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The networks. basically quality migrates to cable. >> "oz" comes on in '97. it's set in this fictional penitentiary. wow, what a strange show that was. >> in "oz" sometimes the things you can't touch are more real than the things you can. hatred, loneliness are more real to me than a shank and a soul. >> it was jaw droppingly violent. it's a men's prison. 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."

Basically, quality migrates to cable. >> "oz" comes on in '97. and it's set in this fictional penitentiary. wow. what a strange show that was. >> in "oz," sometimes the things you can't touch are more real than the things you can. for instance, here, hatred, fear, loneliness are more real to me than a shank and a soul. >> it was jaw-droppingly 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 ...

>> ronnie tye might have to let go of something as well. the prison has denied his request to be married, and things are about to get even worse. >> this is approximately a seven-inch weapon that the offenders carry. what we call shanks. a homemade knife. it's made out of a steel rod you can find inside the cabinet. >> the shank was not found in tye's cell but in that of his half-brother, william wilson. >> i just moved into the cell like a week ago. i have no clue how it got there. >> wilson is serving a life sentence for the murder of tye's other brother during a methamphetamine-induced hall...

>> what was it? >> angle iron. >> i had been working here for about six months. conrad complained like he always did. i went to give him the phone. the officer opened the door, came out with a shank. lucky i have a hard head and it bounced off my head and just cut me in the back. sent me to the hospital. came back to work this day. i'm going to see about -- i just come do my job. that's all. i'm not -- i don't want to act like them, you know? >> he says he doesn't take it personal. >> would you take it personal, someone stabbed you in the head? >> oh, definitely. probably retaliate, you know? ...

>> "oz" comes on in '97. it's set in this penitentiary. wow, what a strange show that was. >> in "oz" sometimes the thing you can't touch are more real than the things you can. for instance, hatred, loneliness are more real to me than a shank and a soul. >> 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 up this morning ♪ got yourself a gun