embarrass today admit they watch television. we have seen the news and it is us. slowly but surely the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! as you begin the 80s in the television world, the landscape was on any given evening nine out of ten people were watching one of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it. what is it? primetime pot boilers like dallas. it will ruin the ewing family name. a thought like that never crossed my mind. brother or no brother dallas captivated america for 13 years. dallas is rooted in the 1970s and one of the crazy things is this character j.r. ewing as a pop phenomenon. tell me, j.r., what slut are you staying with tonight? what difference does it make? any of them have to be more interesting than the slut i am looking at now. at this point so many people were watching television that you could do something unexpected that it would
makeshift camera from home when i had to broadcast from home because i was in covid quarantine back in november. because i had to do that back in november, i knew i could do this again so i just wheeled the whole setup back out again tonight. the roads are not fit for manor beast nor cable news hosts so, again, apologies for things looking a little higglety piggelty. i ll be back in the studio tomorrow night. january 2009, barack obama was inaugurated as the 45th president of the united states with joe biden as his vice president, in january 2009, over 800,000 americans had just lost their jobs. the great recession caused by insanity in the financial industry and the accompanying wall street collapse. the economy had been hemorrhaging jobs for months at a rate not seen since the great depression when president obama was inaugurated. unemployment was headed for 10%. the wall street collapse had wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth. people were hurting. people were very sca
quarantine back in november. because i had to do that back in november, i knew i could do this again so i just wheeled the whole setup back out again tonight. the roads are not fit for manor beast nor cable news hosts so, again, apologies for things looking a little higgledy-piggledy. i ll be back in the studio tomorrow night. january 2009, when barack obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the united states with joe biden as his vice president, in january 2009, over 800,000 americans had just lost their jobs. the great recession caused by insanity in the financial industry and the accompanying wall street collapse. the economy had been hemorrhaging jobs for months at a rate not seen since the great depression when president obama was inaugurated. unemployment was headed for 10%. the wall street collapse had wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth. people were hurting. people were very scared. and one of the reasons americans had just elected obama and biden by a n
so again, apologies for things looking a little higglty-pigglty. no reason to worry. i will be back in the studio tomorrow night. okay, january 2009, when barack obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the united states with joe biden as his vice president, in january 2009, over 800,000 americans had just lost their jobs. the great recession caused by insanity in the financial industry and the accompanying wall street collapse. the economy had been hemorrhaging jobs for months at a rate not seen since the great depression, when president obama was inaugurated. unemployment was headed for 10%. the wall street collapse had wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth. people were hurting. people were very scared. and one of the reasons people had just elected obama and biden by a nearly 10 million-vote margin, and also given democrats control of the house and the senate, by huge margins, was that americans really desperately wanted the new government to dig the country ou
of the best selling of all time, has died at the age of 7a. the us and russia remain at a diplomatic stand off with their military assets standing by. after months of escalating tensions, the two superpowers have been holding talks about ukraine, which nato fears is the next sovereign territory moscow wants to seize through force. remember, it s less than a decade since russia annexed crimea. russia says it s concerned nato is sending weapons and military expertise to ukraine and wants guarantees that the organisation will pull back from its borders. speaking after the talks in geneva, russia s foreign minister, sergei lavrov, said the dialogue would continue and his country had no plans to attack ukraine. russia is understood to have more than 100,000 troops currently near its border with ukraine. 0ur diplomatic correspondent james landale sent this report. more russian forces on the move, surface to air missiles in the country s far east, due to join what moscow says are mi