free text l0 to three-to-one, three-to-one today, i hanako montgomery in tokyo and this jensen: it s a time of enormous turmoil. shut up in here. the 60s are over dad. durham: here s michael at the foul line, a shot on ehlo. -good! -yeah! ha-ha! turner: we intend to cover all the news all the time. we won t be signing off until the world ends. isn t that special? any tool for human expression will bring out the best and the worst in us, and television has been that. they don t pay me enough to deal with animals like this. people are no longer embarrassed to admit they watch television. we have seen the news and it is us. clark: slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! [ cheers and applause ] auletta: as you begin the 80s in the television world, the landscape was, on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people were watching only one of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it.
for the most annoying show, this might win as well. no, what some people perceive as annoying has nothing to do with yuppie. i think yuppie is a word made up by demographers and advertisers to sell soap. i don t think it has anything to do with what the show is. thirtysomething was not a giant hit. but it was a niche hit. it attracted an enormously upscale group of advertisers. shales: the network cared who was watching, not how many were watching. and that was more and more catching on in the 80s. sifuentes: the prosecution will ask you that you look to the law and this you must do. but i ask of you that you look to your hearts as well. thank you. holmes: l.a. law was partly a classic lawyer show. but it was intertwined with their personal lives and different lawyers who were sleeping together and trying to get ahead. yost: the reality level on that show was like a foot or two off the ground. and you were willing to go with that because it was a whole new spin on a law show.
to be a grownup for just an hour. in the beginning, there was talk of this being the yuppie show and you mentioned it tonight. you-you said that if there were a category for the most annoying show, this might win as well. no, what some people perceive as annoying has nothing to do with yuppie. i think yuppie is a word made up by demographers and advertisers to sell soap. i don t think it has anything to do with what the show is. thirtysomething was not a giant hit. but it was a niche hit. it attracted an enormously upscale group of advertisers. shales: the network cared who was watching, not how many were watching. and that was more and more catching on in the 80s. sifuentes: the prosecution will ask you that you look to the law and this you must do. but i ask of you that you look to your hearts as well. thank you. holmes: l.a. law was partly a classic lawyer show. but it was intertwined with their personal lives and different lawyers who were sleeping together and trying to get
having kids and who was gonna go back to work and some of these issues that hadn t been talked about a whole lot, it was important to people. i was so looking forward i was so looking forward to doing this, to be a grownup for just an hour. in the beginning, there was talk of this being the yuppie show, and you mentioned it tonight. you said that if there were a category for the most annoying show, this might win as well. no, what some people perceive as annoying has nothing to do with yuppie. i think yuppie is a word made up by demographers and advertisers to sell soap. i don t think it has anything to do with what the show is. thirtysomething was not a giant hit. but it was a niche hit. it attracted an enormously upscale group of advertisers. the network cared who was watching, not how many were watching. and that was more and more
by demographers and advertisers to sell soap. it doesn t have anything to do with what the show is. 30 something was not a giant hit, but it was a niche hit. it attracted an enormously upscale group of advertisers. the network cared who was watching, not how many were watching. and that was more and more catching on in the 80s. the prosecution will ask you that you look to the law, and this you must do. but i ask of you that you look to your hearts as well. thank you. l.a. law was partly a classic lawyer show. but it was intertwined with their personal lives and different lawyers who were sleeping together and trying to get ahead. the reality level on that show was like a foot or two off the ground. and you re willing to go with that because it was a whole new spin on a law show. uh-uh, tell the truth. if you had to do it all over again and she walked into your office and she said, take my case, would you?