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 full 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. right. 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 edg
astonishing of all the races in all of the states that are holding elections tomorrow. it is basically a shoe in for this guy, and that is amazing. so, you ve got that story, and that coverage coming up this hour. we re also gonna get some expert help this hour as well, on the potential impact, potential consequences, of a very unexpected high-profile resignation from a russian diplomat today. today, he not only resigned from the russian government, he put them on blast over putin s invasion of ukraine, and putin s corruption, and what putin has done to russia. one of the consequences of that, in terms of public morale, and the sort of guys of public morale in russia, and potentially, one of the consequences for that guy who resigned today. so, that expert help on that, and we got a bunch of news to get into tonight. but when i start with something that is taking us more than a year to figure out. it was last year, last january, one week after the january 6th attack on the u.
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by saying you re gonna fix the rides at epcot. - i think what made it so different than any other show i d worked on was the richness of character and words and thoughts and images that aaron sorkin wrote. - i would love for people to think that i m as quick and clever as the characters that i write, but you d be disappointed if you met me. - josh. - yeah - six pages on english as the national language. - meetings don t just take place sitting down and talking to people. - and the - i didn t ask for a damn social studies paper. i wanted. - don t snap at me, josh. - donna. - look at the memo. i gave you what you asked for. don t snap at me. - so we knew that was the essence of the show this movement. - what s wrong with everyone today? - the challenge of doing that is, number one, lighting. - what was the question? - if you look at that set on the west wing, there is a lot of glass. glass is reflective, so there were a lot of technical challenges that existed, but the biggest challen
wouldn t break? no, not if it was a funny idea. it s all about funny. yeah. so this is the magic trick, huh? illusion, michael. a trick is something a whore does from money. arrested development was absolutely firing on all cylinders from the first episode to the last. don t you judge me? you re the selfish one. you re the one who charged his own brother for a bluth frozen banana. i mean, it s one banana, michael. what could it cost, $10. you ve never actually set foot in the supermarket, have you? if you got it, it was the funniest thing you ever saw. because it assumed its audience was as smart as its writers. when you got there, don t be afraid to make a i m not gonna beat myself up over that. it was so clever and more meta than just about any show that s ever been on television. your average american male is in a perpetual state of adolescence, you know, arrested development. hey, that s the name of the show. it was really smart in the eye that you c