- advertising is based on one thing: happiness. - [shouting excitedly] - is there any taboo that you wouldn t break? - not if there was a funny idea. - what is wrong with you? - there s so much different storytelling - and so many different stories being told - about so many different people. - i don t think dramatic series television has ever been stronger. - there s no longer this theory of what - popular entertainment must be. - incoming! - who are the heroes? the people who watch this show. [slowly building orchestral music] - this is the week when the major broadcast networks unveil their fall lineup of shows, and every executive in hollywood knows how well the sopranos is doing on cable, which is a network problem. - i think hbo altered everything for this reason alone, is there were no commercials. - we are dependent on sponsors. there is so much we can do in terms of language, in terms of violence, and in terms of sex. - to a large degree, a lot of executives we
there s no longer this theory of what popular entertainment must be. incoming! who are the heroes? the people who watch this show. this is the week when the major broadcast networks unveil their fall lineup of shows. and every executive in hollywood knows how well the sopranos is doing on cable, which is a network problem. i think hbo altered everything for this reason alone, is there were no commercials. we are dependent on sponsors. there s so much we can do in terms of language, in terms of violence, in terms of sex. to a large degree, a lot of executives were just sanding off the edges of what was interesting. i think hbo is looking at the world and going, okay, how can we matter? for quite a long time, movies and boxing were the bread and butter of hbo. people watch a show because you re partly a [ bleep ]. i think what we learned through shows like the larry sanders show or oz is that we could do serious television. there s somethin
world. it is tuesday, may 31st. and i m brianna keilar with john berman. america has seen 17 more mass shootings since 19 children and two teachers were killed in one of the nation s deadliest school shootings last week. in those other shootings, 13 people were killed. dozens more were injured this is according to the gun violence archive which defines a mass shooting as four or more people being shot or killed not including the shooter. new this morning, cnn has obtained video from a facebook live stream during the uvalde shooting of a frantic radio call. listen to this. are you injured? i got shot. where? where? a kid got shot. although it sounds like the voice of a child it s not clear whether it s student or law enforcement officer. the man who recorded this said the audio came from a radio in a customs and border protection vehicle outside the school. happening today, a bipartisan group of senators will meet virtually to discuss gun shafety legislation. the
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