to learn more about the community wildfire safety program and how you can help keep your home and community safe, visit pge.com/wildfiresafety in just four weeks, you will have the chance to render your verdict on the democrats outrageous conduct, on november 6. and you can do early voting. in iowa go, just vote, get it over with. president trump tonight urging iowans to get out the vote before expressing his disappointment over the number of nebraskans at the event. there are two distinct plot lines we ll be watching on election night in this very room. the house and the senate. where the senate is concerned the dream of democratic control may indeed be too lofty to be attainable.
commentary. there have been times in television history where the prevailing political themes did drive certain plot lines, did you television was afraid of them. it was too controversial. from television city in hollywood the smothers brothers comedy hour. my old man is a negro. you are a fascist. a variety show that ran in the late 60s. gigantic. very big hit. they really went after the vietnam war and after lbj. all you guys in vietnam, come on home. lbj called the head of cbs and said you have to get these guys to stop. the network wound up cancelling the show. the actor and director rob reiner began his career writing for the show. there was no issue we didn t take on.
time tv has murphy brown. later, more shows added political plot lines. attacking my status as a single mother. murphy brown in the bush administration got in a squabble with dan quayle and the simpsons with george h.w. bush. there, neighbors. i m george bush. former president, george bush. oh! you can t stay ahead of everything happening so fast. next, tv dram as chasing the news in trump s america. not my president!
25th amendment to oust a president who is not in a coma or in any way disabled. in the world of trump, plot lines that were once thought to be too outlandish are no longer. i would be very happy if my show became irrelevant as quickly as possible. bruce miller is the creator of the emmy winning series, the hand maid s tale. conceived before the election, the chilling show went on to capture the lightning of the current political environment. our writers are very news aware. trump pushing on the hot button issues and they bottom conversations in the writer s room. hard to fathom is a distopian show set in a made up place where women s rights have been stripped under a twisted totalitarian regime. we re don t do anything on
people feel insulted. people in the middle of the country believe that hollywood only portrays things in a certain way as though they are the butt of the joke, that their views aren t respected. brian, is the trump presidency now the driving force behind a lot of scripted television? that s what s remarkable is it really is. there s so many show runners, writers and producers who either take jabs at trump in their scripts or write plot lines who are influenced in the trump presidency. the hands maid tale on hulu had a dialogue that sounded a little too much that sounded like make america great again. so they took it out. but other shows lean-in and attack him savagely. the producers of will and grace said to us all the easy jokes about trump have now been made. we have to be clever, we can t be cheap when it comes to