underlying theme of his rome show and put it in deadwood. no law at all in deadwood. is that true? at the time of nero, there was a lot of order and no law. and deadwood was a similar environment. maybe you don t value keeping your [ bleep ] cuts inside your belly enough. those are the days behind us. no, those are the days to my [ bleep ] left. ian mcshane s character steals the show, lock, stock, and barrel, away from anyone else. you want to go into that saloon and engage him in conversation. then you say to yourself, if i say something wrong, will i get my guts cut out with a bowie knife? he s a fascinating character in that he scares you and attracts you at the same time. that s kind of a rare thing. can we see your fangs? i always said daddy hated vampires. but we don t. i think that true blood was
hardwood floors so we had to put them down. here comes 30 rock. it s probably the densest show ever jokewise. no, no high def. 30 rock was a critical success from minute one. it had a very passionate, desirable audience watching it from even an advertiser s standpoint. but it was not a highly rated show. television on. pornography. but critical success was a marker for we re doing something right there. all of my summer replacement shows were big hits. america s next top pirate. are you stronger than a dog. milf island. milf island? 25 super hot moms, 50 eighth grade boys, no rules. didn t one of those women turn out to be a prostitute? that doesn t mean she s not a wonderful, caring milf.
excuse me. this was one of my first maybe it was my first binge show, which was long enough ago that it was all on somebody had recorded it on vcr. have you been watching mrs. romano? yes, i m watching her all night. are you thinking what i m thinking? casket climber. i want to go with you! there s a whole level of something going on on television. it was grittier than most shows you had seen before, and yet something magical about it. i think what our strategy at hbo was in terms of audiences, not everybody has to watch a show. but if we have different shows for different people, there is something that makes you want to come back and sign up month
the winner of the first survivor competition is survivor sort of legitimized the genre. simon fuller came into my office. his vision was one long audition. like a virgin touched for the very first time i ve never heard anything like that in my life. she bangs she bangs thank you, thank you. [ unintelligible singing ] what was that? that is what you think we re looking for? the network was saying, we don t think we can put simon on the promos. no, no, no, no, no, no, no. he ll scare little girls and that s our audience. one of worst auditions i ever heard in my life. we re like, well, that s the whole show. without him, it s not going to work.
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.