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Supporting each other was also an important narrative change. >> okay, girls, see you tomorrow. >> okay. >> night-night. >> the show had a message of freedom and liberation especially for women that really resonated. i think "sex and the city" helped make hbo a place for people to think, i wonder what theyll be doing next. we call it the mother standard of care.

The networks, which are saying you can come to us where youll make more money but youll also have content restricted. you could 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 cant get this anywhere else. >> youre a fantasy maker, the only limit on the kinds of fantasies is peoples imagination. >> hbo turned to people who said, i cant do that on television, ...

>> it was jaw-droppingly violent. it was a mens prison. it probably should be. but you know, it kind of announces the idea that hbo is going to get serious about doing scripted dramas. >> its finished. its over. >> but hbo really in my mind comes to its own in 1999 with "the sopranos." ♪ ♪ woke up this morning ♪ got yourself a gun >> "sopranos" just is one of those shows that was a benchmark change. it changed a lot of things for everybody. >> throw out the handbook. tony soprano, the lead...

I went to smith. >> the show took an interesting turn by really focusing on the relationship between the women and telling the story of them as really soulmates together as well. >> you did the right thing buying that apartment. you love it, right? >> yeah. >> and you wont be alone forever. >> historically women are often set up in narratives in which only one can succeed. and so showing women not competing with each other and as supporting each other was also an important narrative change. >> o...

>> by the 90s hbo had started to begin its explosion. >> when we started doing "dream on" one of the things hbo said to us was, its got to be something that couldnt be on network tv. ♪ >> because hbo was driven by subscribers and not by commercials and selling advertising time, they had a different way of looking at success or failure. what they were looking for was critical acclaim. >> youve watched letterman, youve watched leno, but what about larry? larry sanders, that is. hes the tv alter ...

>> okay, girls, see you tomorrow. >> okay. >> night-night. >> the show had a message of freedom and liberation especially for women that really resonated. i think "sex and the city" helped make hbo a place for people to think, i wonder what theyll be doing next. hey, who are you? oh, hey jeff, im a car thief... what?! im here to steal your car because, well, thats my job. what? what?? what?! (laughing) what?? what?! what?! [crash] what?! haha, it happens. and if youve got cut-rate car insurance,...

Said, i cant do that on television, but you can do it on hbo. >> white people dont trust black people. thats why they wont vote for no black president. like a black brother will [ bleep ] up the white house. like the grass wont be cut. dishes piled up. cousins running through the white house. cookouts. basketball going in the back. >> in the late 80s hbo was just sort of gaining ground for series. >> by the 90s hbo had started to begin its explosion. >> when we started doing "dream on" one of th...

>> "oz" comes on in 97. and its set in this fictional penitentiary. wow. what a strange show that was. >> in "oz," sometimes the things you cant touch are more real than the things you can. for instance, fear, hatred, fear, loneliness are more real to me than a shank and a soul. >> it was jaw-droppingly violent. it was a mens prison. it probably should be. but, you know, it kind of announces the idea that hbo is going to get serious about doing scripted dramas. >> its finished. its over. >> but ...

On network television or any kind of television? >> howdy ho! >> its a miracle. "south park" is a miracle. >> the early 90s the hbo shows start to kind of come into their own. >> and then have i always had these breasts? >> a lot of people want freedom. they dont want to go back to the networks, which are saying you can come to us where youll make more money but youll also have content restricted. you could go to cable and have no restrictions. not make as much money but have freedom of expressi...

Basically, quality migrates to cable. >> "oz" comes on in 97. and its set in this fictional penitentiary. wow. what a strange show that was. >> in "oz," sometimes the things you cant touch are more real than the things you can. for instance, fear, hatred, loneliness are more real to me than a shank and a soul. >> it was jaw-droppingly violent. it was a mens prison. it probably should be. but you know, it kind of announces the idea that hbo is going to get very serious about doing scripted dramas...