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I honestly couldn't quite believe it, that television was communicating something that you might only see in the darkest moments-- and accurate moments-- in cinema. [distant radio chatter] [mystical drum music] ♪ ♪ - you look at the year that "american beauty" won the oscar-- which is also the year that "the sopranos" debuted-- and almost immediately after that, the two mediums diverged. - i know what i must do, but i'm afraid to do it. [epic music] - movies became much more focused on big tent-pole things that can bring in as much of an audience as you possibly can. meanwhile, tv, which h...

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 that was amazing to me about "john adams" was it was done as realism. - people are hurt when they fight for what is rightfully theirs! - you approve a brutal and illegal act to enforce a political principle, sam! - just the grittiness of founding a nation. - and liberty will reign in america! - and trying to figure out what a president is. - god bless george washington, president of the united states. [cheers and applause] - it's a gift to be given...

[distant sobbing and screaming] [screaming] - excuse me. - this was one of my first-- and 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. i've been watching her all night. are you thinking what i'm thinking? both: casket climber. - [gasps] - i want to go with you! - mrs. romano, mrs. romano! - i want to go with you! - whoa, whoa, whoa, mrs. romano. - there's a whole new level of something going on on television. it was grittier than most shows you'd ever seen before, and yet somethin...

"is anyone gonna want them sit around watching people sew?" - i am feeling the race against time now, yes. - bravo played, like, 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! - mtv had "the osbournes," and it was fun, because, you know, the whole idea of, you know, the guy who bit the heads off of bats, you know, being domestic, and his wife and his teenag...

The chances we never took there's an old showbiz axiom. >> you gotta 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 we're listening to a journey song and watching is one by one, the family members come in and there's these sinister people lurking around we're you were wondering is tony going to survive this? >> was to...