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It probably should be. but you know, it kind of announces the idea that hbo is going to get very serious about doing scripted dramas. >> it's finished. it's over. >> but hbo really, in my mind, comes into its own in 1999 with "the sopranos." >> "sopranos" just is a -- one of those shows that was a benchmark. it changed like, a lot of things for everybody. >> throw out the handbook. tony soprano, the lead actor in a drama, he killed a man. we watched him. when he took his daughter on a college tour. >> pretty, huh? >> yeah. >> it was just a melding of a guy and a world. >> open the [bleep] door...

>> 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" wa...

Fear, hatred, loneliness are more real to me than a shank. >> it was jaw dropingly violent. it was a men's prison. it probably should be. but you know, it kind of announces the idea that hbo is going to get serious about doing scripted dramas. >> it's finished! it's over! >> but hbo really in my mind comes to its own in 1999 with the sopranos. ♪ ♪ woke this morning, got yourself a gun ♪ >> it's just one of those shows that was a benchmark that changed a lot of things for everybody. >> throw out the handbook. tony soprano, the lead actor in a drama, he killed a man. we watched him.

>> the early '90s the hbo shows start to kind of come into their own. >> and then have i always had these breasts? >> a lot of people want freedom. they don't want to go back to the networks which are saying, you can come to us where you'll make more money but you'll also have content restricted. you could go to cable and have no restrictions. not make as much money but have freedom of expression, which almost everybody who works in these mediums wants. >> some of the content truly was, you can't get this anywhere else. >> you're a fantasy maker, the only limit on the kinds of fantasies is peo...

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