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work when it was bending a genre. take something that s familiar 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 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 s so much we can do in terms of language, in terms of violence, in terms of sex. to
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 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 s so much we can do in terms of language, in terms of violence, in terms of sex. to a large degree, a lot of executives were just sanding off the edges of what was interesting. i think hbo is looking at the world and going, okay, how can we matter? for quite a long time, movies and boxing were the bread and butter of hbo. people watch a show because you re partly a [ bleep ]. i think what we learned through shows like the larry sanders show or oz is that we could do serious television. there s somethin
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were also very afraid of him. and his sexuality was not necessarily weaponized against him. and for me, i didn t see black gangsters portrayed that way a lot. no matter what we call heroin, it s going to get sold. [ bleep ] is strong, we re going to sell [ bleep ]. if it s weak, we re going to sell twice as much. you know why. because a fiend is going to chase that [ bleep ] no matter what. is it the greatest tv show of all time? people always argue about that. it s the greatest tv show to have black people on it ever. what s the highest compliment someone could pay you about the show? you didn t lie. that would be it. you didn t cheat. good night, stars. good night, stars. good night po-pos. at the time, hbo was in about 33 million homes. fx was going to 110 million homes. that s a lot of people who would like programming like this who