Peter, welcome. Thank you for joining us. Its really great to speak to you today. I thank you for asking, inviting. So youve written quite a bit over the years about about hollywood, particularly the movie industry. This book is a really wonderful tour of modern tevision and how it evolved into a medium for deep, provocative, original storytelling. Weve all become familiar with this term that were that were living through the golden age of tv with these shows like mad men and breaking bad and succession. And the list goes on and on. What made you want to tackle this subject now . And also with so much ambition and sweep, this is a book that spans several decades. Well, basically, because, you know, movies have declined. You know, theyve become you know, theyve become a monoculture here of superheroes. You know, basically through marvel, somewhat through dc and there was it just seemed to me that there was less and less interesting work being done in the movies. And a lot of the talent
Peter, welcome. Thank you for joining us. Its really great to speak to you today. I thank you for asking, inviting. So youve written quite a bit over the years about about hollywood, particularly the movie industry. This book is a really wonderful tour of modern tevision and how it evolved into a medium for deep, provocative, original storytelling. Weve all become familiar with this term that were that were living through the golden age of tv with these shows like mad men and breaking bad and succession. And the list goes on and on. What made you want to tackle this subject now . And also with so much ambition and sweep, this is a book that spans several decades. Well, basically, because, you know, movies have declined. You know, theyve become you know, theyve become a monoculture here of superheroes. You know, basically through marvel, somewhat through dc and there was it just seemed to me that there was less and less interesting work being done in the movies. And a lot of the talent
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Was a true threat. We have a crew watching this as soon as we have an update we will bring it to you right here. Tsa in denver olice investigating something suspicious on a dia xray. Around 7 00 this evening tsa flagged denver police. Two hours that we got the all clear. And unbelievable scene, four cars crashed. The force roof off of one car. Police tell us there are serious injuries. One of the drivers may have gotten out and run off. I know this is not what you are expecting to see right now but we want to tell you about snow in the high country. Snow fell for a couple hours this afternoon near the loveland ski area. Those of you nederland might changes that could mess with your drive to work and school in the morning. A huge temperature contrast 35 at cheyenne, 53 in denver. Below freezing toward casper. You might imagine a front, a cold front moved through the area. As it pushes south a pretty good band of rain and snow to the north of us will move to the denver area and off to th
Reporter on this balmy fall sunday elizabeth fire crews worked to keep up aging equipment. Working well past the traditional fire season. The fire comes at any time of the year. Reporter because of us because of that elizabeth fires are coming to voters in three weeks asking for an extension for new fire and other equipment. What we are going to ask voters to do is not raise taxes, but allow us to continue a tax initiative. Reporter the chief says his crew responded to a wildfires last week alone. I believe everyone was threatening homes at some point. Homes are being built into these areas and it is in a much freeman fire continues to rage. Homeowners grateful for firefighter efforts. I want to commend the firefighters. They did a fantastic job. Reporter in fact, down in elizabeth tonight there is a fire alert in effect until 9 pm and along much of the front range. There is a red flag warning or a high wind warning. There are also concerns over the lantern festival at the Colorado Nat