shows that didn t explode in the ratings, but were influential to others. homicide is one of them. shell me with questions all night i m living in a danger zone homicide: life on the street was innovative in terms of style. it used music in ways that advanced the narrative and also used feature film directors that brought a look and style to the show that really stood out on television. tears coming out of your eyes. ain t no tears coming from my eyes. those eyes are brimming with tears. they had so many african american characters in the cast that on several occasions they were the only people on camera interacting with one another. and that sounds like, so, but as late as the 90s, that wasn t done on television. when a cop shoots somebody, he stands by. he picks up the radio mike and calls it in. he stands by the body. if not, cops are no better than anybody else. in the 90s, television was
on network television? or any kind of television? it s a miracle. south park is a miracle. [ applause ] the early 90s, the hbo shows start to kind of come into their own. have i always had these breasts? a lot of people want freedom, they don t want to go back to the networks which are saying you could come to us, you ll make more money, but you ll also have content restrictive, go to cable and have no restrictions. not as much money, but freedom of expression. which almost everybody who works in these mediums wants. some of the content truly was, you can t get this anywhere else. fantasy maker is the only limit on the kind of fantasies is people s imagination.
a new era is re-examining the way they do business. new owners spent billions buying network s recently, ge buying nbc, capital cities, abc, and lows brothers buying cbs and all of them want their money s worth. we ll now have the strongest network. we ll have a stronger defense piece. this is going to be one dynamite company. there s a danger that news will be mixed up with the rest of television and considered just another profit. late 1920s, to early 1930s, to the 1980s, the sense was if some of the broadcasting time took public service, 1990s, journalism in the country changed a great deal. you couldn t talk about public service.
sopranos came on tv and it really showed us the future whether we realized that was going to be the future of television or not. this husband of yours, carmella, how much we love him. he s the best. like a father to me. just make sure nothing happens to him. that character in that show was a great inspiration to a great many shows that came after it including one that i worked on. you know what i want, tony? i want those kids to have a father. they got one, this one, me. tony soprano. and all that comes with it. oh, you prick. some of my favorite shows of all time aired in that decade and everybody was watching them. there was still that communal sense from the earlier decades of tv but it was being applied to shows that were reaching higher a fther, and they were great. because there was so many channels and because so much
south park is a miracle. [ cheers and applause ] t earl 90s the hbo shows start to come into their own. now, then, have i always had these breasts? [ laughter ] a lot of people want freedom, they don t want to go back to the networks, which are saying you can come to us when you ll make more money, but you ll also have content restricted. you can go to cable and have no restrictions. not make as much money but have freedom of expression. almost everybody who works in this medium that s what they want. a lot of this truly you can t get anywhere else. the kind of fantasies is people s imagination. hbo turned to people who said, i can t do that on television, but you can do it on hbo. white people don t trust black people.