CNN History of the Sitcom June 4, 2024 02:19:00
Tim reid: back in the 60's whenever a black person was on television, it was particular pressure. yvette: it was a huge responsibility for diahann carroll to have broken that ground. carroll: it was a bit too much, but i mean the responsibility of it was maybe one that i shouldn't have taken so seriously, marc copage: and it really drove miss carroll to the verge of a nervous breakdown. carroll: and there are a lot of people who think i didn't take it seriously enough. but i do think we were a beginning, that beginning i think has resulted in a lot of the things we see on the air today. [ appl...