Transcripts For CNN The 2000s 20240706

Work when it was bending a genre. Take something thats familiar and give it some chili pepper. Advertising is based on one thing, happiness. Is there any taboo that you wouldnt break . Not if there was a funny idea. What is wrong with you . Theres so much different storytelling and so many different stories being told about so many different people. I dont think dramatic Series Television has ever been stronger. Theres no longer this theory of what Popular Entertainment must be. Incoming who are the heroes . The people who watch this show. This is the week when the Major Broadcast Networks unveil their fall lineup of shows. And every executive in hollywood knows how well the sopranos is doing on cable, which is a network problem. I think hbo altered everything for this reason alone, is there were no commercials. We are dependent on sponsors. Theres so much we can do in terms of language, in terms of violence, in terms of sex. To a large degree, a lot of executives were just sanding off the edges of what was interesting. I think hbo is looking at the world and going, okay, how can we matter . For quite a long time, movies and boxing were the bread and butter of hbo. People watch a show because youre partly a [ bleep ]. I think what we learned through shows like the Larry Sanders show or oz is that we could do serious television. Theres something in the air. And it aint love. Oz was cutting edge in what it was willing to share with the audience. Hit me. Hit me. Hit me in the face, brother. Complicated characters, complicated issues. And the way it was presented was so, uh, unique. Sentence, nine years. Up for parole in six. What they were doing at hbo was exactly what the network wasnt doing. They were breaking barriers. You get to the sopranos and All Of A Sudden, the villain is the hero. Have some eggplant. I told you. Im not hungry. Now you wont even accept food from your own mother. The sopranos was david chases invention about this mob family, something that people hadnt seen before. The idea that a mobster is seeing a therapist. What ever happened to gary cooper . The strong, silent type. That was an american. He wasnt in touch with his feelings. He just did what he had to do. See, what they didnt know is once they got gary cooper in touch with his feelings, they wouldnt be able to shut him up. And then its dysfunction this, dysfunction that. You have strong feelings about this. Every decade, you get somebody like peter falk as columbo or Carroll Oconner as archie bunker. Somebody you just cant imagine anyone else afterwards. James gandolfini is that as tony soprano. I think its supposed to be a mafia story, but i mean, its like i say its also about everyday life. Did you know that an italian invented the telephone . Alexander graham bell was italian . You see . You see what im talking antonio finucci invented the telephone and he got robbed. Everybody knows that. Who invented the mafia . What . The sopranos took the mystery out of being a mobster. Im a fool to do your dirty work oh yeah it was somehow more mundane than we guessed it would be, and yet every bit as riveting as the godfather. You were like a brother to me. The debate raged at hbo about whether you could have a guy like this as your lead. And david chase was adamant that you have to, this is who he is, and he was right. Can you assure me that tony soprano isnt going to become a sensitive, nurturing, mellowing man . Yes. Oh, good. Oh, my god. Its all right. Ill be home in a couple of hours. Dont worry. Im graduating tomorrow. Carmela was a wife and a mother. I think first and foremost, i think as long as she kept going to church, she felt, all right, im taking care of my soul. Where is the rest of the money . Its everywhere. She goes home to her husband whos got blood on him. There was no way to reconcile the two things. Towards the end, when their marriage is falling apart i used to [ bleep ] your husband. You have made a fool of me for years with these whores. Her performance in that fight is stunningly good. Because shes jealous [ bleep ]. Let go of me it mattered to people what this couple was going through. And i remember feeling a real sense of responsibility about that and giving the weight to the scene that it deserves. What . You know what i dont understand, tony . What does she have that i dont have . Suddenly here is this tv show that everyone is talking about, but you have to pay to watch it. You know, thats how good the sopranos was. People were paying just to see that show. The sopranos came along and completely reestablished what the bar was. I honestly couldnt quite believe it, that television was communicating something that you might only see in the darkest moments and accurate moments in cinema. You look at the year that American Beauty won the oscar, which is also the year that the sopranos debuted. Almost immediately after that, the two mediums diverged. I know what i must do. Im afraid to do it. Movies became much more focused on big tentpole things that could bring in as much of an audience as you possibly can. Meanwhile, tv, which had always been a big tent medium, started going smaller and more interior and saying, all right, we want to tell stories for grownups that maybe dont get the biggest audience but get a really passionate one. Ill be home for christmas i had an idea of doing a show about death. Are you smoking . No. Yes, you are. I heard you. Im not. No, im not. Look, forget youll give yourself cancer and die a slow and horrible death. You should not be stinking up that new hearse. I met with carolyn and she said, id like to do a show about a family that runs a funeral home. And something in my head just went, click. I thought, what a brilliant idea. Im quitting right now. I promise. Okay . Ill see you tonight. Ill be home for Christmas Alan ball comes up with a show with a perfect structure. Each episode starts with the death of a character, and then that characters death is dealt with in a local family funeral home mortuary. Excuse me. This was one of my first maybe it was my first binge show, which was long enough ago that it was all on somebody had recorded it on vcr. Have you been watching mrs. Romano . Yeah. Im watching her all night. Are you thinking what im thinking . Casket climber. I want to go with you whoa, whoa theres a whole level of something going on On Television. It was grittier than most shows youd ever seen before. And yet something magical about it. I think what our strategy at hbo was in terms of audiences, not everybody has to watch a show. But if we have different shows for different people, there is something that makes you want to come back and sign up month after month. Maybe you dont watch Sex And The City but you watch entourage. Entourage was originally based on Mark Wahlbergs life. And the appeal of the show is not so much about show business. It was these four guys who were lifelong friends who could [ bleep ] with each other and say horrible things to each other but be tight and be good friends. They want to throw 4 million at you. Youre kidding. Are you smiling . Yeah, yeah, im smiling. Can you hear me smiling . You got my balls tingling, man. They drive that way in tiananmen square, bitch . Ari gold became the breakout character, willing to be ruthless, yet also a family man with a Line In The Sand. And you dont really know where that Line In The Sand is, which makes him a morally much more interesting character. I read an article in the times. The new york times, not like the [ bleep ] they got out here. You read the times, huh . No. You read The New Republic . Ive heard of it. Its interesting. 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Before we make any decisions, well see what weve got. There might be a blow torch in there. We need a bathroom. Are you guys all done talking . Richard hatch was sitting in a tree, lecturing about what they should do as their group. Nobody is working toward a particular goal. Not the silly little stuff about whos going to sleep there, what are we going to do . But, why are we here . Underneath him was a woman sue hawk who was a truck driver. Im a redneck, i dont know corporate world at all. Corporate world aint gonna work out here in the bush. That was the show. He walks around naked quite a bit. I think it probably bugs some of the guys. Whatever it takes to win here is the point. Its a game. Call it machiavellian, sure. We had no idea that Richard Hatch would be the best thing to ever happen to survivor. All around the country people were on the edge of their seats, waiting for the final vote to be announced. The winner of the first survivor competition is survivor sort of legitimized the genre. Simon fuller came into my office. And his vision was, one long audition. Like a virgin touched for the very first time ive never, ever heard anything like that in my life. She bangs she bangs thank you, thank you. [ unintelligible singing ] what was that . That is what you think were looking for . The network was saying, we dont think we can put simon on the promos. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Hell scare little girls and we think thats our audience. One of worst auditions ive ever heard in my life. Im like, well, thats the whole show so, you know, without him its not going to work. It was a big fight internally. Of course we got him on, and of course thats what sparked the show. Well, here they are. The judges have made their choices. Now, america, its all up to you. American idol reunited the family audience in front of the tv. Respect find out what it means to me 9yearolds to 90yearolds could root for somebody on american idol. Its not like it hadnt been done before. But the way the producers of these shows could manipulate drama, the way they could find stories . That was the core of making those shows successful. This is the weakest romance ive ever seen. This romance is pathetic. Was there a romance . Well, i think we just decided we were meant to be very Close Friends. Very Close Friends. Thats right. Good, ive had some very Close Friends too. Yeah, me too. Me too. Its cost me a lot of money, ill tell you that. The apprentice has its lasting effect even today. Donald trump becomes a star. Youre fired. All of it kind of reality show fake. People who worked on it have come forward and said, you know, we kind of made the whole thing up. And yet it sells. Then theres just this explosion. You interested in tattoos . Weight loss . Plastic surgery . Breast augmentation, tummy tuck, facial surgery. Hoarders . Substance abuse . Flipping your house . Thats a big one. Theres literally a reality show for everyone now. The networks would be out of business without reality tv. If you had to fill 40 hours of television with scripted shows, it would cost you an arm and a leg. You would be out of business because those scripted shows most likely will do no better and probably worse than the reality show did. We also started seeing things aimed at gay viewers and women. And so, you know, you have queer eye for the straight guy. Bad taste kills. And project runway. This is a search for the next big fashion designer. Project runway was not an instantaneous hit. We sort of had this crisis, were like, is anyone going to want to sit around watching people sew . I am feeling the race against time now, yes. Bravo played three or four episodes over the christmas holidays. And All Of A Sudden it just caught on like wildfire. Make it work. People have come into runway and top chef, and they know that this can change their lives. One of you is about to win the title of top chef. Rock and roll then you have the osbournes. It was fun. Because, you know, the whole idea of, you know, the guy who bit the heads off of bats being domestic, and his wife and his teenage kids please do not get drunk or get stoned tonight. That sort of sparks this movement of, we can just put celebrities on tv and just let them do what they want to do. Ive always heard that people hang out at walmart. Why . I dont know. What is walmart . Do they, like, sell wall stuff . No. What is it . Its like, uh of course that reaches its peak, or nadir, depending on your opinion, with the kardashians. I hate you all. Welcome to my family. Theres something about watching someone whos maybe slightly like yourself but more obnoxious youre so evil. Theres a lot of baggage that comes with us. But its like Louis Vuitton baggage. You always want it. Or theyre, you know, more of a disaster. Prostitution whore, you are [ bleep ] engaged 19 times . You [ bleep ] stupid bitch [ bleep ] you [ bleep ] bitch whore theres something about watching that and going, yeah, god, at least im not that. I look over and i see like hair being pulled, and all the [ bleep ], im like, oh, my god, how do i get in . I used to get the critics asking me, well, why are people watching that reality show . Why are they watching the show . Because theyre entertained. Youre never going to meet someone thats going to say to you, you know, i was watching the bachelor last night, i loved it, but i wish i was watching a great drama. Karen. I thought you would never ask. You dont need to call it a guilty pleasure. Just call it a pleasure. Its something you love watching. It could be a reality show, could be a drama, sitcom, could be a documentary. Whatever it is, you know, i think great tv comes in many forms. Ubs. Theres the philly, the monster, the boss. 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Want to know what the best thing about childhood is . At some point, it stops. In the year 2000, we get malcolm in the middle. And this is a pivotal show for a lot of reasons. Not least of which because it gives us Bryan Cranston but because this is a singlecamera comedy. Around here, being smart is exactly like being radioactive. Singlecamera comedies were funny. And the fact that you could shoot them like movies and they could be terrific every week. Yep, class president felt really good. But later that night, i had a dream. Critics loved that because it was something new. It was something that they werent expecting. I used to see the traffic. The only thing moving is the carpool lane. Hey, danny, you want a date with mama . Get in the car. Curb came because larry wanted to do a special. It was his you know, just oh, film my life. But he would only make it with the stipulation that if he didnt like it, he could buy it back. Lucky for us, he liked it. Are you trying to act like you aint with me . No, im not trying to act like youre not with me. What are you saying . I will pull a [ bleep ] out in this thing, i will pull a [ bleep ] out dont you dare do that. The actors wouldnt get an outline for the show. They wouldnt even read what the scene was about. Judy judy oh, my god by the way, that shelf coming down was not planned. That shelf really did come down, and larry and jeff just acted their way through it. What do i do . Stick it in your jacket. Jeffrey its too big. Do something, shes coming up i think curb in many ways is the ultimate descendant of seinfeld, its in a much more real, truthful place where morality is a gray area. Wheres the [ bleep ] head . And everybodys redefining it all the time. The kid is home, hysterical, because her doll judy has been decapitated, because you two sickos took the head for god knows what reason, some voodoo [ bleep ] youre doing. Larry and i would play a game of worst case scenario. I was talking with a friend of mine. And hes a survivor. And he would love to meet you. Would it be possible, i mean, for me to bring him to dinner . Of course. You would take the basic premise from something that actually happened and then just exploit it. Wheres the survivor . What hes the survivor. From the from the Television Show. The guy from the survivor tv show and the holocaust survivor get into an argument about who had it worse. Im saying we spent 42 days trying to survive. We had very little rations. No snacks. Snacks . What are you talking, snacks . We didnt eat sometimes for a week, for a month. We ate nothing. I couldnt work out when i was over there, certainly didnt have a gym. A what . What are you i wore my sneakers out and the next thing you know, im wearing a pair of flipflops. Flipflops we slept on the ground. That was larry david at his best, because he managed to take a subject no one would find funny and make the hilarious and palatable. Im a survivor im a survivor im a survivor im a survivor im a survivor is there any taboo that you wouldnt break . No, not if it was a funny idea. Its all about funny. Yeah. So this is the magic trick, huh . Illusion, michael. A trick is something a whore does for money. Arrested development was absolutely firing on all cylinders, from the First Episode to the last. Dont you judge me. Youre the selfish one. Youre the one who charged his own brother for a frozen banana. I mean, its one banana, michael, what could it cost . 10 . Youve never actually set foot in a supermarket, have you . If you got it, its the funniest thing you ever saw. It assumed its audience was as smart as its writers. What do you got there . Dont be afraid to make a im not going to beat myself up over that. It was so clever and more meta than just about any show thats ever been On Television. Your Average American Male is in a state of perpetual adolescence, arrested development. Hey, thats the name of the show it was really smart that you could break all these rules. And also have a lot of characters on a comedy who were extremely unlikable. There are a lot more important things than jokes in a comedy. Jokes arent the most important thing in a comedy. Whats the most important thing . Character. Take control of the body busy . Yes, keeping up morale. Can we have a chat . Yeah. Ooh ive watched the british show the office. Its one of the greatest cringe shows of all time. No, i dont have a great many ethnic employees, thats true. But its not company policy. I havent got a sign on the door that says white people only, you know. I dont care if youre black, brown, yellow. Orientals make very good workers. Whazzup dont do that when the decision was made to make an american version Wazzup Wazzup wazzup there was a lot of head shaking. Like, oh, god, american tv, theyre going to ruin it. Are they breathing . No, rose, they are not breathing. And they have no arms or legs. Thats not part of it. Where are they . It used the same Mockumentary Format that the british show had. Dwight dwight what are you doing we search for the organs. Where is the heart . The precious heart. That show works. Everybody you go to in that cast is hilarious. Oh, my god dwight the Mockumentary Format was different, and All Of A Sudden it became something that you just realized the audience was very comfortable and very conversant. Hey, park lady, you suck. Hear that . He called me park lady. The office, parks and rec, modern family, the conceit is theyre making a documentary. Im okay. Im good. Im good. The idea of these shows is you know, they sit down on a couch or they catch them in a separate part of the office, and everybody does a confessional like reality television. Ive gained a few extra pounds while we were expecting the baby, which has been very difficult. But apparently your body does a nesting, very maternal, primal thing where it retains nutrients, some sort of molecular physiology thing. But thats science. You cant fight it. We didnt need to explain that theres a documentary. Yeah, its a documentary, we dont need to know whos who hes talking to, i got it, and its funny. This years Emmy Nominations have been announced. The Comedy Series 30 rock was the top nominee. 30 rock. 30 rock is having the last laugh again. Last years best Comedy Winner pulled in 17 nominations, the most in that category. Why are you wearing a tux . Its after 6 00. What am i, a farmer . Tina fey i always felt was the best joke writer in america. Would you describe yourself as Cat Competent . Oh, yes. I love cats. I used to have two cats. But then i moved to this place with Hardwood Floors so we had to put them down. So here comes 30 rock. Its probably the densest show ever jokewise. No, no high def. 30 rock was a critical success from minute one. 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It was a bunch of ordinary guys who by way of training and volunteerism and sacrifice both saved the world and were forever changed by what they did. A lot of those veterans were still alive. So we got to meet them, we got to talk to them. Ive seen my friends, my men being killed. And it doesnt take too many days of that and you change dramatically. The show premiered september 9th, 2001. Two days later, everything changes. People were concerned, should we stop airing it because its a war story, and now the country is at war again . It turned out to be something that was necessary, because now almost every american, i think, felt as though they had enlisted in something that they had not enlisted in before. After 9 11, we were all part of something. We deserve long and happy lives and peace. Historical dramas of the founding of the nation have been overly rosy. When i go to the cupboard and i find no coffee, no sugar, no pins, no meat, am i not living politics . One of the things amazing to me about john adams was it was done as realism. Would you approve a brutal and illegal act to enforce a political principle, sir just the grittiness of founding a nation. And liberty will ring in america and trying to figure out what a president is. God bless george washington, president of the United States. Its a gift to be given 12 hours on hbo. God help you if you dont have something to say. Lets understand each other. Im in a western district. Im not a narco. I dont dirty people because i dont give a [ bleep ] about a possession charge. Im a murder police. Im here about the bodies. David simon was a Newspaper Reporter in baltimore. He spent a year embedded with the baltimore homicide unit to write a book. He and ed burns, who was a police officer, got together and said, what if we tell the whole story of the death of the american city, the futility of the war on drugs, through the eyes of cops . Of drug dealers . Ive got the best territory and no kind of product. I got the best product but could stand a little more territory. Of teachers, of politicians . Just make the entire city into the character itself. You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money, and you dont know where the [ bleep ] its going to take you. The wire broke down systemic racism and the cycle of poverty like no other Television Show had. Come on, get up. Its a school day, youre going to be late. It wasnt just about, hey, look at these black kids chilling drugs on the street. You were in the apartment with them where they had no parents, where they were taking care of their siblings, where they were trying to scrounge for food. Wheres your book bag . Teacher aint give no homework. So you start to get a much more realistic, threedimensional picture of what Poverty Looks like in a city. One of the things about the wire that was so interesting is, it didnt rely on this traditional representation of gangsters. It didnt rely on this traditional representation of cops. It was like reading a great novel or a great series of novels. I think the wire showed the architecture of a full city and the way it layered its characters, particularly omar. Omar was, by all other facets of his life, pretty awful. Yeah, the cheese stands alone. But he had this code that he lived by that made him very touchable and very human. Hey, yo, mike. Hook a sister up, yall. He was openly gay, but people were also very afraid of him. And his sexuality was not necessarily weaponized against him. And for me, i didnt see black gangsters portrayed that way a lot. No matter what we call heroin, its going to get sold. [ bleep ] is strong, were going to sell it. [ bleep ] is weak, were going to sell twice as much. You know why, because a fiend, hes going to chase that [ bleep ] no matter what. Is it the greatest tv show of all time . People always argue about that. Its the greatest tv show to have black people on it ever. Whats the highest compliment someone could pay you about the show . You didnt lie. That would be it. You didnt cheat. Good night, stars. Good night, stars. Good night popos. Good night popos. At the time, hbo was in about 33 million homes. Fx was going to 110 million homes. Thats a lot of people who i think would like programming like this who do not have hbo. And then we said, well, theres got to be a different version of tony soprano. That ultimately was found in the script with vic mackey, who was a cop. Good cop and bad cop lesson of the day. Im a different kind of cop. The pilot of the shield is fascinating because you think that the show is being set up as a cat and mouse game. Vic mackey is secretly in bed with all the gangs and all the drug dealers, making lots of money. Then youre introduced to Terry Crowley this Undercover Cop whos sent to bring him down. You think, oh, thats the show. Ive seen that show before. Ive seen that movie before. Were talking about making the case that puts mack behind bars for a long time. Then you get to the end of the pilot and vic shoots terry in the face. There was some thought that hbo shows did well because they had no commercials. So when a basic cable show like the shield that did have commercials found an audience, All Of A Sudden it just opened the door, and other original programming sprung up like nip tuck. When you stop striving for perfection, you might as well be dead. And rescue me. You Son Of A Bitch and it was a whole new playing field. Tommy for a Payroll Tax Refund of up to 26,000 per employee, even if it received ppp, and all it takes is eight minutes to get started. Then well work with you to fill out your forms and submit the application; that easy. 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What did you see that doesnt make the headline we shall in ukraine are certainly suffering what maybe doesnt come through it is not breaking their will. Cnn this morning monday at 6 00 eastern. Closed captioning. Current crop of 18 to 25yearolds is most politically ap threatic generation in american history, we had difficulty getting west we know under part of that not a lot of reasonable belief on part of nbc that people didnt want to deal with politics. President of the United States now putting Social Security front and center is like running for president of the walt disney situation saying youll fix the rides at epcott. I believe it made it so different was the richness and crash and roads and thoughts i would love for people to think im quick and clever as the characters that i write. But youd be disappointed. If you met me. Josh six pages on English National lunch. Meetings dont just take place sitting down and talking to people. Those are the damn social studies paper. Donna. Look at the memo i gave you what you asked for, dont snap at me we knew that was the essence of the show, the challenge of doing that is number one, lighting. What was the question if you look at that set on the west wing, theres a lot of glass, glass is reflective. So there were a lot of technical challenges that existed. But the biggest challenge by far was the performance challenge. 8 02 five votes jumped the fence they can go beginning middle and end of scene sometimes in one take and it was liberating and intimidating. What the held happened. We dont know. I lot of west wing its a Pleat Fantasy of a political world that is so healthily bipartisan and shows people intensely and emotionally grandpop length with the hard questions 40 of americans have a gun in their home. Only 16 believe Gun Ownership is an absolute right. Own 9 believe its an absolute wrong, theres a middle we can win them. Presented both sides as real human beings that cared. Not easy being my Vice President , is it . No, sir. This was a valentine towards Public Service that i think people were hungry for and so this was a group of people just trying to make the world better . Alexander hamilton didnt think we should have Political Parties neither did john adams, they thought it led to divisiveness. Day two of the socialism youre wait for. The men in canada couldnt destroy it faster than barack obama. Pressuring certain disabled veterans to quote, hurry up and die what you saw in the Media Universe in the 2000s was the splinters of audience and news largely along political lines. Youre watching fox news, real journalism. Roger rails had the brilliant idea of creating a network for conservatives the controversy over john kerry and vietnam war has gotten worse nbc kind of stumbled into the idea of a counterpart our Conspiracy Theorist racist lions and pin heads. There was no longer a shared factual basis for political views, we didnt all go home and watch walter kronkite. On left, James Carville and paul, on the right, Robert Novack and tucker carson, in the cross fire. I remember when john stewart went on cross fire, 2022, john kerry was the president ial nominee facing george w. Bush and i thought this would be a funny show. Can i Say Something quickly . Why do we have to fight . The two of you cant we just estimating nice about john kerry i care about beyond kerry and something about president bush. Ill be unemployed soon. I think anyone who enjoyed paying attacks to the news and watched the daily show will forever remember John Stewart Going On Cross Fire and reading those guys the riot act. Youre doing theater when you should be doing debate. Which would be great. You do its not honest. Its not honest, what you do is partisan hackry. You sniff his thrown and accusing us of partisan hackry. Absolutely. You got to be killing. Youre on cnn, show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone call, what is wrong with you. Comedians and satire when done wright will take on hypocrisy no matter where it comes from. I think the Vice President and his wife love their daughter. I think they love her very much. And and you cant have anything but respect for the fact that theyre willing to talk about the fact that they have a gay daughter. Yes, we drier your love for your gay daughter. If they stepped in it a trusted comic will bring that to the forefront and i think that thats what people like about the daily show. Theres an upcoming election, evidently. I didnt know that. Chief Political Correspondent steven every two years we elect a brand new house of representatives, a third of the senate, its called midterm elections. Its i only vote when the big kahunas are up, elpresident a i cant be running around every two years voting i have a life. I could not have lived without a daily show and colbert becomes a companion show, so companion to watch this hilarious sue dough conserve dumb guy who are the heros . The people who watch this show. Average hard working americans, youre not the i i lets, my country club would never let you in one of the things about being on the company bear, he was playing a character. The book is a nine inside the secret spooky world of the supreme court. Steven had to respond in real time to the guests, as his character, not as himself. Which was an incredible feat of acting as well as kind of quasi journalism thats a big part of the book is how much do the justices political views play a role in how they decide case how much . Why would political views go into it these guys are except the Activist Judges four liberal Activist Judges i can understand why theyre liberal would affect them because theyre Activist Judges but conservative judges are not activists, theyre in activists they yes, i guess youre exactly right. The moment i remember is the moment that barack obama was named president of the United States. Cnn projects the barack obama is the next president of the United States of america, it is now official. He has passed the 270 electoral votes. When you watch the tape, you can see the col bert, the assistant cry and that character cant cry because thats not what the character does. And john stewart he loves colbert so much as human being he covers for him. 297 for barack obama, 139 for john kerry. Next on behind the series, that run with the champ was magical. The tender chicken, the pepper corn ranch, i love my rings. 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Suddenly this show which seemed like this goff thing like you keep chasing after middle eastern terrorists becomes the most timely show On Television because that is all that anyone in america can talk about after september 11th. The name for the series comes from the idea that its 24 episodes in a season each episode is one hour in a day, and jack bower has the worst days were running out of time, pull the trigger i know you care if you care buy me youll pull the trigger. I cant pull the trigger. Damn you. Commercial breaks in that show were almost welcome so you could catch your breath. 24 was really the first bid show if you think about it there were a lot of people in the later years of 24 that would only buy the dvds. Do you think hell come after you yes, and a lot of the subjects and complexities storytellers were doing my god this is blowing me and my i can see it now i just watched three in a row. It was a show made in late 1970s, not a good show but a show with a really good idea, which is civilization has been destroyed humanity is on the run what happens next . Years later, Sci Fi Channel looked at it and said what if we take the seriously . Madam president we have to eliminate the olympic carrier immediately. There are 1300 people on that ship. Star wars feels like fantasy and fable in the best possible sense, this felt like war. Do it. The photographer was shot very much like world war ii combat camera man work. Ok, fire on my mark. No way, lee. Please. Come on. It was as if someone was floating in space with an old world war ii film, and oh here comes silon i want to get this shot, really was riveted by it. Its classic sci fi in that its about using robots in space shifts and clones to comment on The World We Live In now. I cant die. When these bodies destroyed my memory, my consciousness will be transmitted to a new one the soloms look, act and feel like humans you dont really know who youre rooting for anymore. The psychers are rattling around inside that mechanical brain. It was like west wing in space Madam President , without you, we wouldnt have made it. It was just a very rich world, it felt lived in. Felt real. And the stakes could not have been higher. I think lost is the first huge cinematic tv show i saw i remember gathering at a friends house to watch. And it was long enough ago and the internet was still young enough and social media was i mean, not it was friendster. Jj abrams ambition for the lost pilot was grandiose. He always talked about it as making a movie every week. I think when we say the word cinematic, what we really mean is opening it up a little bit more, but also the ambition of an action set piece. Jj was very aggressive, hes like if you want me to do this pilot, youll need to give me the resource in order to do it and ill sheriff wright as a movie and keep that bar up. You start off you think all right this is just a survival drama people are plane crashed how will they get by, find food, et cetera . We hunt. And on top of that, theres this whole mystery where are we . Why cant we get a Rescue Signal . Why is there a polar bear, what is going on. The show averages more than 15 and a half million each week and spawned countless Web Locations where millions of avid fans can obsess the fan base is saying when are you going to answer those mysteries, personally i started feeling hamstrung storywise instantly because we had to do 25 hours of lost in at the first season, so we started communicating to abc were going to run out of flashback stories. Call it jack. You call it. Abc was adamant in saying, no, like the show the is a hit show. People love the flashbacks dont were you guys are great in it keep it up. Are you ok, at the beginning of the third season we had characters locked in cages and i think looking back on it now dan and i are think metaphorically how we felt. Halfway through third season, abc says ok, we will let you end the show and we were like yes, thank god. They said after ten seasons. That the where housewives and lost launched the same year, a huge boost for the network, two shows everybody was talking about. In truth i spent the day as i spent every other day, quietly polishing routine of my life until it gleaned with perfection. I have a lot to say about women who go into the iconic roles of wife and mother and are unfulfilled. I think the good news it brought is women who are not perfect, who are not young, are viable. And a fan base was amazing. And you know, there were tshirts, i remember going into a store and there was i am lynnette are you saying im a bad mother. You need to get back in your car. Im gabby. I am susan. I am bree. Are you at a bar . We stood on the shoulders of those who came before, strong with them characters in television but in the wake of desperate housewives, a lot more shows with older women came on the are. What are you doing . Work myself out naked. Oh. And then i fell. So how are you . The old way of working is deader than me. Well scale up, and well scale down before youre Six Feet Underground. Yes, this is how, this is how we work now. Man i responded to the call. Woman i didnt know if he was guilty or not. Man 2 i couldnt ignore public opinion. Woman 2 i got caught up in the emotion of the trial. Man 3 i could have testified, but i got scared. Man 4 im expected to be tough on crime. Woman 3 i know my son was innocent. Woman 4 i will never forget his final words forgive them. to finally lose 80 pounds and keep it off with golo is amazing. Ive been maintaining. The weight is gone and its never coming back. 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This town of dillon, texas, is on fire. I loved Friday Night Lights, i grew up in colorado, its set in texas but i knew every Single Person on the show. And they werent on the are anyplace else. Amen. Clear yes, i full hearts. Lets get them. The pilot of Friday Night Lights is one of the best pilots of any Television Show ever. They introduce almost instantly to the fact that jason street is the greatest quarterback that Dylon High School ever had. Ive been studying quarterbacks for notre dame 20 year your son may be best ive ever seen. 35 r 40 minutes no the episode, trying to make a tackle. Fumble on the play, fumble. Jason street is hit and hes paralyzed. It is devastating because you get just far enough into the episode to think that may be the bad thing will not happen to this person. Then the show wouldnt be the show. I am going to stay in dillon and father to this baby im going to Coach High School football and i are going to Stay Together and thats the way it is. Yes . No. What do you mean no. You got to say to austin, this is your dream. Thats what im telling you, thats what im telling you. We wanted it to feel like that the audience was just being invited in to a very small town, very intimate setting. I dont want to be responsible. Nor do i want to have this baby be responsible for you not living out your dream, thats what im saying, you are my dream. Ive walked with you all these years to get to this place, you and i together. Its about a couple trying to actually be in a marriage and make it work instead of what we always see On Television and then, i felt a very strong deep desire to not just have her be the sidelines, supporting wife. Looks to me like on your soj. Ourn you missed yourself, two, Biology Exams and a pretty important term paper in english lit, lets start there. I dont know what a soj ourn is its going to keep you back a year if you dont get it together, change your attitude, thats what it is, rest of it you can look up. Glee was an interesting show, it was about high school, they take parts out there and make them part of the story and it was about these misfits out of high school in the glee club, theres a lot of themes about, a, not fitting in, but b, homophobia. Im through with playing by the rules of someone elses game. So specific to my childhood, and like whoever thought that you know, A Bunch Of Misfit Show Choir Losers would become a global thing . I never did. Dont stop. I think glee and ryan murphy really got the general public understanding that oh, there is a person behind this, and theres a person Sense Ability driving the show. Ill be look a sista this is the point which the show runners are almost as famous or more famous than some of the people on their shows, because we care so much about the creative process. Is it the drama and the story usually comes first anmed later. The theme and drama of every episode comes first and we try to find medicine that relates or reflects to that theme. Mr. And mrs. Glass i understand how difficult this is, no disrespect but like held you do. Youll have to make a decision as to how you want to proceed. You mean my babys life or my own . Yes. Grays anatomy revealed what a good Story Terminal Shawn Di rhymes is i love you in a really, really big pretend to like you dont taste in music, let you eat the last piece of cheese cake, hold a radio over my head outside your window, unfortunately, that makes me hate you love you. So pick me. People like sean dra, people are the life blood of Broadcast Networks and in sean todays case its fantastic final al woman, person of color is doing this. Anything that opens doors for more women and more africanamericans and more diverse casting and more diverse crew is a good thing. Shandra stood up and went yes, ill be a show runner, and im going to be a juggernaut ten bucks he misses ten says cries, 50 says he pulls it off. Thats one of us down there, a first one of us, where is your loyalists. Above and beyond the Culture Aspect which is important in grade. We need to remember that she created a bunch of shows terrific fun to watch. You can do this. Ok. When you see things differently you can be the difference. [music plays] if your instinct is to help. Then clearly you care. You have what it takes to be a care professional. Home instead. Apply now and begin your career in caring. Sometimes youre so busy taking care of everyone else you dont do enough for yourself, or your mouth. But eventually, it will remind you. When it does, aspen dental is here for you. We offer the custom dental treatments you need, all under one roof, right nearby. So we can bring more life to your smile. And more smile to your life. Affordably. 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When someone gets a laugh on that stage, they actually hold as you do not in real life as you do not in single camera, youre holding for that laugh. Its an abstract. Not abstract enough. You done an amazing job. Look like something what does it look like . I think most you can even touch it. Im fine. This is bugging me, where have i seen this before. Started studying with phil row send thau was doing with raymond and the best of a genre, interesting characters he provide me with a very, very loud reminder that i didnt need to fix anything, knock any boundaries or walls over. I just needed to embrace what was there. I had been in so many shows that had failed spectacularly that i became known as the show killer. And thats not a great thing to be known as in show business. On the slide i had him come in and read for me. And he was brilliant. How much is a hooker . What are you going to do with a hooker id like to pay her to have sex with me. How much are you looking to spend. Well, as you know i am a bit of a bargain hunter. Youd have unfortunately they wont Stock Hookers at the 99 Cent Store give me a number what could i get in the 200 range . Crabs. And carjacked. I have an enormous sense of pride to have done a multicamera sit come that people really took to their hearts 12 year lets start first position. Jake, do you know first position . Is that like Missionary Position . That was the longest sit come had been on Broadcast Television in the history of Broadcast Television at the time i think big bang will beat it but still thats amazing. Two people talking is the essence of a for Camera Sit Com Lighting is not really an issue, theres no music, thats going to help the material. Check mate no Special Effects again . Its hopefully good work with good actor must be him belling to suck on so many Different Levels big bang had this weird hurdle of not only are you fighting the natural fight that every show does about getting an audience trying to stay on the air keep your job,y ada, clear for the fastest man life, this is is why i wanted to have a costume meeting. There was a weird wave of energy like youre in a jen that we dont want see this anymore. And the emmy goes to, the big bang theory. Obviously it didnt go away and i believe strongly that the multicam, way theyre shot in front of the Studio Audience, you hear the other people laughing, i think it ignites something thats ignited in all of us very pry mall almost that desire to gather as a group and hear a story. Lauren, look, live from new york, its saturday night. Every generation has their favorite Saturday Night Live usually the one on in high school, the people in high school during the 2000s won the jackpot. Youre beautiful, come here. Because over the course of that decade, you see some of the most Extraordinary People come through that show. We should mention that although the waters above appear calm, blow the surface, theres a frenzy of activity. One of the hallmarks of snl is you need somebody to play the president , and willw was stellar. Will far rows georgia bush was how about a life safer. Can i get the antlers too i like these. And of course, mark albo was also a will ferrell high point it was fantastic not only a great concept but because will really gets to be will. Last time i check we dont have a whole lot of song that is feature the cow bell. I got to have my cow bell id be doing myself a disservice and every member of this band snl in the 2000s is the great time for women. Its my birthday. Because theres a strong group of women that playoff each other really well. What are you part indian . Cherokee. What are the cheek bones do you have psiox in you i believe that diplomacy should be the cornerstone of any Foreign Policy and i can see russia from my house i like water fall, i like butter flies. Like rainbows i like chasing cars. You are seeing creativity and whacky left field things you wouldnt have seen before. Andy sandberg and The Lonely Island guys helped make the transition for snl into the digital era and thats when things started to go viral for snl. Everybody look at me, ill sailing on a boat. You know, on the boat or who can forget in a box. Come on. Hold in a box. Put your junk in that box. Three, make them open the box. Thats the way you do it. In a box [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] im a vegas hotel. I know what youre thinking its cool, i dont want anything too serious either. Just a fun, spontaneous thing. Im looking for someone who will let loose. Dress up a little. See a show. Order the steak and the lobster. Some people say im excessive, but who cares. Im just looking for a saturday to remember, and a sunday by the pool. Think you can keep up . torstein vo when you really philosophize about it, theres only one thing you dont have enough of. Time is the only truly scarce commodity. When you come to that realization, i think its very important that you spend your time wisely. And what better way of spending time than traveling, continuing to educate ourselves and broaden our minds . woman vo viking. Exploring the world in comfort. Years faster than our initial projections. When you see things differently, you can be the difference. Capella university sees education differently. Our Flexpath Learning Format lets you earn your bachelors degree at your pace. Welcome to cnn this morning. Thank you for getting up early for us. Now to a cnn exclusive this morning. Were learning new details about the suspected targeted attack. Victor notorious arms dealer is there a threat to americans to other countries now that hes a free man. What did you see that doesnt make the headline people in ukraine i screwed up. Mhm. I got us tmobile home internet. Now Cell Phone Users have priority over us. And your marriage survived that . You can almost feel the drag when people walk by with their phones. Oh i cant hear you. Youre froze ladies, please you put it on Airplane Mode when you pass our house. I was trying to work. Were workin it too. Yeah work it girl woo i want to hear you say it out loud. Well, i could switch us to xfinity. Those smiles. Thats why i do what i do. That and the paycheck. Welcome to david melt said i have a great idea about ancient rome. Cops if ancient rome at the time of nero. Im like, ok, tl, were already doing this show about rome. Thieves will be strangled. Dis certers will be crews if i did david basically took the underlying theme of his rome show and put it in dead wood. No law at all in dead wood. Is that true . At the time of nero, there was a lot of order and no law, and dead wood was similar environment. Maybe you dont value keeping your guts inside your belly enough. Those are the days behind us. No. Those are the days to my left. Ian mcshakens character just steals the show, lock, stock and barrel away from everybody else. You kind of want to go in that saloon and are a drink and try to engage him in conversation then you think to yourself would that be a good idea . If i Say Something wrong ill get my guts cut out with a bowie knife, hes a fascinating character he scares you and attracts you at the same time, thats kind of a rare thing. Can we see your fangs . Daddy hated vampires but we dont. I think true blood was an enjoyable beach read with blood all over it. Youd say it wasnt meant to be teen seriously. It wasnt taking itself seriously. Except it was such a big al gorey for what was going on with the gay community, with aids, with political backlash. You use your tax exempt religious institution as an antivampire terrorist end clave. Theres monsters all over but the scariest most deadly characters in the whole show. Half a dead vampire. Are the human beings. Show time looked at tony saprano and they said you want an antihero . How about a mass murderer, who is the hero of our show . Dexter is based on a series of novels about a Blood Spatter Expert who worked for the miami pd secretly a Serial Killer soon youll be packed into put a few neatly wrapped hefties and my own small corner of the world. Will be a neater happier place he was raised by a policeman to channel his social pathic impulses to only kill other killer, so hes a bad guy but also good guy. I kill reprehensible people. The idea the show is that youre invited to identify with and maybe even root for a Serial Killer thats right he kills horrible people if i were just killing people willynilly i think all bets would be off. Where is the fun in that . In 2000s, the antihero really rose to prominence. Thats a baby gun, my nephew had the same one dont point that there. Its nice work hate to see it full holes. I think they were popular because they were supervising. Youre a free woman. He struck a deal . The da dropped the charges. Thank you. A show for me that was incredibly memorable was damages. Now where is the tape it really was about following the twisted relationship of patty and ellen. What are you looking at it for. Fraud, conspiracy. Obstruction of justice. Mr. Night tells us you might have reasons of your own for wanting to take down ms. Hughes. Yes. I did. I was just so taken with the fact that there was this incredibly Dark Unapologyicly lead character who was a woman. I told pete to have you killed. It was sort of the beginning of a real emergence of Research Women On Television. Art. Shirked take my last one. Is this cab free . Are you nuts i have heard nurse jackie referred to as an antihero, at the mercy of had her addiction, that always got her fullest attention. What are you looking at. Beyond that, i think she really cared that there wasnt money in the budget for extra blankets for someone who came in off the street and she would go and steal it from another department whatever, she really wanted to be a good nurse. And she wanted to be married and she wanted these kids and she wanted to be a good wife and mother. Why do you always have to work . Yeah. And there was no way she could do all of them. Mommy eddie falco for me can do no wrong, here she is the female antihero that has her own show and shes the ones who morals are questionable because shes having an affair. Cant talking love you. Shes stealing drugs and she an unfit mother of all those things yet you feel for her, i love that women now get to be the antihero and not just, i know the villain or the good girl. And i think that is something that the decade gave us, which is a move towards television really reflecting what america looks like. Looks like. Its where businesses meet great remote talent and remote talent meets great opportunity. Back when i had a circular system. This is how we work now hi, im katie, ive lost 110 pounds on golo in just over a year. As a mom, it has been lifechanging. My daughter had lost 20 pounds, my son had lost probably about 40. Were just a lot more healthier as a family in general. We know you care. [music plays] but if this is all too real for you and your loved ones. Make the call. Because we care too. Home instead. To us, its personal. Amc people forget sits for American Movie Classics then figure outlets stop paying for these other movies lets make our own content. I was called in 2005 to come in and meet with the head of amc because they were looking to do scripted programming for the first time. A manager said i have this great script set in the advertising world in new york, its been around eight years, and nobody bought it. Everybody passed advertising is based on one thing. Happiness. He is a Master Of The Universe ad executive in early 19s 60s manhattan but secretly man named dick whitman, stolen the identity of the real john draper during an incident at the korean war, living another mans life but battling his own demons at the same time and we seen him rise and fall over the course of the 1960s. In a lot of ways the most interesting article of the show was peggy oldsons career she goes from a church mouse to a bold career woman he dont knows what to do even during a sexist period for the industry when it was hard for a woman to get anything. Making can you get me coffee no. The female characters are great because they represent different aspects of what with my were going through at that time. You glide around that office like a magnificent ship. I have this incredible experience of reading the feminine mistook and Sex And The Single Girl in one week and i said this is my show. The heros of mad men were the women and the men were obstructions of one kind or another. Im here all day alone with him, out numbered. What about carla . Doesnt she count its not her job to raise our children. It was incorporating the music of the times, the images of the times, the history of the times, and the attitudes of the time. They tell me well have to find out what Color Pan Teas are you wearing . What . Who had blue . Can i walk you home . Mad men had absolutely no nostalgia for the period, showed that people were jerks and adulters and ka knifers even back in the glory days of the 1960s. What are you doing. How they communicated the Kennedy Assassination was actually exactly as it came to pass. They drew their pistols but the damage was done. The back seat everything stopped nothing seemed important ever again and just so happened to be the weekend that rogers daughter was getting married. To all a big wedding. I would put mad men and sapranos in a position of the most important shows in the history of television. I was about to turn 40 and this is about 2004, two years after the end of the x files, and i was kind of at sea, i wasnt sure what to do next, having trouble getting frankly was having trouble getting employed. My buddy tom shnauss had been on the xfiles too and he said i think we should put a meth lab into the back of an Rv Be See America Get Dough on the side he has a warped sense of humor. When i heard the idea, i thought to myself, you know, what if i really did that . What would it take . And then i thought, well, i need money really bad why would i need money. Lung cancer, inoperable. We pitch breaking bad to not even a handful of places some liked it some not so much, it had been kind of dead six months a year. Then i hear hey would you like to see the folks at amc interested at doing breaking bad. Surprise. When we were making the decision to do breaking bad, we absolutely were looking for an antihero show. And we wanted a guy that was going against the grain, that come check this out i see it come on, take it. Check it out. Walt. They always tell you you need to have a good one sentence pitch and i came up with were going to take mr. Chips and turn him into scar face. What we were really going for was change, walter white said it in first hour of the show, electrons they change energy levels, molecules change their bonds. Breaking bad was a study in change. The change that happens to one character as he devolves from good to bad. You know the business and i dont know the chemistry. There was definitely a shift after mad men and breaking bad, that the phones started ringing and a ton of feature people wanted to start making tv shows. Pass the butter, please. Bad ass, dad, it has taken over what the indy feature was, now its walter, youve been busy. It was just so easy to find a car within my budget. Im just happy i was able to pick this baby. Good on ya well drive you happy at carvana. When a truck hit my car, the Insurance Company wasnt fair. I dididt t kn whahatmy c caswa, so i called the barnes firm. Im rich barnes. Its hard for people to k how much their Accident Case is worth. H barnes. T ouour Juryry Aorneneys Hehelpou the Insurance Company getenwasnt fair. Ity y cablele. I didnt know what my case was worth, so i called the barnes firm. Llll theararnes rmrm now the best result possible. Call one eight hundred, Eight Million while its tempting to play it safe, the more were willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took. Theres an old showbiz axiom. Youve got to get off the stage before somebody says, hey, you should get off the stage. Endings are hard in general. And i think the sopranos was able to accomplish this thing that everybody in television is always trying to accomplish, which is do something that no one has ever seen before. Tony is meeting the family at a restaurant, and were listening to a journey song and watching as one by one the Family Members come in, and theres these sinister people lurking around. Strangers waiting we were wondering, was tony going to survive this . Was tony going to be shot . What was going to happen . [ bleep ]. Theyre cutting to Meadow Parking the car. You know, all these things that are completely normal but theyre imbued with this dread. Dont stop believing hold on to that feeling nothings happening. Theyre enjoying a family meal, listening to journey. Street lights people and its building and its building. Dont stop the long black in which everybody said, did i just lose my hbo signal . Whats going on there . I actually thought was kind of like the chord at the end of Sergeant Pepper in which nine pianos just hit this long, long major boooong, and it goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. That black was sort of like what the series needed in order to communicate the fact that it is now officially over. As for sopranos creator david chase, he got whacked in the headlines. He got whacked by the New York Post cartoonist, who showed fans getting whacked. And chase literally got whacked online. Three or four days later carlton and i were in new york talking to a couple of Television Critics about how amazing it was. And theyre like oh, theres a lot of controversy about the sopranos finale. And were like, what . Theyre like oh, yeah, some people just absolutely hate it. The whole cut to black, its pretentious, nobody knows what it means. Theyre all discussing whether tony is alive or dead. Were like, those are all the things that make it brilliant right then we realized we were completely and totally [ bleep ]ed. If youve been fortunate enough to be successful, theyve gone along for a long ride with you. And the viewer has a through line for every character and the show that you could never possibly have. You know i love you, right . More than anything. Of course, honey. So it is a fools errand to try and please anyone but yourself when youre writing a series finale. Finales have become increasingly more important. If you dont do a really good finale to a really good series, the series can sort of lose its luster. But Six Feet Under comes up with a perfect ending, and the show is even enhanced a little bit. The end of Six Feet Under has the daughter just driving away in the car, and music starts to play. Its sias breathe me. And she looks up in the rearview mirror. So shes looking backwards. But then the show looks ahead. Ouch, i have lost myself lost myself that season ended, and everybody died. And i thought it was brilliant. The work on tv is as good as any work thats on a big screen. And so that hierarchy of film and television i think has been changed dramatically. Partially because of the great work that people did at hbo, and also because of the work they did at a lot of other places. Ive waited a long time for this. Coming up as an actor, film was the thing. Tv was like less than. I said bull [ bleep ]. So to suddenly be in an era where we could tell these rich stories entrance has been gained and really create the suspense of them and the trajectory of them. Get over whatever it is and do your job. In ways that maybe we couldnt necessarily in film. I do think that led to where we are now where everybody wants to be on tv. Sit down, you guys. No no oh, yeah, you cant sit there. Why not . Thats where sheldon sits. He cant sit Somewhere Else . Oh, no, you see, in the winter that seat is close enough to the radiator so that hes warm yet not so close that he sweats. In the summer its directly in the path of the crossbreeze created by opening windows there and there. It faces the television on the angle that isnt direct so he can still talk to everybody yet not so wide that the picture looks distorted. Perhaps theres hope for you after all. Welcome to all of you watching here in the United States and around the world