a art film doing in prime time television? american network television has long been considered the home of the blands, the cautious and the predictable. so it was with some trepidation that it the abc network launched a new series that was none of those things. twin peaks has already described by one critic as the series that will change tv. it s directed by david lynch. david lynch was a filmmaker known for his taste in the eccentric and memorable. the idea that he would do television in the 90s was crazy. do you watch much of it? i like the idea of television, but i m too busy to see very much of it. what do you think of that which you do see? some of it i really enjoy. are you being diplomatic? sort of. [ screaming ]
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, it s got to be something that couldn t 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. you ve watched letterman, you ve watched leno, but what about larry? larry sanders, that is. he s the tv alter ego of comedian garry shandling. garry shandling wanted to do a show that deconstructed the kind of show the tonight show was. just pretend like you re talking to me till we re off the air so it won t seem weird. okay. blah, blah, blah, blah. the larry sanders show was sort of cathartic. because in the world of the
and i m choking up talking about it right now, because that s how great a moment of tv that it is. 20 years from now, the best tv dramas, what do they look like? i don t know. will they be bolder than what we see today? oh, assuredly, assuredly they will be. the 90s gave us several shows that didn t really explode in the ratings, but were very influential to other people making television. homicide is one of them. shell me with questions all night i m living in a danger zone homicide: life on the street was really innovative in terms of its style. it used music in ways that advanced the narrative and also used feature film directors that brought a look and style to the show that really stood out on television. tears coming out of your eyes. ain t no tears coming from my eyes. those eyes are brimming with tears. they had so many african-american characters in the cast that on several occasions they were the only people on camera interacting
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of tv but it was being applied to shows that were reaching higher and farther, and they were great. because there was so many channels and because so much storytelling was going on, you started to get more variety of stories being told. get the skull film, schedule a c.a.t. scan, and call the neurosurgery resident. objection! television showed us women in their depth. it began to show us much more of a range of the african-american community. i m always here for you. we started focusing on teenagers in a more realistic way. things change, dawson, evolve. what are you talking about? had you thinking a little more outside the box in terms of what people might want to watch. you re out of order. he s out of order. this whole trial is sexy. after ten years of the 90s, we had a whole new television world that could take us anyplace we wanted and even places we had never imagined. was that the oven timer?