Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170717:00:13:00
Original programming for cable, but they were airing movies. so, we needed to compete and i felt that if we didn't, we were going to, you know, kind of get swept out. and so i came up with the notion of doing a cop show that was r rated. when abc's broadcast standards read our skipt, they went berserk. >> i was sitting with a pad and a pencil drawing pictures of breasts showing them what we would and wouldn't show. grown-ups in a room doodling. >> then we started in on the language. >> we saw the low life asshole with the brains of a flea and the balls of a moth. >> it premiered with an advert...