ridiculous. 1980s, the decade of excess, the television was big giant dramas. you are out of this operation, tubbs, as of now there is no operation without me, crockett we have bill cosby now we get tubbs on miami vice smooth, swaggering, fashion sense that, you know, eclipsed alex scott on i spy the characters were 20 years apart but speaking to one another. i remember it has a fashion show more and more than anything else. you know, the pastels, the collars, he was the black guy that white dads were worried their daughters would bring home. that was coolness and it went with making different types of
success for an african american drama on television. and, it was about the music business. the good, bad and ugly, the gritty. i never let anything come between friendship. accept a bullet. [sound of gunfire] [music] i love you. don t say that. they sent over this world. they sent over the script. to this day it is one of the top three. tv, film black women aren t ugly, we are invisible. i am really proud of the collaborative work. they have a lot of room of black people and specifically
you guys have no idea how good you ve got it. how old are you? like, 80? back in my day, it was scary stories and flashlights. we don t get scared. oh, really? mom can see your search history. that s what i thought. introducing the next generation 10g network. only from xfinity. (upbeat music) (dramatic orchestra music) - i believe that the future of black television comes in ownership, and it comes in all the people now that are investing in programming, but not programming to your traditional places, but programming to places that we own, we operate, and we can have our own voice. - at the end of the day, for any business, you wanna own things. i mean, and until you own it, until you re creating it,
pilot but they say can you get rid of the black guy? they did not feel cosbee would work. sydney refused. he stuck with cosby on that. this time, no element of surprise, no car crashes. he won an emmy for that. the series won a golden globe in 1967. certainly i think it say landmark moment but then you think how much time passed from the time he had that role and a notion of equal billing between the two, you know, it took forever to get back to that again. also, white america had to acknowledge that something had changed. not just on television but in america. immediately after i spy 1966 was called the year of the negro on television.
it is complicated. you know when i did private practice with shaundra ryme, i was playing a black woman with bipolar. how often have we seen that? and i was tiggs sister. she continues to put black people in areas we are not allowed to tread. after barack became president barack obama, it was to see in television the shift of the kind of images that you saw it is a dirty little secret and dirty little secrets always come out. don t they. when i think of actors, it