oh, do you know how many problems we have solved over a cheesecake at this kitchen table? no, dorothy, exactly how many? 147, rose! oh. hi bryant. it s cutthroat prime time time this fall as some 23 new shows compete in one of the hottest ratings races in years. here s one just about everybody predicts will be a big hit. designing women on cbs. four femmes forming an interior decorating business and giving each other the business. suzanne, if sex were fast food, there d be an arch over your bed. corday: linda bloodworth-thomason created one of the funniest, most unusual shows in designing women. they were a different group of women than you really saw on television. they were feisty, they were sexy, and linda s voice came through shining. a man can get away with anything. i mean, look at reagan s neck. it sags down to here.
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a kind of an electronic confessional where guests are willing to expose painful and sometimes embarrassing aspects of their lives quite readily to millions of viewers. bianculli: at the beginning of the decade, we get the dominance of phil donahue. and that s sort of a maturation of women s issues. and he seemed to talk to them, in the audience, he seemed to talk to them through the tv screen. i m glad you called. kiss the kids. [ laughter ] we ll be back in just a moment. if you look at the body of work we ve had, you know, you re gonna see the 80s there. i m not here to say you re wrong, but let s understand this. when you bring a moral judgment without knowing them, against them for the way that they look they feel that confirms the reason for their rebellion, if that s what you want to call it. mitchell: he really believed that daytime television needed to talk about the ideas we were thinking about, the issues we were concerned about.
i think that he is starting to transcend just his sport. he s becoming something of a public figure. futterman: michael jordan becomes the model that every other athlete wants to shoot for. they want to be a brand. and that s what television does for these athletes. it turns them into worldwide, iconic brands. announcer: the inbound pass comes in to jordan. here s michael at the foul line. a shot on ehlo. -good! -yeah! the bulls win! athletes in the 80s became part of an ongoing group of people that we cared about. we just had an enormous, pent-up demand for sports and the 80s began to provide. thank goodness. cable television is continuing to grow. it s estimated that it will go into one million more u.s. households this year. with cable television suddenly offering an array of different channel choices, the audience bifurcated. that s an earthquake. i want my mtv! i want my mtv!■■■■i want my mtv! i want my mtv. i want my mtv. goodman: a new concept is born the best of t
it s a great story. announcer #1: off the back. lakers had several chances and here s larry bird dunking down the court. announcer #2: magic johnson leads the attack. look at that pass. oh, oh! what a show! what a great play! oh! what a show! when those championship games are in prime time and people are paying attention to that, television feeds into those rivalries and makes them bigger than they ve ever been before. [ cheers and applause ] connelly: every mike tyson fight was an event because every fight was like an ax murder. when he fought michael spinks, the electricity, you could just feel it watching it on tv. announcer: here comes mike, spinks in! he leads with a right hand! down he goes! tyson was made for tv because there was drama. announcer: it s all over! mike tyson has won it! firestone: not a lot of junior high school kids can dunk, especially at five feet. but everybody tries now. everybody tries. [ laughs ] i bet now.
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