- 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, and in terms of sex. - to a large degree, a lot of executives were just sanding off the edges of what was interesting. [static hums] [bright tone] - i think hbo is looking at the world and going, okay, how can we matter? for quite a long time, movies and boxing where the bread and butter of hbo. - people watch your show because you re partly an [bleep]. - and i think what we ve learned through shows like larry sanders show or oz is that we could do series television. - there s something in the air.
in a tree, lecturing about what they should do as their group. - nobody s working toward a particular goal not the silly little stuff about, oh, who s gonna sleep where? what are we gonna do? but, why are we here? - and underneath him was this woman, sue hawk, a truck driver. - i m a redneck, and i don t know corporate world law, and the corporate world ain t gonna work out here in the bush. - that was the show. - he walks around naked quite a bit. i think it probably bugs some of the guys. - whatever it takes to win here is the point. it s a game, and call it machiavellian, sure. - we had no idea that richard hatch would be the best thing to ever happen to survivor. [traditional woodwind music] - all around the country, people were on the edge of their seats, waiting for the final vote to be announced. - the winner of the first survivor competition is. [tense music] [cheering] - survivor sort of legitimized the genre. [upbeat music]
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happen to this person but then the show wouldn t be the show i m going to stay in dillon i m going to be a father of this baby and this family. i m going to coach high school football and you and are going to stay together and that s the way it is yes no. what do you mean? no. you got to go to austin. this is this is your dream. us what i m telling you that s what i m telling what we wanted it to feel like. was the audience was just being invited in to a very small town, very intimate setting that s why i don t want to be responsible nor do i want to have this baby be responsible for you not live in out your dream. and that s what you are my dream. walk with you all these years to get to this place. you and i together this is about just a couple trying to
- are you smoking? - nope. - yes, you are. i heard you. - i m no no, i m not. - look, forget you ll give yourself cancer and die a slow and horrible death. you should not be stinking up that new hearse. - i met with carolyn, and she said, i d like to do a show about a family that runs a funeral home, and something in my head just went, click. i thought, what a brilliant idea. - i m quitting right now. [spits] i promise. [clears throat] okay? i ll see you tonight. - i ll be home for christmas - alan ball comes up with a show with a perfect structure. each episode starts with the death of a character, and then that character s death is dealt with in a local family funeral home mortuary.