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Its two people locked in combat that never actually boils over into combat, and i thought that was just very smart. i think fx did so much good work that it moved television forward. [daniel] a lot of these networks have been trying to expand their brands. and a lot of how you expand your brand is with a really, really good scripted title. sundance tv had rectify, a show that i will always tell people to watch. its a contemplative show thats a meditation on faith and spirituality, about a guy wh...

Some say its what they were born to do... its what they live to do... trinet serves small and medium sized businesses... so they can do more of what matters. benefits. payroll. compliance. trinet. people matter. [theme music] thank you so much for coming. what an amazing turnout. [daniel] parks and recreation. its a story of leslie knope,

Theres such a sense of fu to it. its really powerful. [daniel] amc was no longer american movie classics. what they stood for was quality programming. [vince] we went to amc because, frankly, amc was the only outfit that was asking us to do the show. cooking is art. and the shit i cook is the bomb, so dont be telling me. shit you cook is shit. breaking bad is the story of a chemistry teacher who finds out that hes dying from cancer. and what he decides to do as a means of providing for his famil...

Gm cant make these fast enough, huh? yeah, its a great car. [daniel] the americans is itself a great part of the fx brand as well. the americans concerned two kgb agents--theyre spies-- stop. [renee] --pretending to be a married suburban couple. youre my wife. is that right? [james] elizabeth, very interestingly, is the sort of hardcore ideologue believer, a role, honestly, that past tv shows probably wouldve tended to give to the man. i would go to jail. i would die. i would lose everything bef...

By normal lear himself, who was behind the original-- people started to step back and went, why do we need that? and then you watched the show about this cuban american family, suddenly you saw exactly why you wanted it. nothing like thats gonna happen to abuelita. shes not gonna get deported. she could be. you know theyre deporting cubans now too? what? that doesnt make sense. they should be importing us. [audience laughter] [daniel] this is a show that is all about validating the immigrant exp...

Get into the original programming business. and theyre willing to take chances on shows like mad men. and then the walking dead was an extended creature feature. [walker growling] [daniel] the walking dead on amc was a gigantic zombie show at a moment that people were loving zombie things. [shannon] walking dead really captured everyones attention. it just has this explosive moment across social media. people cant stop talking about it. and because of that, amc kept renewing it season after seas...

They start doing these action shows. [daniel] these are great, elevated, b-movie tv shows. and then sometimes cinemax struck gold, like the knick. you turn a block of programming over to steven soderbergh, and in this case, it was brilliant television. gentlemen, atomizers on. everyone scrubbed, washed, cleansed, deloused, purified by god. [jacqueline] the knick is set in a hospital in the early 20th century. clive owen plays their premier physician. and hes well respected, but hes also complete...

Im not gonna have you running around, torturing my son. what was that? what are you wearing? [renee] and i love the fact that the robinsons of black-ish exist in real life, in that they werent siloed off from what the rest of black america was dealing with. they have to deal with police violence, and what that means, and what they tell their children about dealing with police, and how they have very opposing views. the police are damn thugs. not all police. yeah, only 92 percent. the other 8 per...

Has a friendly neighborhood a michael jackson impersonator. but the facts came out so quickly when it comes to twitter and reddit and social media they were not able to set the narrative which is a good thing. im a little concerned about the prospects in the new york city justice system, we have soros run d.a. and a lot of people very far left in the jury pool im very interested to see how that pans out but im glad his side of the story is getting out and im glad the narrative is not being pushe...

Because we were supposed to find their bumbling loveable as the bumbling of actual cops became more and more disturbing and terrifying. i promise you, we are gonna get you justice. yeah...well see. i think that at a certain point, mike schur did realize that grounding these optimistic stories in our actual world was becoming more and more complicated. oh, look at this! we added a tenth dimension. [zap] [gasping, exclaiming] [daniel] and suddenly the good place is a show where its connection to t...