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. 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, 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
work when it was bending a genre. take something that s familiar and give it some chili pepper. advertising is based on one thing, happiness. 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. 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
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
three people come to me wearing suits and one of them tells me that he hadn t made it and i was like, no, he did. just go check. they come back and tell me, miss hall, he did not make it. [crying] two women racing down a texas highway. she saw me make a u-turn. bonnie, the mistress in one lane. i looked in my rearview mirror and it was francis. francis, the wife and the other. i gave her the middle finger. the middle finger? right. i start following her. i say what the hell. she breaks, and i break, and he s pronounced dead at the hospital. two women in love with one man, hating each other. you are getting text messages from bonnie of the two of them having sex. yes. a hollywood love story? this was the man i wanted to marry. or a fatal attraction. he goes i can t get rid of this person. and so many about to lose so much. why? i will live with that for the rest of my life. hello, and welcome to dateline. bill and francis hall