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Black woman who is the show runner means "living single" is this like behind-the-scenes look of what black women are like when theyre not around white people. >> i dont know. the club scene is tired. its nothing but a bunch of brothers there with beepers and gold teeth talking about id like to put you on a plate and sop you up with a biscuit. >> kudos to yvette lee bowser to create something so amazing and so real. >> a year later "friends" was on the air. >> yes, we were for all intents and pur...

Beating among total viewers. >> by march 2016, stephen colbert told me he was so exhausted and his life is so miserable. >> we are working longer hours ever. and the only break we get was a little extra sleep on the weekend. i just think he was not comfortable. cbs said we need the get him a show runner so steven can concentrate on the comedy. >> and so cbs executives set up drinks for colbert. i knew chris from morning news. the deal they make was chris will not tell stephen how to do comedy. >...

American television changed the truly changed the way people watched and consumed late night for all time. >> there was a feeling at cbs that stephen colbert was dragging down james corden, that james corden could be even bigger if he was on before stephen colbert. and they were talking about flipping those shows. >> fallon was killing him in the young adulteratings, and even beating him among total viewers. >> by march 2016, stephen colbert had told me he was just so exhausted. his life was jus...

Cy Chermak, CHiPs and Ironside Producer, Dies at 91 Antonio Ferme, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail TV producer and writer Cy Chermak, who produced notable series including “CHiPs,” “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” and “Ironside,” died Friday of natural causes in Oahu, Hawaii. He was 91. Chermak was born in 1929 in Bayonne, New Jersey as Seymour Albert Chermak. He began his career in Hollywood at the age of 17, going on to become a successful television producer on series like “Conwa...

And get a free shredder with annual membership. call now to start your membership or visit lifelock.com/tv heather: jussie smollett could be headed back to the silver screen. >> empire gone, no more. praise the lord. heather: show runner for empire says he is considering allowing the disgraced actor to return for the final season for telling tv line there are no official plans to bring them back at this time but he is being discussed.

>> laura: an iconic television show -- an iconic television show, and the show runner, shonda rhymes, one of the most brilliant television producers. she went to my alma mater. shes a big democrat. and you were kind of a -- kind of a democrat then as well, right? so you -- did you have a political mind meld when you worked on that show? or was politics never even brought up? >> ill say this, ive been political since -- the day i was born. any african-american man born black in america is politic...

>> "greys anatomy" revealed what a good story teller shonda rhimes is. >> i love you. in a really, really big, pretend to like your taste in music, let you eat the last piece of cheesecake, hold a radio over my head outside your window, unfortunate way that makes me hate you/love you. so pick me. >> people like shonda rips are just the life beloved broadcast networks and in shondas case, its fantastic because finally a woman, finally a person of color is doing this. >> anything that opens door f...

Roger ailes changed cable news and america forever. it has been three years since he was forced out of fox news due to the sexual harassment scandal and now theres a new drama that takes you back to his tenure at fox news. jason blum and eric metcalf is the show runner for "the loudest voice." alex, the idea for this series there was so much attention when ailes was forced out of the job and then he passed away in 2017. have you had enough time to step back and fictionalize this story? >> oh, ab...

In shondas case its fantastic because finally a woman, finally a person of color is doing this. >> anything that opens doors for more women and more african americans and more diverse casting and more diverse crew is a good thing. >> shonda stood up and went, yes, i am going to be a show runner, and im going to be a juggernaut. >> 10 bucks says he messes up. >> 10 bucks says he cries. >> total meltdown. >> 50 says he pulls the whole thing off. >> thats one of us down there. the first one of us. ...

Abc did decide she was going to cancel roseanne, i think it was a good business move ultimately. >> is this an example of trump tv backfiring? >> i would say, since he said, its about us, you can now say, okay. it was about you. one of the things that is associated with trump is, lets get rid of political correctness. so, he opened that door. he opened the door. >> thank you and god bless america. thank you. up next, tvs original troublemaker. >> the only people nowadays that can afford live-i...