- 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 this whole mystery: where are we, why can t we get a rescue signal, why is there a polar bear, what is going on here? - the show averages more than 15 1/2 million viewers each week and spawned countless web locations where millions of avid fans can obsess. - the fan base is saying, when are you going to answer these mysteries? personally, i started feeling hamstrung, story-wise, almost instantly, because we had to do 25 hours of lost in the first season. - hey! - so we started communicating to abc, we re gonna run out of flashback stories. [electricity zaps] [machine beeping] - call it, jack. - you call it. - and abc was adamant in saying, no, like, the show is a hit show. people love the flashbacks. don t worry. you guys are great at it. just keep it up. - you okay, freckles? - at the beginning of the third season of the show,
war is worsening by the day. the u.n. says almost 5 1/2 million people have now fled ukraine since the invasion began in late february. more than half of them are children. that is according to unicef. the vast majority of refugees continue to head west with more than 3 million crossing into poland alone. well, it was a touch and go really for a couple of white lions trapped in a zoo while fighting raged all around them. thanks to the manager of the odessa zoo and his deputy, these two 6-year-old lions were saved. they are beautiful. the men drove nearly 18 hours, avoiding precarious lines to pick up the big cats from the park and transport them to odessa. the lions are named after lion king characters. how can we forget meufasa? they are now getting settled in their new home. at new york s metropolitan opera over the weekend, have a
warned that any strikes on russian soil will be met with a swift response. they are saying do not test russia s patience on this, but, of course, whoever is responsible for these, it continues to be a pattern that we ve seen over really the last two months or so. scott, appreciate it. keep us posted on the mariupol vark wags. very important. scott mclean there. now, the refugee crisis from this war is worsening by the day. the u.n. says almost 5 1/2 million people have now fled ukraine since the invasion began in late february. more than half of them are children. that is according to unicef. the vast majority of refugees continue to head west, with more than 3 million crossing into poland. i want to bring in james elder, spokesperson for unicef. very good morning to you, james. thanks for taking the time to speak to us. let me start if i could on the evacuations we re seeing from mariupol. finally we re getting a
euros of weaponry to kyiv, something le pen had said she would be prudent about. she also announced that she wanted a strategic between nato and russia. in the end, neither of her positions on nato and the e.u. nor her proximity to moscow prevented marine le pen from achieving a historic score, coming within 5 1/2 million votes of emanuel macron. she is now looking to june s legislative elections to try and deprive him of his governing majority, which could present challenges for france s continued support to ukraine. and le pen is far from alone in europe, with allies amongst the bloc s far-right and euro skeptic parties. many of them historically close to moscow. by monday morning she arrived at her headquarters defeated but unbowed, vowing to start a fresh fight for her own vision of the future.