Embarrass today admit they watch television. We have seen the news and it is us. Slowly but surely the 1970s are disappearing. The 1980s will be upon us. What a decade it is coming up. Happy new year as you begin the 80s in the television world, the landscape was on any given evening nine out of ten people were watching one of three networks. More than 30 Million People are addicted to it. What is it . Primetime pot boilers like dallas. It will ruin the ewing family name. A thought like that never crossed my mind. Brother or no brother dallas captivated america for 13 years. Dallas is rooted in the 1970s and one of the crazy things is this character j. R. Ewing as a pop phenomenon. Tell me, j. R. , what slut are you staying with tonight . What difference does it make . Any of them have to be more interesting than the slut i am looking at now. At this point so many people were watching television that you could do something unexpected that it would become news overnight. The National Obsession in 1980 around who shot j. R. Its hard to imagine how obsessed we all were with that question. It was about as much of a cliffhanger as you could get. Who did shoot j. R. . The people who produced that program will keep us in suspense as long as they can. We broke for the summer and then coincidentally the actors went on strike. It delayed the resolution and it started to percolate through the world. I went to england that summer and thats all they were talking about. We know you couldnt die. I could. I could die, but the show would come back. I guess if you dont know by now who shot j. R. , you probably dont care. But 82 million americans watched the touted show. It could be the most watched Television Show ever. It gathers everybody around the electronic fireplace that is now the television set. It transcends in popularity every other american statement about war. And something happened today at Army Surgical center 4077. It would draw world press. The end of the korean war, the Television Version mash. It has been an honor and privilege to work with you. I am proud to have worked with you. It was a Landmark Time where shows watched in the 70s and into the 80s like mash had their final episode and we were all sad to see them go. I am going to miss you, a lot. All over the Country Armys of vans crowded around Television Sets to watch the final episode and wish the show farewell. It was unprecedented. 123 Million People watched one Television Program at the same time. I really should be allowed to go home. There is nothing wrong with me. When we ended the show, we got telegrams of congratulations from Henry Kissinger and ronald reagan. The size of the response and the emotional nature of the response was difficult for us to understand. Who shot j. R. And the last episode of mash were the last call for the precable world of television. They are the last time that that huge audience will all turn up for one event. Thats it. Lets roll. Lets be careful. Dispatch, 911. When quality does emerge, the phrase too good for tv is often heard. One reason Network Offering that is said to hear that phrase is him stre Hill Street Blues. We had all watched and had that moment that we were very enamored of. The minute you looked at it, it looked different. It had a mood to it. You could also smell the stale coffee. We didnt want to do a standard cop show where you got a crime and two cops and you go out and catch the bad guy and sweat him and he confesses and thats it. Cops had personal lives that impact their behavior in profound ways. Is he here or in jail . We are working on it. How is this for logic, if hes not here and not in jail, hes lost. Never in my life have i listened to so much incompetency. It would play out in a way for the entire series. Nobody had done that in an hour long dramatic show. I missed you. I had to find that out. Come home. I think in the past people had watched television passively. One thing i think we did set out to be were provocateurs. What the hell is the matter with you, man . They dont pay me enough to deal with things like this. It was a white that pulled the trigger, not a black. They could accept characters being deeply flawed even though they were in uniform. I thought that was important. We wanted to make a show that made you participate, made you pay attention. I think that worked pretty well. And the winner is Hill Street Blues. It got 21 nominations and we went on to win eight emmys and it put us on the map. Programming chief of one of the Networks Said about shows like hill street was what americans want is a cheeseburger and you are trying to give them a french delicacy. Your job is to keep shoving it down their throat until they say that doesnt taste bad and may order it themselves if they go to a restaurant. And everything after. You saw shows like st. Elsewhere. They call this place st. Elsewhere, a place you wouldnt want to send your motherinlaw. You are giving your patients the wrong antibiotics. It is the worst progress notes. Doctor you are needed right away. I am sorry. St. Elsewhere broke every rule and then built some new rules. They need a pint of blood. The tcell count was off. Tragic things would happen to these characters. There was tragic thinj real hea. St. Elsewhere challenged people, channeled R Challenglle actor much less as an audience. Whether they were dealing with aids or having one of their doctors raped in a prison. St. Elsewhere was run by people trying to stretch the medium. In the 80s Television Producers were encouraged to stretch the medium. Hope is the light in all of us that cannot be extinguished. To stir that fire, University Of Phoenix is awarding up to one Million Dollars in scholarships through this month. See what scholarship you qualify for at phoenix. Edu. Good morning, mr. Sun. Good morning, blair. [ chuckles ] whoo. Im gonna grow big and strong. Yes, you are. Im gonna get this place all clean. Ill give you a hand. And im gonna put lisa on crutches wait, what . Said shes gonna need crutches. She fell pretty hard. You might want to clean that up, girl. Excuse us. When owning a Small Business gets real, progressive helps protect what you built with customizable coverage. And im gonna eh, eh, eh. Donny, no. Oh. You power through chronic migraine 15 or more headache days a month,. Each lasting 4 hours or more. Botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine. So, if you havent tried botox® for your chronic migraine,. Check with your doctor if botox® is right for you, and if samples are available. Effects of botox® may spread hours to weeks after injection. Causing serious symptoms. Alert your doctor right away, as difficulty swallowing,. Speaking, breathing, eye problems, or muscle weakness. Can be signs of a lifethreatening condition. Side effects may include allergic reactions. Neck and injection site pain. Fatigue, and headache. Dont receive botox® if theres a skin infection. Tell your doctor your medical history, muscle or nerve conditions. And medications, including botulinum toxins, as these may increase the risk of serious side effects. 95 of patients may pay as little as zero dollars for botox®. So, text to see how you can save. Botox® has been preventing headaches and migraines before they even start for 10 years. So, ask your doctor about botox® today. A lot of people used to say, i was there. Now people say, they watch it on television. A lot of excitement connected to sports in the 80s. You used to have to depend on the five minutes at the end of your local newscast. There just hadnt been enough. Give us a whole network of sports. Theres just one place you need to go for all the names and games making sports news. Espn sportscenter. What happened in the 1980s is sports becomes a tv show. And what are tv shows built around . Characters. You cant be serious, man. You cannot be serious you got the absolute mcenroe, the perfect villain. The new yorker that people loved to hate. The cool swede never giving any emotion away. What tennis really wants is to get its two best players playing over and over again in the final. Whether they are john mcenroe and bjorn borg or Chris Everett and navratilova. Thats what we want to turn in over and over. Three match points to martina navratilova. This man has a smile that lights up a Television Screen from here to bangor, maine. And that there is magic johnson, this urban kid from michigan and larry bird, this guy who worked carrying trash. One plays for the lakers. The other plays for the boston celtics. Its a great story. Lakers had several chances. Heres larry bird. Magic johnson leads the attack. Look at that pass. Oh, whats a show oh, what a show when the championship games are in primetime and people are paying attention to that, television feeds into those rivalries and makes them bigger than theyve ever been before. Primitive skill. Theyre just as good as dead. Every mike tyson fight was an event. Every fight was like an ax murder. When he fought michael spinks. The energy, you could just feel it on tv. Tyson was made for tv because there was drama. Not a lot of Junior High School kids can dunk. Especially at everybody tries. I think that he is starting to transcend his sport that hes becoming a public figure. Michael jordan becomes the model every other athlete wants to shoot for. They want to be a brand. And thats what television does for these athletes. Turns them into worldwide iconic brands. The Inbounds Pass comes in to jordan. Michael at the foul line. Good the bulls win. Athletes in the 80s became part of an Ongoing Group of people we cared about. We had an enormous pentup demand for sports and the 80s began to provide. Cable television is continuing to grow. Its estimate tuesday will grow into 1 million more u. S. Households this year. With Cable Television offering an array of different channel choices, the audience bifurcated. Thats an earthquake. I want my mtv I Want My Mtv I Want My Mtv a new concept is born. The best of tv combined with the best of radio. This is it. Welcome to mtv music television. The worlds first 24hour stereo video music channel. Music television, what a concept. Mtv was, pow, in your face. You were not going to turn us off. Mtv did nothing but play current music videos all day long. So let me get this straight. You turn on the tv, and its like the radio . Music will continue nonstop on mtv music televisions newest component of your stereo system. When mtv launched a generation was launched. 18 to 24yearolds were saying, I Want My Mtv. I want my mtv videos. I want my mtv fashion. Yo. Mtv was the First Network really focused on the youth market. And becomes hugely influential because they understand each other. The audience and the network. Mtv had a giant impact. Visually and musically on every part of the tv culture that came next. Freeze, miami vice. Friday nights on nbc are different this season thanks to miami vice. Its a show with an old theme but a lot of new twists. Described by one critic as containing flashes of brilliance, shot entirely on location in south miami, the story centers around two undercover vice cops. I dont know how this is going to work, tubbs. I mean, not exactly up my alley style and personawise. Heaven knows im no box of candy. Television very much was the small screen. It was interesting about tonys Pilot Screen Play for miami vice. It was not that. Very much the approach was, okay, they call this a Television Series. But were going to make onehour movies every single week. Here we go. Stand by. Action. Police. Just describing the show as a new wave cop show. Its a cop show for the 80s. We use a lot of mtv images and rock music to help describe the mood and feeling of our show. In a lot of ways you dont get miami vice without mtv because in a lot of ways miami vice was a long video. The music was such a big part of that show. There was an allure to using great music that everybody was listening to as opposed to the routine kind of tv scoring of that period. I can feeling coming in the air it was only not afraid to let long scenes play out. It would drag a car going from point a to point b could be a fourminute phil collins song. And it was. Being able to take a Television Series like miami vice and lets rock n roll with this until somebody says stop or are you guys crazy, you cant do that . And nobody ever did. Freeze police. Neighbor 1 allez sound from wind chimes neighbor 2 laughing at least geico makes bundling our home and Car Insurance easy. Which helps us save even more. 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Time and time again, if you Study Television history, just when someone is counting a forum out, thats exactly the form of programming thats leads to the next big hit. 1984 the cosby show comes on. Bill cosby is not new to tv but the cosby show is different. Stands apart from Everything Else hes done. I wanted my scrambled. Coming up. They talked about parenting. Before that, the kid were cool and the parents were idiots. Cosby says the parents are in charge and that was something new. Instead of acting disappointed because im not like you, maybe you can just accept who i am and love me anyway because im your son. Thats the dumbest thing ive ever heard in my life it helps the casting a lot in television. The kids were just great. If you were the last person on this earth, i still wouldnt tell you. You have to tell me what you did. Just tell me whats theyre going to do to you. Unlike every other show on tv, its showing an upper middle class black family. This wasnt all in the family. They werent tackling deep issues but that was okay. The mere fact they existed was a deep issue. The decade was waiting for something real. In other words, unless its real, it doesnt seem like it moves anybody. If someone is feeling something, you get to the heart and the mind. If you can hit the hearts and minds, youve got yourself a hit. How was school . School . Dear, i brought home two children that may or may not be ours. The cosby show brought this tremendous audience to nbc. And that was a bridge to us. Our ratings went way up. Sometimes you want to go where Everybody Knows your name even the theme song to cheers puts you in a good mood. Hello, everybody. Whats shaking, norm . By the end of the cheers pilot, not only did you know who everybody was, but you wanted to come back and see what was going to happen. Its like all you have to do is watch it once. Youre going to love these people. These are universal characters, and the humor worked on so many levels. I was up until 2 00 in the morning finishing off kierkegaard. I hope he thanked you for it. You have to create a community that people are identifying with. And cheers gives you that community. Ive always wanted to skydive. Ive just never had the guts. What did it feel like . I imagine a lot like sex. I have to imagine what sex is like. But i have plenty of sex. And plenty of this, too. Why dont you just get off my back, too. In the First Episode, there was a rather passionate annoyance. Something is going on here. A really intelligent woman would see your line of bs a mile away. I never met an intelligent woman that i would want to date. On behalf of the intelligent women around the world, may i just say, phew. You saw what ted and shelly had together. We said, oh, no. Weve got to do this relationship. Ted and i understood what they were writing right away. If youll admit that you are carrying a little torch for me, ill admit that im carrying a little one for you. Oh, i am carrying a little torch for you. Well, im not carrying one for you. Diane knew how to tease sam. Sam knew how to tease diane, and i guess we know how to tease the audience. Incredible chemistry between the two of them ignited the show. Thats whats drove the show for the first five years. Whats the matter . Im devastated. I need something brutal to blast me into sweet oblivion. How about a boilermaker . Make it a mimosa. We had the luck to be able to rotate cast and every time we put somebody in, they were explosions. There was something very special about that setting, those characters that i never got tired of writing that show. Sophisticated surveys, telephonic samplings, test audiences. All of those help to separate winners from losers and make midcourse corrections. You cant cut all comedies from the same cookie cutters. All you can hope is every night turns out like thursday. Yo, angela next. How rude. Quick, ill give him that. All television and, oh, maybe sitcoms are alive again. And thats all that it took. It took one success. A few years from now, something new may tempt the people that pick what we see. Its save whatever gets hot for a season or two those who create Good Television comedy will be laughing all the way to the bank. Like 0 copays on virtual visits. Wow uhhuh 0 copays on primary care visits and lab tests. Wow uhhuh plus, 0 copays on hundreds of prescription drugs. Wow uhhuh Unitedhealthcare Medicare advantage plans. Including the only plans with the aarp name. Most plans have a 0 premium. Its time to take advantage. Wow this is my last broadcast as the anchorman of the cbs evening news. For me its a moment for which i long have planned but which nevertheless comes with some sadness. For almost two decades, after all, weve been meeting like this in the evenings, and ill miss that. And thats the way it is, friday, march 6th, 1981. Ill be away on assignment and dan rather will be sitting in here for the next few years. Good night. Uncle walter had dominated, certainly cbs, but in a way, the country. People used to say he was the most trusted man in the country. Once Walter Cronkite retires, all three Network News Anchors within a couple of years switch over to a new generation. The 80s may have been the last gasp where people liked and trusted the media. Nuclear arms and how to prevent Global Destruction expected to be the major topic of president reagans News Conference tonight. That conference will be nationally televised within the hour. Leslie stahl is at the white house. The white house is hoping in the 80s, women came into the newsroom. When i first joined, it was 72. There are very few. By the 80s, there were more and more. The decade of the 80s was still a time of sink or swim. You had to be resilient in your own way to survive in a period when you were going up against a lot of people who still didnt think women had what it took. These are some of the most famous faces in broadcasting. All of them happen to be women. The best producers, im going to get fired the best producers at cbs news are women. And theyre at the level of taking hold and making decisions about individual pieces. They are not yet Executive Producers of all the news shows. But they will be. The past 24 hours, Christine Craft has taken her cause to many of the nations news and talk programs. I didnt set out to be joan of ark, but i think what happened to me deserves some attention. Reporter Christine Craft had a very successful career but there she was in her late 30s and the tv station said to her, were taking you off the air because youve gotten older and you arent as attractive as you once were, which was outrageous. She decides to make an issue of it. She filed a lawsuit and it became a Huge National topic of discussion. A jury said she got a raw deal because she is a woman. Women in Television News everywhere were asked, what do you think about Christine Craft. Unfortunately in recent years the emphasis has been on physical appearance and to the extent this decision helped swing the emphasis back to substance and to good journalism. I think weve got something to be happy about. It was important to make the point that what mattered was, whats kind of reporter are you . It took the Christine Craft incident, i think, to bring that conversation out into the open. This coming sunday, a new Television Network opens for business. Cnn. Cable news network. You are throwing all the dice on this one. Why not . Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Well, on that original point, mr. Turner, thank you very much, indeed. I wanted to see what was going on in the world. And it was no way that you could do it watching regular television stations. News only comes on at 6 00 and 10 00. But if there was news on 24 hours, people could watch it any time. We decided on june 1 and barring Satellite Problems in the future, we wont be signing off until the world ends. It was widely believed it was a fools errand. How could this possibly find an audience . Well, he did. Camera three. Good evening. Im david walker. Im lois harp. Television news before this was stuff that had already happened. For the first time, cnn brought the world to people in realtime. Cnn, the worlds most important network. I didnt do Cable News Network because somebody told me it couldnt be done. I figured it was a very viable concept, and i went ahead and did it. It was after we announced we were going to do it that the detractors showed up. Is Cable News Network just going to be a new means of delivering the same kind of fare . No. It already does provide different fare. Cable news network is a perfect and maybe the best example of that. People love news. And we had lots of it. And the other guys had not very much. So choice and quantity won out. New york city, hello. The major catastrophe in americas space program. I am lou dobbs along with myron kandel. Jessica mcclure trapped for almost three days in a dry artesian well. The iron curtain between east germany and west berlin has come tumbling down. Im pat buchanan, the conservative on crossfire. The American People appreciated the new television. They certainly came to cnn in droves. Mr. Gorbachev and i both agree on the desirability of freer and more extensive personal contact between the peoples of the soviet union and the United States. We began to realize that the best way to get a message to a foreign leader was to have the president go in the rose garden and make a statement. Because everybody was watching cnn. Cnn was a breakthrough. It changed the whole world. It changed quickly. The network news business. That business that we werent the only ones. And it was hard. Its hard to be on the top little perch and have to come down off it. A special segment tonight, the network news. The first in a twopart series on the profound changes taking place in Television News. Changes being brought about by business, competition and technology. There were a variety of reasons why people who worked at the Broadcast Networks were freaked out in 1980s. One of them was cnn. And the rise of cable. Another was being taken over by foreign entities in corporate america. New owners spend billions buying the networks recently, and all of them want their moneys worth. People began to find out that news could be a profit center. And that focused a lot of attention on us. A lot from people in wall street, for instance. If you think about the News Divisions of cbs, nbc and abc, they were part of a really proud tradition. A journalistic tradition that really matters. We serve the public. This is not about profit and loss. The people who worked at those News Stations were very freaked out by what it meant they were now owned by these larger corporate entities. The Television News isnt profitable at some point there wont be any more Television News on the networks. I worry about people only worried about money and power getting a hold of television. It has higher purposes than that. We have seen the news, and it is us. Each lasting 4 hours or more. Botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine. So, if you havent tried botox® for your chronic migraine,. Check with your doctor if botox® is right for you, and if samples are available. Effects of botox® may spread hours to weeks after injection. Causing serious symptoms. Alert your doctor right away, as difficulty swallowing,. Speaking, breathing, eye problems, or muscle weakness. Can be signs of a lifethreatening condition. Side effects may include allergic reactions. Neck and injection site pain. Fatigue, and headache. 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It seems to be an area almost impossible to break through. I think the 80s were the era when women were being looked at. With a little skepticism, but definitely with more acceptability. You could see the door opening. But it wasnt wide open. Cagney and lacey was huge. That there would be two women and they had a serious job and they solved crimes and were out on the streets and tough. That was emblematic or out in front of what was happening in the country. So were a terrific team. By that point, hundreds of buddy cop shows. These buddies were women. It had never been done before. I didnt go after this job because i couldnt find Anything Else. All right. I did not come here because i needed some kind of work to help pay the orthodontist. This means something to me. What the hell are we talking about here . We didnt even realize this was going to be such a big deal. And strangely, all these guys would say to us, well, yeah. I mean, its a good script, but who is going to save them in the end . Come on. Were getting out of here. You dont take one more step. Do you understand me . Sergeant nelson, you have until 8 00 tomorrow morning to turn yourself in. If you dont, i will. It was the time where you really saw an emergence of women on television who were not necessarily just 20 and blond and had a small role. But women who had substantial roles. Thank you for being a friend traveled down the road and back again it was unpredictable that an audience, a young audience, a not so young audience and lots in between, could relate to those older ladies. Ma, if you couldnt see, why didnt you call me to come get you . I tried to. Every time i put in a dime and dialed, a condom popped out. I got five in my pocket. Here, dorothy. A lifetime supply. She was recently named as one of televisions most gifted creative writers. When you look back at the past women role models on tv, its easy to see susan harris impact. Susan harris was the greatest writer of her generation at that time, singularly. So all credit to her for coming up with so many iterations of something so amazing. Do you think there is a womans voice as a writer . Womans voice . They speak higher, softer . I should know not to ask that of a writer. Yes, of course, theres a womans voice. Women have a different perspective. Women laugh at different things. So, yes, there very definitely is a womans voice. Oh, do you know how many problems we have solved over a cheesecake at this Kitchen Table . No, dorothy. Exactly how many. 147, blanche. Cutthroat primetime time this fall as some 23 new shows compete in one of the hottest ratings races in years. Here is one that will be a hit just about for everybody. Designing women. Suzanne, if sex were a fast food, there would be an arch over your bed. Linda bloodworth created one of the funniest shows in designing women. They were a Different Group of women than you ever saw on television. They were feisty, sexy and lindas voice came through shining. Men can get away with anything. I mean, look at ragans neck. He gets away down to here. If nancy had that neck, they would be putting her in a nursing home for turkeys. Theyve given me this 23 minutes to address whatever topic i want and its such a privilege. Its kind of thrilling to have that every week. I would be lying if i said i didnt put my opinions in this show. Excuse me, you lovely ladies look like youre in need of a little male companionship. Trust me when i tell you you have completely misassessed the situation at this table. I am a woman and i am a writer, but i dont really enjoy being called a womans writer. I think labels are harmful for us. With murphy brown, just about everything about that program felt new. The Civil Rights Movement and the Womans Movement had just begun to sort of be reflected in the programming that you saw in television in the 80s. Murphy, you know the club is for men only. 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Ive been on with you for a long time. Its been some time. Youve been busy with other things. The tide is starting to turn in terms of where Late Night Television is going to go, but johnny is kind of holding out. He was not necessarily of his time in the 80s, but he did sustain a certain timelessness. Hes the king. On your chair. Hes all right. Hes just playing. Playing . [ bleep ]. My next guest not only has a College Degree but he also has a High School Degree as well. Hes heissed the tonight show practically as often as Johnny Carson and now he has his daily show weekday mornings at 10 on abc. What youre witnessing here is a funfilled Surprise Turning into an incredible screwup here. David letterman originally had a one hour daytime show and nbc after like 13 weeks decided to cancel. Today is our last show on the air. Monday las vegas boo. Have these people been frisked. It was a dismal failure in terms of the ratings but not in terms of introducing us to letter man. David, thank you for being with us tonight. Thank you very much for having me. I appreciate it. And in spite of all this nonsense that goes on around the background, stay with us. Dont give up. Stay with us here in new york. Dave is back in new york. Going to host a late night Television Program that premiers monday night. What are critics likely to say Tuesday Morning . I dont much care because i found a way to deal with it, pills and whisky. Youre on. Oh, im on. Enjoying listening to you snort. They gave him the Late Night Show after the tonight show. At the time people thought whos going to watch television at 12 30 at night. Whos up . Ill tell you whos up. College people. Is it going well . I think this guy needs a little support. David letterman. He was antiestablishment. He was thumbing his nose to any existing social structures. Neighbors. Ill get rid of them. Hey. Excuse me. Keep it moving. He kind of spoofed the whole notion of talk shows. Its the late night guest cam. Please say hello to tom hanks. Here he is. No one could go on the David Letterman show and try to steer it towards a Point Of View or push something. He just wouldnt stand for it. Youre on to do one thing, one thing only, be as funny as the rest of the show. We could get in a two shot here. We could send the crew home, couldnt we . As a comedian, you want the biggest audience that you can get. For dave, he knew a lot of things that he would do and he didnt care. He wanted his thumb print out there and thats the most important thing. Its time for small town news. Paul. Excuse me, paul, do you have any accompaniying music here for smalltown news . Paul shaver, ladies and gentlemen. The show making fun of itself and turning itself inside out in that way. Something kind of new. Tonight we look like guys that youd see hanging around together. Absolutely. Would you like to hang around with me. Nope. Ill say it again. This is the stupidest show that i ever i thought i would never want to do this show with you. Now why . Because you thought i was a [ bleep ]. Theres one rule i keep trying to abide by and unfortunately i only get to it about 12 of the time. That is, its only television. Were not doing cancer research. A 40 year odd history of Commercial Broadcasting has taught us one thing, theres nothing sacred about television. Steven is upstairs. Hey, dave, i was just curious, is there any way i can get mtv steve, thats just a monitor and all you can get on that is our show. Oh, thats okay. There was a degree of cynicism that was needed in the art form at that time, and its a cynicism that just became common sense after a while because it never got old. I watched Johnny Carson, and you are no Johnny Carson. Welcome the great white north. Im bob mckenzie. We got a big show. There was a Second City Company and toronto company. The toronto one is the one that fueled the sc tv series which was originally syndicated and got to the states that way. Hey hell, hell, thank you for that marvelous recession. I want to thank my supporters over there in the caesarian section. Its healthy to be an outsider as a comedian and canadians are always outsiders but theyre looking at the other culture which is right next door to them. I have a few moments. I want to bury your children. It was the type of comedy that had only been accessible if you could have gotten into the improv clubs. I have never seen anything like second city tv. James bridge man, park dale. Sorry. It was far more conceptual in its humor because it didnt have to be performed in front of an audience and there was also just the idea that it was this sort of low rent thing. It was this sort of by the seat of their pants kind of operation that gave it an authenticity now that our programming day has been extended where do you want me to put the kielbasa. Put it in the fridge, butch. You were rooting for the show. The characters they created. Something you got behind. Whereas snl right from the gate and through the 80s was this big enterprise. After five golden years, lauren decided to leave, and so did those close to him, including me, al frank. So nbc had to pick a new producer. Now most knowledgeable people, as you might imagine, hoped it would be me, al frank. Well, it was a real question of whether Saturday Night Live would continue at all, whether it would just die. Chris hasnt been overly kind. Zpl yeah, i read that stuff. Saturday night live, saturday night jazz. Oh, geez. My favorite noyes, vile from the audience. Thats funny. We were having a hard time. Then came eddie murphy. There was buzz about him so you tuned in and there was this kind of explosion of talent in front of your eyes. It really kind of rejuvenated the show. Im gumby, baby. You dont talk to me that way. After a while the show regained its status and clout and became more of an institution. Hey, bob. Penis looks great today. Threw. Youll never work in this town again. Dont leave me hanging by a thread. Let me know where i stand. We were worried because we had a new cast. You guys have been so nice to us during our stay. Isnt that special. We just want to pav you off. A lot of things they did on Saturday Night Live they couldnt do on a sitcom. The humor was more daringsatire let me just sum up, on track, stay the course, a thousand points of light. Stay the course. Governor dukakis rebuttal. I cant believe im losing to this guy. Ill get it. Its gary shanle show. People were taking all the old principles of comedy and trying to turn them into something new. We spent years watching sitcoms, dramas, we knew them by heart. If somebody played on it and parodied it i appreciate you coming in under these conditions, lewis. You want to hold the credits. You screwed that up because youre late. The Gary Shandling show was aware it was a situation comedy. It highlighted the cliches in funny ways. Are you looking into the camera . Yeah. I didnt. Dont. You dont come in here and look at the camera. I didnt. Ill bop you. I will. If i see a tape of this show and youre looking into the well, its about that time. Pee wees play house on cbs. Adults could watch and wink at each other is very clever. Good morning. Whats todays pick . The word is . Good it was a show certainly for kids and it was for stoned baby boomers who were totally wasted on saturday morning and watched pee wees play house and saw god. I sure had a lot of fun. See you all real soon. Better be good. Its time for the ultimate sleep number event on the sleep number 360 smart bed. Can it help with snoring . Ive never heard snoring. Exactly. No problem, and done. And now, during the ultimate sleep number event, save 50 on the sleep number 360® limited Edition Smart bed. Only for a limited time. 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Kevin arnold is just like a regular kid except in the 1960s, and hes not really aware of many of the events. Like in one of the episodes, the whole family is watching the apollo 8 take off, but im just sitting there trying to call a girl. The First Episode of The Wonder Years, anybody who saw it remembers the ending where the first kiss with winnie and kevin arnold. The song they play is when a man loves a woman. That moment seemed so pure and so real. When a man loves a woman cant keep his mind on nothing else the tone of the baby boomers in the 1960s is about rebellion, about being students. By the 1980s, its time to grow up. And so they shave their beards, give up their dashikis, and put on power suits, a whole new notion. Oh, the yuppies. Last year the politicians were all talking about winning their votes. Now the young urban professionals and the rest of their Baby Boom Generation are being wooed by advertisers and their agencies. By the 80s, it was pretty clear that the generation after the generation of the 60s may be embodied by alex keaton on family ties, seeming to be a lot more interested in the Corner Office than the new jerusalem. Youre a young man, you shouldnt be worried about success. You should be thinking about hopping on a Tramp Steamer and going around the world. The 60s are over, dad. Thanks for the tip. You werent laughing at michael j. Foxs character for being too conservative. You were actually laughing at the parents for being too hopelessly liberal. What is this . I found it in the shower. Thats generic brand shampoo. No this is him. This is the guy ive been telling you about. This is everything you want in a president. The genius of family ties, it allows a kind of youthful reaganite to emerge thats focused on the future, thats focused more on a critique of the 60s. Michael j. Fox as alex keaton really became the center of the show. And the writers were smart enough to see that they had something special, and they wrote to that. Its not fair, alex. Yeah. Theres nothing you can do about it, jen. My advice to you is that you just enjoy being a child for as long as you can. I know i did. It was the best two weeks of my life. Alex is a little bill buckley. The Wall Street Journal is his bible. He has a tie to go with his pajamas. Hes a very conservative and very intense 17yearold. The first thing your teacher is going to ask is what did you do over the summer . A lot of kids will say i went to the zoo or i went to the beach or i went to a baseball game. What are you going to say . I watched the iran contra hearings. If mom and dad thought this generation was going to the dogs, think again. This is the generation that has discovered hard work and success. American culture is changing in the 80s. And in terms of television, theres a whole notion of demographic segmentation. Networks were beginning to not be afraid to appeal to a very specific demographic. Hey, handsome. Look at that shirt. Is that a power shirt or what . Nice suit, alan. Good shoulder pads. You looking to get drafted by the eagles . 30somethings said were not going to have cops, lawyers or doctors. Were just going to be about people. What are we doing here, why did we start this business . To do our thing. But right now we got two wives, three kids, four cars, two mortgages, a payroll. And thats life, pal. You be the breadwinner now. Is that what i am . 30 something is a very important show as you are going into this era of television being more introspective and more emotional. And some people werent buying it. But for other people when they were talking about things like having kids and who is going to go back to work and some of these issues that hadnt 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 if there were a category for the most annoying show, this might win as well. Now 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. It doesnt 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 youre willing to go with that because it was a whole new spin on a law show. Uhuh, 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 . Well of course you would, because it is juicy, newsy, exciting stuff. It was really fun to take the Hill Street Blues format and use it to frame an entirely different social and cultural strata with vastly different results. I wonder if i might engage with my client privately. Certainly. What are you doing for dinner tonight . I was planning on having you. In that case, skip lunch. The formula had gotten established of how you can do a dramatic show, and yet still have an awful lot of fun. We didnt used to be able to accept that very easily in a tv hour. And even before the 80s were out, its like, okay, i get it. So its like, all right, what are the rules now . What are you doing . Im doing what i should have done all along. What i wanted to do originally. What i should have done last night. Stop that, david. Im calling the police, david. Hello, police . The networks realized there was an audience looking for something less predictable than traditional primetime fare. Moonlighting was another of those shows that said, okay, ive seen the formulas that weve had up to here, lets do different things. Hello. Hello. Were looking a little pale today, arent we . Who have we here . I dont know. Moonlighting was a really experimental show. They had a shakespeare episode, they had a Black And White episode. They did a musical episode. They tried a lot of different stuff. I dont give a flying fig about the lines in my face, the crows feet by my eyes, or the altitude of my caboose. Well, im at a loss. I dont know what a flying fig is. Thats okay. They do. Theres no trouble on the set. There is no trouble on the set. Well, we have a very volatile relationship. There is a hate love element to it. The flirtations were great and bruce and cybill were great. Glenn caron kept them apart for a long time, and bravo to him. What they did is they took the Sam And Diane dynamic from cheers and escalated it. Cheers was will they, wont they . Moonlighting was, do they even want to . Stay away from me. Here i come. But i dont want you. I never wanted you. Yeah, right. Does entertaining mean at some point stopping the tease of dave and mattie . Do they get together at some point . Well, thats going to be resolved this year. We like to think of it as two and a half years of foreplay. People who had been watching moonlighting for years were waiting for this moment. And your emotions are already there built on to the emotions that youre seeing on the screen. So when be my baby by the ronettes starts playing, its like a perfect storm of romance. The night we met i knew i needed you so much. 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Where guests are willing to expose painful and sometimes embarrassing aspects of their lives quite readily to millions of viewers. At the beginning of the decade, we get the dominance of phil donahue, and thats sort of a maturation of womens issues, he seemed to talk to them in the audience, he seemed to talk to them through the tv screen. Im glad you called. Kiss the kids. Well be back in just a moment. If you look at the body of work weve had, youre going to see the 80s there. Im not here to say youre wrong, but lets understand this. When you bring a moral judgment without knowing them, against them for the way that they look, they feel that confirms the reason for their rebellion, if thats what you want to call it. He really believed that Daytime Television needed to talk about the ideas we were thinking about, the issues we were concerned about. I dont want to characterize his question, but why dont you get this fixed instead of doing this screwy stuff . Theres not a single recorded case in history of any transsexual that ever, through psychological treatment, changed. It has never happened yet. And we were putting very important people on the program. All kinds of people. Gay people. People going to jail. People running for office. Sometimes the same people. It was a magic carpet ride. You really do paint a very, very grim picture of the sitting president of the United States. Let me just say this, i think hes probably the laziest president ive ever seen. The audience for phil donahue built and built and built and built, and led the way to oprah. Hello, everybody. Oprah has a particularly magical combination of her own background, her own experience, her own incisive mind, and empathetic spirit. Thank you. Im Oprah Winfrey, and welcome to the very First National Oprah Winfrey show. I was surprised at the rocket pace that oprah took off. Because it took us a lot longer. The donahue show rearranged the furniture, but oprah remodeled the whole house. There are a lot of other people out there watching who really dont understand what you mean when you say, were in love. Because i remember questioning my gay friends, you mean you feel about him the way i feel about its kind of a strange concept, you know, for a lot of people to accept. Oprah was connecting with people in a way that no one had on tv before. And it was really special to see. Well, did you know that for the longest time i wanted to be a fourth grade teacher because of you . My, i was not aware of inspiring anyone. I think you did exactly what teachers are supposed to do, they create a spark for learning. Its the reason i have a talk show today. Oprah winfrey now dominates the talk show circuit, both in the ratings and popularity. I want to use my life as a source of lifting people up. Thats what i want to do. Thats what i do every day on my show. You know, we get accused of being Tabloid Television and sensational and so forth. But what i really think we do more than Anything Else is we serve as a voice to a lot of people who felt up until perhaps my show or some of the others, they were alone. This is what 67 pounds of fat looks like. I cant lift it. It is amazing to me that i cant lift it but i used to carry it around every day. Theres nothing more endearing to an audience than to have that kind of honesty and humility and courage on the part of a host. And that, i think, has a lot to do with her power. Feels like i could do some good here, and i really do think that show does a lot of good. American television is drowning in talk shows. But its never seen anything like Morton Downey jr. I want to tell you sit down and shut up other competitors come and take the Television Talk show into two different directions. So you start seeing the phenomenon of daytime Television Shows becoming less tame and more wild. The 80s brought a lot of belligerence to television. Whether it was Morton Downey jr. Being the Offensive Charicaturish Person that he was, or geraldo. He did his own outlandish things. Stay with us, ladies and gentlemen. Were going to get into the mind of another allamerican boy who came under the influence of satanism and took part in a crime without passion or motive Geraldo Rivera takes the power of the talk show to a whole other level, trying to put people on stage who hate each other, who are going to fight in the case of the Temple Of Set and the church of satan, we have not had any problems with Criminal Behavior but yet when you hear story after story after story of people committing these wretched crimes and Violent Crimes in the devils name the more tension there is, the more conflict and violence there is, the more the ratings go up. And the American People love to complain about it, but they also love to watch. Geraldo rivera is back in a controversy tonight. Rivera drew sharp criticism with his recent Television Special on devil worship. But today he found himself in a real freeforall. I get sick and tired of seeing uncle tom here, sucking up, trying to be a white man go ahead. Go ahead. Sit down. Hey, hold it. Hold it. Sit down. Rivera suffered a broken nose, but he said the show will be broadcast later this month in its entirety. Well, thats not something i would have done. But there was a lot of hypocrisy. One of the major magazines put the picture of geraldo getting hit with a chair on the cover, and the article said, isnt this awful, look whats happened to television. Yet they couldnt wait to use it to sell their own magazine. Lets go to the audience, all right . I want to speak to you guys. Over the years, broadcasting has deteriorated. And now in this era of deregulation, its deteriorating further. Give people light, and they will find their own way. Relax, america will survive the talk shows. 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The big thing that changes in the 80s is the number of hours spent watching Television Goes up. The number of hours spent talking about Television Goes up. One of the symbols of this phenomenon is entertainment tonight. Hi, im tom hallic. Welcome to our opening night. The Premiere Edition of entertainment tonight. All of the critics were kind of unanimous in that they said it will never last because there simply isnt enough Entertainment News to fill a half hour every night. Entertainment tonight has surveyed tv critics in the United States and canada to find out which Television Shows had the most impact on viewers over the years. Now up until this time, nobody had done Television Like this. Nobody. Burt reynolds, the hottest actor in hollywood. Im surprised to see you here. Well, im glad to see you. Oh, thank you. We can meet here every night if you like. Thank you. A lot of what makes successful Television Programming is being in the right place at the right time. And it was the right time. Entertainment journalism evolved as viewers got more curious and had more access. Until that point, the Entertainment Business had been something we didnt know all that much about. We could go behind the scenes in our effort to really give an insiders look. The crafty old j. R. Of dallas fame was with his mother actress mary martin as he was presented with a star on the hollywood walk of fame. It was very honorific of the industry. They would do serious coverage of it. It wasnt salacious. And you would see actors speaking as actors instead of on a Johnny Carson show. What are you like on camera . Im like this. This is on camera. This is on camera. It was the beginning of a lot of money being made talking about entertainment and celebrities. Robert redford plays the good guy in the movies, but dont tell that to his neighbors in utah, they are still bitter and redford is the target of their ire. The audience grew and grew. And that was showing us the appetite for Celebrity News was big. It was big. Get ready for lifestyles of the rich and famous. Televisions most dazzling hour of excitement. Hi, im robin leach in monaco. The glittering gem of the riviera. And youve got a vip ticket to prince raniers private party. Your Sunday Newspaper is still delivered with the comics around the news. And that was what i always thought lifestyles was. We were the comic around the news. Except we did it as seriously as they did news. Finally in the driving seat of his own career, he burned rubber in a new direction. David hasselhoff, rock idol. It was a time where pushing the limits with wealth and ostentatiousness in a lot of cases was very comfortable. One of the earliest stories that we presented to you on lifestyles was about the amazing real estate wizard donald trump. If he didnt shock and surprise you back then, hes had plenty of time since. With all of this costing billions, not millions, do the figures ever frighten you . The answer is no, its my business, its my life. Its my lifestyle. I love it. The good, the bad. Does this bring with it political aspiration . No political aspiration. Your show has gotten a lot of ridicule. There are people who say its nothing more than trash. That doesnt upset me, because i think its the best trash there is on television. I am not in the business of brain surgery. I am in the business of fluff. Thats the fantasy element. At a time when the access is possible. Its escapism, and its aspirational. You want to stand in a hot tub with a glass of champagne, rock on. Weve never seen that kind of wealth ever before. We didnt mock it. We didnt say it was right, and we didnt say it was wrong. We were just through the keyhole. Sometimes it absolutely amazes me. I walk away from a shoot and i think, well, we did it again. There was more of everything in tv by the 80s. Your opportunity for watching stuff is increasingly vast. Nbc presents real people. My names michael lee wilson. This dawned on me, that the application of a small motor on a pair of Roller Skates might really be a great thing. Somebody once said that each one of us will be a star for 15 minutes, and i think that thats probably going to happen. American culture used to be a culture that celebrated privacy. In the 1980s as were watching celebrities sort of play out on stage, hey, i want to join too. All the world becomes a stage. You start seeing shows like real people or the peoples court. The peoples court. Where Reality Television is taken one step further. To see more tv, producers had to come up with new and different ways to give them television. Dont be stupid get over here i told you not to be stupid. What cops did was, it took away the script and just brought the camerapeople and the crews on location to try and catch actual things happening. Cocaine. 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Its like the world stops when that happened. I mean, that was like just massive. This was the final act of a spectacle that may never again be seen again in this century, if ever. The archbishop of canterbury called the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer today the stuff of fairy tales. Good evening. The royal couple at this hour is off on the honeymoon, while a lot of people here in london tonight are still talking about the events of the day. When you have great moments like the royal wedding, they are part of history. And its done beautifully and everybody has a chance to watch it all on television, and everybody just wants to drink a toast to chuck and di. A princess who must now be aware, as it was on this day, that every single move she makes in public will be recorded and observed. A very difficult life indeed. Well be back in just a moment with some closing observations and one final look at what has justifiably been called the wedding of the century. By the authority of the state of new york, i pronounce that they are husband and wife. You may kiss the bride. Your wedding was seen by an astonishing number of people. 16 and 19 million viewers. How do you account for that kind of popularity . Oh, i cant. I cant. The way its grown is just amazing to me. It did appear in the 80s that it was a good time for daytime soap operas, especially for a show like General Hospital which had that huge success with luke and lauras wedding. I remember when luke and laura got married because it was nighttime newsworthy. The soap opera discovers the blockbuster mentality, the sweeps month mentality. Like, what can we do to get even more people watching . You have a wedding. You have a kidnapping. You have an evil twin. And primetime stole from daytime. After dallas proved that ewing oil was better than real oil for cbs, the networks rushed to give the public more. The great primetime soap operas of the 1980s, dallas, dynasty, theyre all about excess. This is about being over the top, stabbing each other in the back, going for the gusto, and having fun. I know whats wrong with you. The emptyarmed madonna. Mourning the baby that she couldnt have and the baby that she almost got to adopt. That is it, isnt it . You miserable bitch there was a bigness to the stories. And they could afford to do it on a network if youre doing one episode a week. You cant do that if youre doing five episodes a week for a daytime show. So just the Production Value gave it that pizzazz. If you cant have it, watch other people with it, or so say the three networks who are programming nearly 40 of their primetime fare with series about the very rich, and the public is devouring it at such a rate that makebelieve money has become ratings gold. The characters were larger than life, they were more evil and more cunning and manipulative. And more gorgeous. I mean, really, look at the way they were dressed. Look at the way they lived. Everything, it was fascinating. Alexis. Yes . I didnt thank you for your present. Its he you should slap, dear, not i. We all wanted to live like everyone on dynasty, like the carringtons. And it all just ended up being a wonderful picture of fun and debauchery. Greed was encouraged in the 80s. There was a sense of conspicuous consumption as being okay. And those shows kind of exploited that. Primetime families like the carringtons who live here in luxury on the dynasty sound stage are not the only rich folk on tv. In the last five years, more than half of all new shows have featured the wealthy. Ten years ago, that figure was zero. It was an accident. Your fathers dead. Falcon crest was a wine family. Theres lorenzo lamas, and theres Ronald Reagans first wife. Jane wyman is on that show. Emma is pregnant. I know a doctor who can take care of it right away. That will never happen. All of the shows, where, oh, my god, whats next . Whats going to happen with that . He cant get away with that. And then you tune in, it was appointment television. What will become of the missing twins on Knots Landing . What . They all had spinoffs. The dallas spinoff Knots Landing. The colbys was a spinoff for dynasty. They were seeing how much they could max this stuff out. Because it was really successful. Wheres your son miles . Isnt he going to be part of this venture or just playing polo as usual . The colbys can always find room for another trophy. You had these people fighting over oil and mansions and it was fantasy, but in a kind of so over the top way that it was fun. Theres nothing devious about using your femininity. These shows took themselves so unseriously that they were camp, but that was okay with the central audience that was loving them. It was entertainment. We werent trying to do high drama. We were there to entertain. We were glossy. There was no getting around it, we knew what we were there for, and we did it as best we could. 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He is in the process of building the most extensive media in history. It was was a Huge Development in television. It was presumed to be complete and Rupert Murdoch having disrupted the Newspaper Business and Television Business in britain. I dont see why there should only be three Broadcast Networks. Im going to make another one. This was a big, bold bet. Meantime, he will have to become an american citizen if he is to own tv stations here. Something he says he is willing to do. Some people are saying it will take you 20 years to get your fox network on par with the big three. Are you prepared to wait that long . Sure. I certainly intend to live that long, but i dont believe in the 20 years. The idea of murdochs idea for a Fourth Network was like ted turner starting cnn. Its ridiculous. What does he know about television . Wnks we dont think of ourselves as nbc, cbs or abc. We dont have to reach everyone. Theres no question we have an Inferior Lineup of stations to our counterparts. It means we have to work harder to get our message across and get shows sampled. We have to differentiate ourselves from the networks. We have to do things they would not do. Fox started throwing anything anything against the wall, not knowing what was going to go. First shows were things like 21 jumpstreet. Joan rivers in terms of late night. We have been banned in boston, which is wonderful. So pick a finger. And the Tracey Ullman show oh, please. It was a sketch show and they needed something to go between the sketches. Again, they were looking for something different. I got to have those candy bars. You better not be thinking of stealing those candy bars. Thats it the simpsons would never have come along had it not been for the Tracey Ullman show. Ultimately crime hurts the criminal. Thats not true, mom. I got a free ride home, didnt i . Bart fox was thrilled that it was different. They said, sure, be experimental, do whatever you want. Were just happy to have a show on the air. Im home. Married with children was their first big, big hit in that way that said if all the rest of television is going this way, were going that way. Bud, kelly, you want to come down and help me in the kitchen . There, that should buy us about ten minutes. Seven more than well need. The title of Married With Children on the script was not the cosby show. How great. You have to love that. They were taking the piss out of American Families fun. Great fun. Never wanted to get married, im married. Never wanted kids, i got two of them. How the hell did this happen . The bundys were like a reaction to the perfection of the huxtables. You had this wonderful black family and these horrible white people. And each show works on its own terms because you could find things to relate in both. Howdy neighbor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why dont we sit down. There was a lot of be fun to be had in al and peg bundy. After fox introduces Married With Children, it does very well, then back on abc, they came up with another major hit roseanne. You think this is a Magic Kingdom where you just sit up here on your throne. Oh, yeah . Yeah, and you think everything gets done by some wonderful wizard. Poof, the laundrys folded. Poof, dinners on the table. You want me to fix dinner . Ill fix dinner. Im fixing dinner. Oh, but honey, you just fixed dinner three years ago. Typical American Families werent on television for the longest time. The donna reed days, the father knows best. Hardly anybody really lived like that. That was the way advertisers wanted you to live. I know what just might make you feel better. Me too but i bet its different than what you got. The ideal situation is if you can subvert whatever common stuff is said about families and said about parents. Whats in this . Lead . Oh, i got you kids new leg irons. Her loudness and her unfilteredness were key to why we liked her. She was saying stuff about Working Class people, stuff about men and women. So it was about marriage and about raising kids and about how hard it is. Oh, great. Im just going to look like a freak. Thats all. What else is new . Shut up. This is why some animals eat their young. Tv in the 80s was a big decade for the evolution of comedy, for the evolution of drama. It just pushed everything forward. You think perhaps this generation are paying more attention to the dialogue, to the relationships they see on television than years previous . Clearly the people watching our shows are, and 30 something and cheers and st. Elsewhere. These are shows smartly written. Its their words that define them, and i think thats what people like. What were supposed to be here is the one thing people can trust. If you go out there like a bunch of night riders, what the hell are you but just another vicious street gang . That spawned an extraordinary number of shows that really carved out a unique niche for themselves. We began to turn television into an art form. And for the first time, people were proud to say, i write for television. Up until that point, television was second class. In the 80s, it was Something Else entirely. And it was new, and it was kind of interesting. Its like everyone in the 80s starts to want to tell their stories. Thats what really changes things. The unexpected was more welcome in the 80s. Predictability lost its cachet. Television has an impact on every era, every decade. Television still shapes the thinking of america like no other element in our country. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. It gave rise to people pursuing artistic content in a way that i think has raised the bar in Television Production exponentially. I love you guys. Theres a shift in the 80s from just wanting to placate the audience to wanting to please and challenge the audience, and thats the decade when it happened. We had one hell of a run, didnt we partner . Yeah, we did, sonny. Im going to miss you, man. Im going to miss you, too. Give you a ride to the airport . Why not. Dont touch that dial. Were about to flip it for you. In five, four, three, two. Tv is changing dramatically now with 150 channels that might be available in the near future. Theres a lot of things that we do that you couldnt have on network television. People are really trying to do something adventurous. Shame on you this is more celebration of culture and opening the doors and allowing america to come on inside. There is always something on television and some of it may be better than we deserve. That was cool