i got the best product, but could stand a little more territory. - of teachers, of politicians just make the entire city into the character itself? - you follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. but you start to follow the money, and you don t know where the [bleep] it s gonna take you. - the wire broke down systemic racism and the cycle of poverty like no other television show had. - come on. get up. it s a school day. y all are gonna be late. - it wasn t just about, hey, look at these black kids chilling drugs on the street. you were in the apartment with them where they had no parents, where they were taking care of their siblings, where they were trying to scrounge for food. - where s your book bag? - teacher didn t give no homework. - so you start to get a much more realistic three-dimensional picture of what poverty looks like in a city. [sirens blaring] - one of the things about the wire that was so interesting is it didn t rely on
- it s classic sci-fi in that it s about using the robots and the spaceships and the clones to comment on the world we live in right now. - i can t die. when this body s destroyed, my memory, my consciousness, will be transmitted to a new one. - the cylons look and act and feel just like humans, and by time you get to the middle of battlestar galactica, you don t really know who you re rooting for anymore. - what other secrets are rattling around inside that mechanical brain? - it was like sort of the west wing in space. - madame president, without you, we wouldn t have made it. - it was just a very rich world. it felt lived in, it felt real, and the stakes could not have been higher. - i think lost is the first huge cinematic tv show i saw. i remember gathering at a friend s house to watch,
really, really big, pretend to like your taste in music, let you eat the last piece of cheesecake, hold a radio over my head outside your window, unfortunate way that makes me hate you, love you. so pick me. choose me. love me. - and in shonda s case, it s fantastic, because finally a woman, finally a person of color is doing this. - anything that opens doors for more women and more african-americans and more diverse casting and more diverse crew is a good thing. - shonda stood up and went, yes, i am gonna be a show-runner, and i m gonna be a juggernaut. - ten bucks says he messes up the mcbird. - 15 says he cries. - i ll put 20 on a total meltdown. - 50 says he pulls the whole thing off. that s one of us down there the first one of us. where s your loyalty? - above and beyond the cultural aspect,
- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don t know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. - it is game day, people, and i have never felt this kind of electricity, not in years. this town of dillon, texas, is on fire. - i loved friday night lights. i grew up in colorado. it s set in texas, but i knew every single person who was on that show, and they weren t on the air anyplace else. - amen. all: amen. - clear eyes, full hearts. all: can t lose. - let s get them. [all cheering] - the pilot of friday night lights is one of the best pilots of any television show ever. you re introduced almost instantly to the fact that jason street is the greatest quarterback that dillon high school as ever had.
- the network was saying, we don t think we can put simon on the promos. - no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. - he ll scare little girls and we think that s our audience. - that s one of the worst auditions i ve ever heard in my life. - i m like, well, that s the whole show, so, you know, without him, it s not gonna work, and it was a big fight internally. and of course we got him on, and of course that is what sparked the show. [cheers and applause] - well, here they are. the judges have made their choices. now, america, it s all up to you. - american idol reunited the family audience in front of the tv. - r-e-s-p-e-c-t find out what it means to me - 9-year-olds to 90-year-olds could root for somebody on american idol. it s not like it hadn t been done before, but the way that the producers of these shows could manipulate drama, the way they could find stories, that was the core of making those shows successful. - this is the weakest romance i ve ever seen. thi