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that you couldn t have on network television. - people are really trying to do something adventurous. [both gasp] all: channel 7, shame on you. - this is more a celebration of culture and opening the doors and allowing america to come on inside. - there s always something on television, and some of it may be better than we deserve. - [laughs] that was cool. [dramatic music]
- listen to it. oh! [crowd cheering] they know when it hits the bottom, it ll be 1990. good-bye to the 80s in. all: ten, nine. all: eight. eight! eight! eight! - oh, will this horrible year never end? - when the 90s begin, we re starting to see a lot of experimentation. [gunshots] all: [quickly] seven, six, five, four, three, two, one! [cheering] - and the simpsons, i think, in some senses was inspired by not necessarily a hatred of television but a distrust of a lot of the ways in which television was talking to us. - tv respects me. it laughs with me, not at me. - [laughing] you stupid - d oh! - i think the sitcoms of the 80s. - i love you guys. - were such a sort of warm, safe humor.
they don t wanna go back to the networks, which are saying, you can come to us where you ll make more money, but you also have content restricted. you could go to cable and have no restrictions. not make as much money but have freedom of expression, which almost everybody who works in these mediums wants. [dance music playing] - some of the content truly was, you can t get this anywhere else. - here at fantasy makers, the only limit on the kinds of fantasies is people s imagination. [upbeat music] - hbo turned to people who had said, i can t do that on television, but you can do it on hbo. - white people don t trust black people. that s why they won t vote for no black president. like, a black brother will [bleep] up the white house. like, the grass won t be cut. dishes piled up, cousins running through the white house, cookouts, basketball goal in the back. - in the late 80s, hbo was just sort of gaining ground for series.
- the x-files changed the way people watch television. - you could sense these successful creators trying to see how they could do things different than they had done five or ten years ago. sometimes that led to really challenging network television that was cool and fun to watch. and sometimes it just seemed to fall off the edge a little bit. - and let s be careful out there - at the time, steven bochco was a very successful producer of hour dramas and wanted to try something brand-new. - this is the police! we have a warrant for your arrest! - hit it! - you have ten seconds to open this door! - and so his idea was to combine a gritty cop show with a broadway musical. [hip-hop music] - i saw one in which a bunch of gangbangers were in jail. and they began to sing. life in the hood ain t no pizza pie everybody die when the bullets fly