and he created a boy band called o-town. - yes. - so what are we doing this time? - what you gonna see is something totally different. you re gonna see from the hip-hop perspective, gonna see me nurture and sculpt a group from the ground up. - puff realized that the format of what they was looking for wasn t happening in black culture, so puff rearranged this show and made it black. - puffy just told us to go to the store in brooklyn and bring him back a cheesecake and walk. - diddy comes out with making the band , excuse me, puff. - yeah. - this was before he was diddy. - puff daddy. - and you watch it, and you re like, wow. he really has these people walking to brooklyn to get cheesecake. what does that have to do with the music industry? - can t believe y all, stop walking to (beep) brooklyn. is you crazy? - just hearing diddy every week, i m shutting down the studio. - [puff] i m shutting down the studio. - i think that making the band was so fun, and ridiculous, and over th
it was like everybody wanted go to joe to tell you like it is. - bring him to us and we ll be fair. - so to see this influx of black judges on television now, it inspires young black kids to like, oh, i can do that too. oh, i can be a judge. - this matter, it is so ordered. (siren ringing) - [protestor] you are the only ones armed in this crowd. - in the early 2000 s, more and more people had become fed up with the system. - [protestors] put the guns down. put the guns down. - [newscaster] officers got physical with people who stood in the middle of the street. - judge shows allowed us to look at the criminal justice system with a bit of levity. unscripted also had a space for a raw gritty look at street crime. - as we, as a nation right now, are grappling with policing in this country, and black americans deep-seeded distrust of police in this country, you have a show like first 48 , which contradicts that by showing black detectives in the first 48 hours of a crime, trying to sol
we had just elected obama. there was hope everywhere. the fight for gay marriage was getting stronger, and people were talking about lgbtq representation in a way that they had never done before. - it s not just a show at this point, it s a language, it s a bridge. you know, i ve had moments introducing my family to different aspects of the black queer experience just by watching that show. - you could never have a sugar daddy because you are not that kind of girl. - this is what people miss about rupaul s drag race , it s a great television program. (gasps) - you fake ass, dominique deveraux wanna be! (yells) - they re legit showing up and falling out on this show. - it is just such a phenomenal star-making show. - one year later, i m in front of mike ruiz again. i have something to prove. get out here and turn it out. - it s the kind of legacy i hope to leave. it has changed the actual world. - [rupaul] for people like tyler perry, or eddie murphy,
that portrayed us looking for love. - so in the mid 2000 s, you had docu-series, you had relationship dating shows, but there was really an absence of representation of the black family. and then, the self-proclaimed king of r&b came and changed all of that, in a way a lot of us didn t see coming. - yeah. (whitney singing) - that show was so successful about the life of bobby and whitney. it got so many ratings. it just launched bravo network. - whitney, you aint gonna do (beep). what are you gonna do, put your hand on me? - at that time, whitney was still one of the biggest stars in the world, and we got this peek into the insane life they were living. - [whitney] no. - [bobby] sure. you can take a picture of me. - [rickey] bobby brown seemed to love the limelight. - i say, no. he says, yes. - whitney houston kind of ran from it. every episode of being bobby brown was crazy. (techno music) - it was followed soon after by braxton family values .
and generated some huge stars. you know, ruben studdard, fantasia, and of course, jennifer hudson. - ladies and gentlemen, give it up, please for jennifer hudson. how does this moment feel right now, fantasia? - you know what? i always say, i ve been through some things, but i worked hard to get to where i m at. - i think that it s extremely special that this show showcased black voices in the way that it did. you definitely understand the impact that the show has had on the music industry, because it brings out the real talent. - you had american idol that was this huge hit on fox. and it was totally devoid of a hip-hop anything, which i mean, really kind of paved the way, if you think about it, for puff daddy to come through. he said, what? ain t no nothing, nowhere? making a band it is. the making of the band on mtv, come on - the first version, first edition of this show, lou pearlman went out and he created a boy band called o-town.