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And we reached out to felicia henderson. - hey, baby. - [pearlena] and a lot of these stories or just stories that she was able to generate from her own life. - it's hard to be the first. it's hard to be a part of a group of the first. i think that as black people, we deserve to be seen as three dimensional characters. we deserve for you to see us with all of our frailties. i don't think that that's negative, i think it's just human. - i'm so sorry. come here. - it was also a show where i was the network executive. i was a black network executive. we had a black studio executive. we had black ...
>> baby, can you take her >> when we were at showtime we decided we wanted to adopt "soul food" into a tv show we thought it was important from a cultural perspective to have someone that can tell the stories ethically, we reached out to felicia henderson. a lot of the stories were stories she generate friday her own life. >> it is hard to be the first. you know, it is hard to be part of a group of the first. i think that as black people we deserve to be seen as three dimensional characters. we deserve for you to see us with all of our frailty. i don't think it is negativity. i think it is hum...
>> nonstop forensic files and classic don lemmon moments. here's a moment from 2011 -- >> 10 minutes of wolf blitzer every day. >> inappropriate sitcoms from the 70's they all hated. it's archie bunker hour. let's go. by the way, pretty sure they're ironically clapping, erin. what -- if you were to buy it, would you -- what are the changes you'd make? >> i'm not a network executive so i'm not really sure i'd be the right person for this part of the industry. >> greg: there's no right person. >> it's clearly not working. going back to what didn't work, if zucker bought it and it didn't work out...
Maybe it'll get me backers if cnn decides to sell. doesn't sound like a serious enterprise so i don't take it seriously. >> greg: what about fox buying it? >> competition? >> greg: buy it and smush it with fox business then all of a sudden fox business is this monolith. >> you thought way too much about this. >> greg: i do. just like you do with magazines. you buy another magazine, take out your subscribers and build out the magazine. >> you have the 16 cnn subscribers. >> that was cnn+. >> that was cnn+. >> greg: what? >> is he still on cnn+? >> greg: yeah. >> he's just waiting. >> he's just ...