiked an explosive story about jeffrey epstein 3 years ago. they released the video. fox news hasnt been able to independently verify it. here it is. >> i had a story for 3 years. i had this interview with virginia roberts. they would not put it on the air. jeffrey epstein, no one knows who that is. thats a stupid story. then the palace found...

Coverage of the little baby! thats why they didnt cover it. that was a great point, judge. you should tell me it was a great point. >> a great point. >> [laughing]. >> after the fact she said then he absolutely was killed jeffrey epstein. >> i heard that last week. >> they tried to make her put out a weak and disgraceful statement. she wants to be a company woman. i understand that. if you look from the outside perspective, if this was fox news on a hot mic, killing a story about jeffrey epstein...