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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 was no commercials. We are dependent on sponsors. Theres 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 qu...

Storytelling and so many different stories being told about so many different people. I dont think dramatic Series Television has ever been stronger. Theres 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. Theres so mu...

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 youre partly a [ bleep ]. I think what weve learned through shows like the Larry Sanders show or oz is that we could do serious television. Theres something in the air. And it aint love. Oz was cutting edge in what it was willing to share with the audience. Hit me. Hit me. Hit me in the face, brother. Complicated characters, complicated issues. And the way it was presented was so, uh, u...

[sirens blaring] - good night, popos. - good night, popos. - [chuckles] - at the time, hbo was in about 33 million homes. well, fx was going to 110 million homes, so that's a lot of people who i think would like programming like this who do not have hbo. [exciting music] and then i just said, "well, there's got to be a different version of tony soprano," and that ultimately, we found in the script, that was vic mackey, who is a cop. - the good cop and the bad cop left for the day. i'm a different kind of the cop. - the pilot of "the shield" is fascinating, because you think that the show is be...

- then you get to the end of the pilot, and vic shoots terry in the face. [rock music] ♪ ♪ - there was some thought that hbo shows did well because they had no commercials. so when a basic cable show like "the shield" that did have commercials found an audience, all of a sudden, it just opened the door, and other original programming sprung up, like "nip/tuck." - when you stop striving for perfection, you might as well be dead. - and "rescue me." [alarm ringing] - you son of a bitch! - and it was a whole new playing field. - tommy! [people shouting] [alarm ringing]