Listen to it. Oh, they know when it hits the bottom it will be 1990. Goodbye to the 80s. Ten, nine, eight eight, eight, eight oh, will this horrible year never end . When the 90s began, we started to see a lot of experimentation. And the simpsons i think in some senses was inspired by not necessarily hatred of television, but a distrust of a lot of the ways in which television was talking to us. Tv respects me. It laughs with me. Not at me. Youre stupid. Doh i think the Sitcoms Of The 80s i love you guys. Were such a warm, safe humor. You see . The kids, they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. And i think there was a real yearning for another type of humor. We were able to Spoof Fatherhood what a bad father. Which at the time, and i stress at the time, was bill cosby as the shining example. Did you ever know that youre my hero the stuff they got away with because its a cartoon. The father strangling the child. Why you little we are going to keep on trying to strengthen the American Family to make American Families a lot more like the waltons and a lot less like the simpsons. Huh . We go to a completely bizarre period of time in 1992 when a sitting president is raging against a sitcom. Aaaah they have dealt with politics. They have dealt with popular culture. Theyve dealt with all kinds of issues of racism, of sexism. Dont ask me, im just a girl. Right on, say it, sister. Its not funny, bart. Millions of girls will grow up thinking this is the right way to act. They have found a way to talk about everything thats going on in our lives through the filter of the simpsons. Them immigrants. They want all the benefits to living in springfield, but they aint even bothered to learn themselves the language. Yeah, those are exactly my sentimonies. Rar gar i think one of the governing things thats happening with the simpsons is a distrust of anyone who tells us we should trust them and doesnt earn that trust. Ill take that statue of justice too. Sold. When they make fun of how fox works you are watching fox. We are watching fox. They are telling you dont trust us either. Eat my shorts. All right. Ill eat eat your shorts . The simpsons is like shakespeare in the sense that we quote the simpsons all the time, very often without even knowing it. Excellent i wish i could create something that culturally indelible. Its unlike Anything Else tv has ever run. Twin peaks showed up Out Of Nowhere at the beginning of the decade. The Pilot Episode of that was one of the strangest and most exciting things i have ever seen. Im at the twin peaks County Morgue with the body of the victim. Whats her name . Laura palmer. [ screaming ] it was incredible. Just how slowly in the beginning the news spread around this little town that this young beautiful girl had died, and that haunting music was so dark and so beautiful. [ Talking Backwards ] what on earth is essentially a Art Film Doing in prime Time Television . American Network Television has long been considered the home of the blands, the cautious and the predictable. So it was with some trepidation that the abc Network Recently launched a new series that was none of those things. Twin peaks has already been described by one critic as the series that will change tv. Its directed by david lynch. David lynch was a filmmaker known for his taste in the eccentric and memorable. The idea that he would do Network Television in the 90s was crazy. Do you watch much of it . I like the idea of television, but im too busy to see very much of it. What do you think of that which you do see On Television . Well, some of it, you know, i really enjoy. Are you being diplomatic . Sort of. [ screaming ] the beautiful thing about television is you have the chance to do a continuing story. And thats the main reason for doing it. I think that twin peaks with the initial attention it got allowed all the other networks to say, lets do something different. What was interesting about northern exposure, it was an odd sort of universe that this guy was dropped into. The days coming. It aint going to be long when you aint even going to have to leave your living room. No more schools no, more bodegas, no more tabernacles, no more cineplexes. All right . Youre going to snuggle up to your fiberoptics, baby, and bliss out. You also had experimentation that set the stage for a lot of what came later. Its kind of hard to pin down what exactly the x files is. I mean, on the surface, its a show about investigating paranormal activities. Unidentified flying objects. I think that fits the description pretty well. Tell me im crazy. Mulder, youre crazy. That dynamic, that dramatic tension of Believer Versus Skeptic is one of the engines of the show. You were always seeing it from a specific point of view. Theyre equals . Yeah, absolutely. They are equals and in a way they have kind of switched Gender Stereotypes because the character i play, mulder, is the intuitive one. And scully is the rationalist, the doctor. A lot of folks who enjoyed the x files who otherwise didnt watch tv might have been drawn to the show by its, for lack of a better way to put it, its Stick It To The Man ethos. Dont trust the government or big business or anybody but yourself and your friends and family, i guess. Its a message thats somewhat dark and cynical, but was kind of a breath of fresh air in the early 90s. The 90s was a time of conspiracies. And the internet was starting to spread beyond just like hardcore computer users. So you could have Message Boards and usenet news groups. And everybody wanted to talk about the black oil and the bees and mulders sister and what the Cigarette Smoking Man was up to. And i would go to alt. Tvxfiles. And people were so nuts for this show. Its just pure science fiction. Thats probably what i like most about it. The x files changed the way people watch television. You could sense these successful creators trying to see how they could do things different five or ten years ago. Sometimes that led to really challenging Network Television that was cool and fun to watch. And sometimes it seemed to fall off the edge a little bit. Lets be careful out there at the time, Steven Bochco was a very successful producer of hour dramas and wanted to try something brand new. Were the police we have a warrant for your arrest. So his idea was to combine a gritty cop show with a broadway musical. I saw one in which a bunch of gang bangers were in jail. And they began to sing. Life in the hood aint no pizza pie, everybody die when the bullets fly. Life in the hood aint no pizza pie, people die when the bullets fly and i said wait a minute. Hold on. Wait a minute. I thought, well, this is it. This is going to be great. This is going to be as innovative as anything i have ever done. Hes guilty, judge, hes guilty you can see it in his eyes he did the crime and now hes got to pay it circled the drain. I will give credit to anybody who goes Outside The Box and swings really hard for the fences. I worked real hard and i got my education im creatively proud of it. Still. You know, im very glad we tried it. I dont think id want to do it again. Ur family centered. This mothers day, show your love with a gift from the center of me collection. Time after. Exclusively at kay. Time youre strong. 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. 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Generation x, the 20 somethings, boomerangers, whatever these 46 million young souls are called are turning out to be kind of a hard sell. In the 90s what we realized is advertisers would pay premiums for collegeeducated young adults 18 to 49. We started reinventing nbc and trying to speak to that audience. Where is someone . Im starving. This is him right here. Is there a table ready . The Chinese Restaurant was one of the very, very early episodes of seinfeld. And truly Nothing Happened in the episode. They were waiting for a table. I feel like just walking over there and taking some food off of somebodys plate. We said to larry david, hey, like nothing happens. And larry was offended. He was like wildly offended. Nbc believed in the show so they said were committing to four episodes. Yes, yeah, right. Four episodes. Normally its 13 or 8 or something. Yes, at least. So we didnt really think that they had too much confidence in the show. We didnt think it would work, but we felt that they had to go through their process and they would learn. And ultimately they knew better than we did. My mother caught me. Caught you . Doing what . You know. I was alone. The Turning Point for seinfeld from like nice show that all of the cool people kind of know about but thats it to massive hit was the episode called the contest where they tried to abstain from selfpleasure for as long as possible. 6 30, time for your bath. George, im hungry. Hang on, ma. Hang on. Once you do 30 minutes on masturbation, you can pretty much get away with anything. I guess youll be going back to that hospital. My mother, jerry. But are you still master of your domain . I am king of the county. The week after that aired people were talking about that in the workplace the entire week. They still are talking about it. 52 seconds and two of the greatest words in sitcom history. Im out. One of the shorthand descriptions of seinfeld is no hugs, no lessons. Lets push it a little further than its ever been pushed before. I think the big breakthrough of seinfeld was that the characters were not nice people. Someone help shut up, you old hag they were narcissistic. Help they would screw each other at the drop of a hat. Hes just a dentist. And youre an antidentite. And yet be best friends the next week. When you wish upon a star we dont have to love them. We just have to laugh at them. Im really sorry. I was in the pool i was in the pool the idea of a character with darker tendencies fire that was so taboo in television comedy. Are you about done . Im just getting warmed up. Were in the confines of network tv with commercials, with still a lot of things that are very highly structured and yet were able to find ways of pushing in those boundaries. No soup for you. It took us to a new level of comedy. And it kind of defined like, yeah, nbc, thursday night, this show, expect the unexpected. Can you sing the theme song from cheers . Cheers yeah, how does it start . Making your way in the world today come on. Its so corny. I know. But its cute. Just sing it. Takes everything you got taking a break from all your worries sure can help a lot wouldnt you like to get away sometimes you want to go where Everybody Knows your name we decided to end cheers in the 11th year. Over 93 Million People watched the finale of cheers. But its a sad experience for everybody. This was our baby for 11 years and were not going to be around these people every day. You people are as dear to me as my own family. We had been serving fake suds forever. It was time for everybody to sip. In fact, i was sipping along with them. Time goes by so fast. People move in and out of your life. You must never miss an opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. We had been through so much together. You spend that much time with the same set of people, it does become your family. I feel pretty lucky to have the friends i do. 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As a young kid in cleveland, i always knew i would one day end up doing a talk show. Its Arsenioooooo Hall in less than two years, arsenio hall has fired his talk show for the mtv generation into a contender for the crown of late night television. Yes, yes how come i didnt hear all of that woofing going on . When i would watch you too many white people. Johnny was the big dog. But i knew everybody on the planet wasnt watching him. And it dawned on me that i could go many weeks and not see a motown group on the tonight show. Arsenio hall has been dubbed the prince of late night. There was a whole world of talent that had never and would never have been on any late night show. Sitting at home watching Arsenio Hall 2livecrew came on and sang meso horny, it was like the sex pistols. Id never seen anything like it. It was an explosion in the audience. He appealed to a Black And White young audience and it was a much broader appeal than the powers that be had estimated. Rap. Rap is real big among our teens. Thats poetry. Of course it is. Having maya angelou on, i mean, where would you have seen her otherwise . Paul lance dunbar in 1892 he wrote a poem called a negro love song. It says seen my lady home last night, jump back honey, jump back. Held her hand and squeezed it tight, jump back honey, jump back. He didnt just have black people on his show. But if you were hip, you wanted to be on arsenio. This was something i heard a political analyst talk about recently. He said you kind of were i use the word chilling out. He said you were pulling back a little bit. You had been instructed not to say as much or be outspoken. No . Ive heard that, but i never know who says it. I think its Wishful Thinking on the part of some people. Guess who suggested to bill to do the Arsenio Hall Show if you want to get a younger demo . Hilldawg. He attracted a lot of people who werent fans before that night. The 90s was a glorious moment for black television. Because you saw these representations that youd never seen before. The premise of the fresh prince was this kid comes from philadelphia. In West Philadelphia born and raised on the playground is where i spent most of my days his mom says im going to send you to live with your uncle. He shows up at this mansion in bel air, baseball cap on backward. Like he doesnt even know how to act in this environment. The black producers and directors and writers were always playing with this kind of subverting expectations of what is blackness. The incredible work of the fresh prince at its most triumphant was when it was showing the ways that being black is always going to be a problem no matter what. Vehicle registration, please. Just a sec. But the thing is, officer, this isnt my car. Theres the episode i remember where they get pulled over in a car. What . He is going to tell us to get out of the car. You watch too much tv, will. Get out of the car. We have an interaction with the Police Officer that is horrible and racist in a lot of ways. And carlton has this epiphany about how money wont save him. No map is going to save you. And neither is your glee club or your fancy bel air address or who your daddy is. Because when youre driving in a nice car in a strange neighborhood, none of that matters. They only see one thing. The writers of the Fresh Prince Of Bel Air had a really hard task to approach these topics with nuance, and were doing it at a clip that was way ahead of their time. Now dont touch that dial. Were about to flip it for you to one of the most talked about tv shows. It is, as they say, on another network. Fox. You can do what you want to do In Living Color ladies and gentlemen, keenan ivory wayans. In living color was the first show that was created by, written by, directed by, starring an africanamerican, all of those things in one. This is celebration of culture and of change. Us opening the doors and allowing america to come inside. Yo, yo, yo, all you bad Bargain Hunters out there, welcome to the homeboys shopping network. A lot of what they did on In Living Color was trying to take the stereotypes or the misperceptions about what black men are and turn them upside down. Not only will you get like all the Cable Stations out there, but youll be able to talk directly to the astronauts. It brought this smart, very controversial comedy that black folks had never seen before that centered around their life experiences. Who are you . I am the minister louis farrakhan. Africanamericans composed 25 of foxs market. I always get trapped in the corner with somebody named bob. Hey, listen martin, i just saw boyz in the hood, all right . I didnt know, martin, i didnt know. And they knew that they needed to capture this audience to grow. I guess you think you smart and cool. But if you think you get a job here, youre a damn fool. Now get up out of my so they basically gave the black creators freedom to do whatever you want. Just get the audience. Wb the wb and upn took that concept from fox. Your shoulders are harder than cheap breast implants. Going after this underserved audience of urban minority viewers and really ran with it. Im a new millennium woman who will not be defined by traditional female roles. Okay . A lot of the networks built themselves up partially on africanamerican viewers. Shake it to the east, shake it to the west. The africanamerican shows indexed lower in terms of household income. So over the course of the decade, the network started to move away from those shows. I dont know about you people, but ill be damned if it im going to let them destroy my neighborhood. Black creators felt used and abused. You made your money. You built your audience on us you built your audience on us and now, you know, youre done. E that scufffree life. 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The program premiered with an advertising boycott. Channel 7, shame on you but it was such an immediate hit, that boycott lasted, oh, four weeks. They could use the nudity and the curse words to go deeper into the actual emotional burden of being a cop. Im an asshole. And it had this character, andy sipowicz. He is a raging alcoholic, racist, sexist, violent. He created the tv antihero. I know that great africanamerican George Washington carver discovered the peanut. But can you provide names and addresses of these friends . You know, youre a racist scumbag. Despite his flaws, despite his prejudices, i think people identified with his pain. I wish there was a way to say this that wouldnt hurt you. Theres a famous early episode where they are investigating the rape and murder of a young boy. And they find a homeless Child Molester who murdered the kid and sipowicz to get the confession has to be like very sensitive and very good cop. I know this has got to be tearing you up inside. But youre going to feel a lot better if you just tell the truth. You can sort of see on dennis franzs face this is killing him to not like destroy this guy right now. And finally, he gets the confession, he gets the signed statement. He walks out of the room, he goes into another Interrogation Room and he breaks the door in two with his fists. And im choking up talking about it right now, because thats how great a moment of tv that it is. 20 years from now, the best tv dramas, what do they look like . I dont know. Will they be bolder than what we see today . Oh, assuredly, assuredly they will be. The 90s gave us several shows that didnt explode in the ratings, but were very influential to other people making television. Homicide is one of them. Shell me with questions all night im living in a danger zone Homicide Life On The Street was really innovative in terms of its style. It used music in ways that advanced the narrative and it 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. Aint no tears coming from my eyes. Those eyes are brimming with tears. They had so many africanamerican 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 wasnt done On Television. When a cop shoots somebody, he stands by it. He picks up the radio mic and calls it in. He stands by the body. If not, cops are no better than anybody else. In the 90s Television was getting more complicated, stories were starting to become more episodic and characters were starting to develop and change. None of that happened on law order. This was a show that completely delivered on its formula every time. You get a crime, you got the investigation into the crime. You better be packing more than a dirty mouth. You got an arrest. Whats the charge . Hey, im asking you a question. Whats the charge . Theres no charge. This ones on us. Then you had a trial. Hes badgering, your honor. Sit down and shut up. Mr. Fineman. Overruled. And you will address the court from now on, mr. Mccoy. So every time you watched you got what you came for. Tell me, doctor. All those women you ran through your examination rooms, do you remember their faces or did you not even bother to look up . You had in law order the kinds of characters people take to heart. Ill let you take me to lunch. Onetime offer. And if youre an actor and you say well, gee, maybe its not really such a bad medium after all. Miranda, bottle of mayo, the supreme courts mimic decision. The whole thing was legally obtained. They were both represented by counsel. You just get hooked in. Its life and death and stuff. We know what you did. Counsel. You hear me . Do you hear me . Look at me law order was like crack. Youd have to sit and watch me for 50 minutes just like not moving, barely breathing. Theres times i have almost passed out watching law order. I need your help. E. R. Had originally been written as a movie for Steven Spielberg to direct. So we had this twohour piece which was a reflection of michaels experiences as a medical student. You need a large bore in case theyre bleeding and you need to transfuse them. Do you know how to start an i. V. . Actually, no. E. R. Is a hospital show, but its really an action movie. Three walking wounded. Yellow urgent, red critical and black gurney. Got it . Got it. A gurney comes in, people are shouting instructions, climbing on the body and doing cpr and racing off to the surgical suite. Get that gurney out of there someone wanders in. Theyre tossing around medical three units. They dont stop to explain what it is. Prep for a peritoneal lavage. I think i know what that is now, but only because i watched a lot of e. R. Over the years. Pleural lavage. You can try but i dont think his heart would take it. We can bypass him. That would be the fastest way. What do you think . Youre the attending. There was so much information coming at you that i think it made the experience feel as if you had to watch it in the same way that youd watch a film. That you had to stay involved in it the whole time. Come on, ben. You can make it. Hold on, buddy. Hold on. There was a lot of research that said people didnt want to watch anybody have anything other than a happy outcome. Its not flat line, its defib. Another line of epi. We argued that wasnt really showing what the world was for physicians. I had unbelievable amount of respect for the people who did this because i understood how human they were. announcer carvanas had a lot of firsts. 100 online car buying. Car vending machines. And now, putting you in control of your financing. 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You couldnt talk about public service. What are the ratings going to be . What are the demographics going to be . What is the profit going to be . Well, sensationalism sells. In a plea bargain, 18yearold amy fisher got up to 15 years in prison for shooting the wife of her alleged lover. So intense is the interest in it this case there are three, three madefortv movies now in the works about it. You make money off sex. You make money off death. You make money off crime. The press calls the case the Beverly Hills mansion murders. And the story reads like one of the unsold scripts that circulates here in hollywood. We enter into the Television News soap opera. A story of basic instincts, anger and fear. I was scared and i just wanted him to leave me alone. And so broadcast journalism loses its purity and becomes much more shoddy and sensationalistic. And then it all comes together with o. J. Simpson. Im larry carrol in los angeles. The Los Angeles CountyDistrict Attorney has just filed Murder Charges against orenthal james, o. J. Simpson. I have to interrupt this call. I understand were going to go to a live picture in los angeles. Police believe that o. J. Simpson is in that car . The o. J. Simpson story starts with the chase and then goes on to his arrest and then culminates with the trial, which goes on and on and on and is televised day after day after day. This is going to be a long trial. Theres a lot of evidence to come in. The o. J. Simpson case was such a National Phenomenon that those of us who were covering it just lived this case 24 hours a day because there was so much demand for people talking about it. As simpson struggled to slide the gloves onto his hands and turned to a juror saying theyre too small, prosecutors were incensed. The trial was On Television during the hours that had traditionally been the time for soap operas. And oj was, very much, a soap opera. He is impeached by his own witness. I ask that you put a stop to it. Either put him on the stand or excuse me, stand up and speak when it is your turn. No question, the best tv show of the 90s was the oj Simpson Trial and everyone on it was riveting. The Simpson Trial finally winding to a close. We, the jury, in the aboveentitled action find the defendant, not guilty of the crime of murder in violation of the penal code section 187a. The verdict of the oj Simpson Trial, viewed by 150 Million People. Its more people, than watch president ialelection returns. Thats crazy. Because there was trial footage, every day, cnn saw its audience increase, like, five times. The success of cnn was not lost on other people. And so, there were competing forces coming into play. Now reached this moment, when we can firmly announce the starting of a foxnews channel. Unfortunately, with with cable news and the ability, or the need, to be on the air, 24 7, where you are trying to get as many eyeballs, as possible, at one time. To gravitate toward those stories that are sensational. You know, it brought us the ability to go too far. Is the Jean Benet Ramsey investigation turning into a circus . Here is the point. Here is where the fear comes into it, i think, larry. Its the fear that says, gosh, if we dont cover it big time, our competition is and when thigh cover it big time, they are getting a big jump in the ratings. If we are going to last, survive, we got to do it. What you also see, is a whole army of commentators. People, who make their business, talking about the news. What i say is what we should do is we should bomb his capability of producing oil. Take out his refineries, his stations, his wells. They dont have any capability of producing oil. The networks were doing good journalism. But they became much more preoccupied by profits. Its much easier to have someone in your Studio Pontificating than to have reporters, out in the field, reporting. I dont know if any of this is true. But what i have heard is that the father went down, opened this basement room. Which the fbi had bypassed. Every single sentence on on cnn, perhaps on cnbc, on fox, on msnbc, begins with the words, i think. But after a while, people get confused by what is speculation, by what is innuendo, by what is fact. And as far as the viewer is concerned, be very, very careful of unsubstantiated information presented with great hype. I think i can. I think i can. I think i can. I think. I can. [announcer] welcome to intelligent indoor grilling with the ninja foodi smart xl grill. Just pick your protein, select your doneness, and let the grill monitor your food. It also turns into an air fryer. Bring outdoor grilling flavors indoors with the grill that grills for you. Well, well, well. Look at you. You mastered the master bath. 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Com to learn more. text chime now to trick out these lights. text chime text chime sighs text chime chuckles text chime its the biggest week in television. Watchathon week is your chance to finally watch shows you missed for free. Now you get to talk about them with your friends, no matter what time it is. Say watchathon into your voice remote and watch for free tv is changing dramatically, now, with 150 channels that might be available in the near future. There are more choices, than ever before. And its a tough job. You you have to try and get a sense of what is the audience going to really make an attachment to . In the 90s, cable was coming on strong. So, we had to examine, who are we gonna be . Well, we wanted to be smart, sophisticated comedy. Six months ago, i was living in boston. My wife had left me. Which was very painful. Then, she came back to me, which was excruciate. Well, you know, i thought fraser was dead with cheers. But we thought we built an audience and Great Potential for, you know, building out the character to another place. Fraser was kind of like oneact plays. Mother and i moved here when i was a small boy, after the tragic death of my father. I kept the pain of that loss buried, deep, within me, like a serpent coiled within a damp cave. Okay. Thats it. We always assumed the audience was smarter than mostother people did. And we played to that. She is just unschooled like doolittle. She will be ready for a ball, in no time. Leave it to you. Kelsey grammar played p pomposity like no one you have ever seen and got huge laughs. Whats taken so long . I am analyzing my options unlike your wingit approach, i like to plan a strategy. Like a general leading his troops into battle. Checkmate. I think fraser probably stands as the singlemost successful spinoff, at least in the history of sitcoms. And the emmy goes to fraser. Fraser. Fraser. We were lightning hot. And it was critical for us to be leading the way, not just following. Friends is about that time in your life, when your friends are your family. When david crane and i lived in new york, we were part of a group of six people. We were, all, attached at the hip and we went everywhere together and celebrated everything together. And there is that period, where youre looking to be out there, on your own. And the people you rely on are the ones, who live down the hall. Here we go. Pivot. Pivot pivot pivot pivot pivot shut up. Shut up. Shut up friends permeated the culture, in a way that was really special. Everybody was obsessed with the show. And it became, like, which one of these characters are you . If you are a girl, were you phoebe, monica, or rachel . I got to tell you, this really does put me in a better mood. The kids who were watching, the young audience, saw a lifestyle that was aspirational. I wish i had an apartment, in new york city, that no one seems to be worried about the rent for. I wish that i looked like matt le blanc. I wish i had Jennifer Anistons hair. One of the things that made friends a phenomena is people actually bonded with these characters. They emotionally were invested in ross and rachels relationship. I could not have done this without you. Okay. More clothes in the drier . I was dropping my daughter off for sunday school. At our temple. And literally, my rabbi stopped me and said, whats gonna happen with ross and rachel . You look really pretty tonight. Oh, thanks. The one with the prom video is one of my favorites. You guys, we dont have to watch this. Yeah. Come on. Where is chip . Why isnt he here, yet . He will be here. Okay. Take a chill pill. This seemed like a really surprising way to get rachel to know how ross feels. I cant go to my own prom without a date. Take her. You can wear my tux. Dad, she wont want to go with me. She is learning something new, and he thinks, oh, god, please, dont let her see this. Please, dont let her see this. Rachel, ready or not. Here comes your knight in shining oh, no. Chip. Oh, dear. Ross sees himself, and you see that look on his face and how sad he is. Because he wanted to take her to the prom. When she crossed the room, i still kind of get chills from it. When she crossed the room and gave him that kiss [ cheers and applause ] the audience went insane. At the height of mustsee tv, thursday nights on nbc. 75 million americans watched thursday night. That was, at the time, onethird of the country. Ooh. What is this stuff . This sweater . Its angora. Well, its wonderful. The machine that was nbc, in the 90s, for comedy, was untouchable. Youre not from around here, are you . It generated so much viewership and money and awards. Do not need this. The top of our wedding cake. When its not a scrapbook, its a freezer. No. We were all part of kind of i think this chapter in television, where we realized we were in the right place, at the right time. Lets see how you like this, naughty boy. We certainly associate nbc of the 90s with having extremelysuccessful sitcoms. But they werent the only network that found their way to having some success. Tgif was on abc, on friday. And it was their block of familyoriented comedies. I cant take it. I need the cake. Michelle. It was not sophisticated television. But these were shows that people adored. Cbs. Cbs was in a really bad spot. They had just fallen apart, over the early part of the 90s and they had gone through a coupledifferent network executives. But then, suddenly, they had this hit with an unknown comic. This was the year of seinfeld. No hugging, no learning. And this was a show being made, as if it was produced in the era of the Dick Van Dyke show. There was hugging. There was learning. If you worked for me, your job was to go home, get in a fight with your wife. And come back in and tell me about it. Dont sleep on the couch. I just cleaned down there. In fact, the pilot, i put in this true thing that happened to me. Wherein, i sent my parents a gift for the holidays of the food of the month club. Did you know you sent me a box of pears . Yeah. Yeah. From a place called food of the month . Thats right. Thats right. How are they . And my mother reacted as if i had sent her a box of heads from a murderer. Why did you do this to me . Oh, my gosh. What is happening . Who do you think we are . We cant go out and get our own fruit . All right. Im cancelling the fruit club the real story is where the real connection with your audience is. Thank god, all your families are crazy, too. Looks like you got the whole family together. Yeah. Yeah. Its dysfunction palooza. With a vegan menu. That serves dinner at 4 30. Personal assistance just a text away. 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And now, ladies and gentlemen, heres Johnny Johnny carson wasnt just the host of tthe tonight show. Johnny carson was the man that america said good night to, for 30 years. And on my watch, johnny decided that 30 years was a great time to take a bow. And say thank you and good night. 30 years is enough. No, its good time to get out while you are still on top top of your game plan. Johnny carson retiring at the early 90s was a agreement moment where a huge chunk of the ice shelf breaks off. Something that has been there for centuries, for thousands of years, suddenly, is no longer there. Tremendous part of history. And thats lovely to have made your mark on on an era like that. Johnny had told no one what he planned to do, and we werent prepared. And that set off a game of Musical Chairs for who would get the throne. And there only was one latenight throne. Hi, guys. Jay leno had been pretty much carsons regularsubstitute host when he went on vacation. You know whats amazing . Now, thrs this is true. Only six months ago, people were talking about donald trump as a president ial candidate, right . Thats true. Now, since then, hes had an i fair, hes left his wife, hes run up a debt of several minimum dollars. So i guess he is going to be running as a democrat, right . Jay leno wanted to essentially just continue doing a johnnycarsontype show. And David Letterman was the show immediately following carson and they had different styles. Your name . I am going to ask you to turn the cameras off, please. Okay. We just wanted to drop off a basket of fruit. Part of daves thing used to always be attacking authority. He liked that. He needed a corporatebad guy to go up against. I was, oftentimes, that target. I could hear this this Warren Littlefield guy whining all year long about not getting his name on the card last year. I could be on there, couldnt i . It was always lettermans dream to be the host of the tonight show. He idolized Johnny Carson, rightfully so. Big decision thats had the Entertainment Industry buzzing is due this week. That, of course, is the fate of nbcs latenight stars, jay leno, and David Letterman. Most of us thought the person who deserved to get it was David Letterman. He didnt get it. Jay leno got it. Leno, who earlier rode his motorcycle into a News Conference hosted by nbc entertainment president , Warren Littlefield, still has a bruised ego about the way the network wavered in its sporupport for h when we found out that leno was going to get the tonight show, we were all, obviously, depressed. We felt like we were being punished for making fun of them and not cooperating. And not being as collaborative as we could have been. And we, also, felt like we were being disrespected because we did 11 years of great shows. Just how pissed off are you . By all rights, David Letterman should have taken over for Johnny Carson. But his agent took a very, very aggressive stand. Were going to really control all of late night. Its going to cost you a fortune. And they put our backs to the wall. I can only tell you that it has been an honor and a privilege to come into your homes, all these years, and entertain you. And i hope i find something i want to do and i think you will like and come back, that you will be as gracious and inviting into your home as you have been. I bid you a very heartfelt good night. The tonight show, without Johnny Carson as its regular host made its debut last night. Jay leno emerged from behind the curtain. Stepping into the big shoes that were filled for 30 years by johnny. Cbs came to us and made a very attractive offer. Here, we got number ten. Heads, cbs tails. Letterman did place a call to Johnny Carson asking for his advice. And johnny said, if it was me, i would leave. And i think that advice was really the the lynchpin. Letterman always took johnnys advice. The latenight wars are about to begin in earnest on american television. David letterman is now headed for cbs. Cbs had lured him over with a salary morethanfour times that of leno and given him what he really wanted. The 11 30time slot. Now, as dave and jay prepare to go head to head, one thing is clear. Latenight tv will never be quite the same. All of a sudden, there is a talkshow war. Start up your remote controls. The latenight race is about to begin. On monday, David Lettermans new show debuts here, on cbs. Followed a week later, by chevy chase on fox. And a week after that, by koe than obrien on nbc. The tonight show with jay leno, arsenio, and nightline. It became a crowded space and the competition became that much more difficult. The third corner, his ratings fading rapidly. Arsenio hall. Sometv writers think that arsenio could be the big loser in this free for all. When letterman came in, it essentially diluted arsenios brand because there were so many alternatives. Im sad to see you go, because america is going to have a big chunk missing out of it. Losing arsenio. Yeah. It it it was bad. He was the lone voice. Gone. David letterman had the suits at nbc pausing, for a moment. Did we make the right choice . Because he came out gang busters and he was beating jay leno in the ratings. Theres some people who say you blew it. That, by picking leno to replace carson over letterman, that that was a bigprogramming mistake. It was a shaky start. A really, really shaky, firstseason start. Well, its trueconfessions time for actor hugh grant who is trying to put his recent encounter with a hollywood prostitute behind him. When hugh grant was arrested, it was big, liveaction news. Hugh grant was supposed to do the tonight show that night. What the hell were you thinking . It all came together, in that moment, and everyone saw it and thats it. We were never number two, again. For us, it was the fun experience. Hey, we got our own theater. We got an unlimited budget. We have got access to every far in the business who wants to do the show. Somebody, bring me the jaws of life so, i think, going to cbs was heaven sent. It really was. Good night, everybody te. sister we can not be late. brother theres a road right there. brother thats a cat. Wait, just hold madis headpiece. sister no. Seriously . brother his name is whiskers. bride what happened to you . Whose cat is that . brother its a long story. sister oh my gosh. farmer whiskers there you are avo the subaru crosstrek. The adventurous suv for adventurous people. Love. Its what makes subaru, subaru. Ive got the brains youve got the looks lets make lots of money youve got the brawn ive got the brains lets make lots of uh uh uh oohhh theres a lot of opportunities with allstate, drivers who switched saved over 700. Saving is easy when youre in good hands. Allstate click or call to switch today. Allstate i need a lawn. Quick. The fast way to bring it up to speed. Is scotts turf builder rapid grass. It grows two times faster than seed alone for full, green grass. Everything else just seems. Slow. Its lawn season. Lets get to the yard. I think i can. I think i can. I think i can. I think i can. I think. I can. text chime text chime text chime sighs text chime chuckles text chime its the biggest week in television. Watchathon week is your chance to finally watch shows you missed for free. Now you get to talk about them with your friends, no matter what time it is. Say watchathon into your voice remote and watch for free in the mid1990s, if you took a look at the list of the 50 mostwatched shows on cable, the top would be nickelodeon. Rugrats. Blues clues. Dont you know, cartoons will ruin your mind . Ren and stimpy had some very surreal concept to it. And the family audience, really, i mean, because with families having three or four tvs in the house, you had a kid watching nickelodeon. You had the dad watching espn sports. You had the mom watching lifetime. You know, they were in their own, separate universes, watching television. By the time of the 90s, mtv wasnt merely a music channel. They were having Great Success in terms of creating shows, that incorporated music, but that, also, were showed and programs that stood on their own. That was cool. Certainly, Beavis And Butthead established what mtv could be. Because the show is about making fun of music videos just like people in the audience were doing. There is, like, all these bones and vestiges moving around. My manager would call me like, hey, you got this big bump because you were on Beavis And Butthead last night. I sit there just like a doughnut watching these guys. And and and i find them endlessly entertaining because i know, and you know, and the world knows, these guys are always, will be, and cannot be anything but idiots. Thats right. Mtv has a detrimental, damagingdevelopmental effect on the sexuality, morality, on the spirituality, on maybe even the physical development, of our young people. Now, we hit the 90s. And once you can go for an audience of 5 million and have a successful show, you can say, i dont care if the parents dont like this. Can i tell you something, ms. Ellen . Of course, wendy. Dont [ bleep ] with me. What . Stay away from my man, bitch. Trey parker and matt stone were two of the funniest people i ever met. And their Success Story is proof that, if you just stay true to yourself, you dont have to do Anything Else. People think, oh, you came and did this show and now you are big sellouts. The truth is, i mean, we were sellouts, to begin with. Perhaps, there is no stopping the corporate machine. I mean, we were sleeping at friends houses. Had no money. And then, One Fox Executive had seen a cartoon we had made in college. And he said, make me another christmas video that i can send out as a christmas card. And, you know, he gave us, like, 700 bucks and we went and made this fiveminute short. I come seeking retribution. Hes come to kill you because youre jewish, kyle. [ bleep ]. It went around the tv community, like wildfire. I mean, it it was the funniest thing youd ever seen in your life. Somebody showed me the short. I thought it was hysterical. So, i called and said, get them in here right away. Oh, my god. Theyve killed kenny. You bastards south park was able to be topical. South park really, really detests hypocrites. Christians and republicans and nazis, oh my. Well, okay, mrs. Cartman. Ill legalize 40thtrimester abortions for you. Could you imagine back then that these people would ever get on Network Television . Or any kind of television . Its a miracle. South park is a miracle. The early 90s. The hbo shows start to kind of come into their own. Now, van, have i always had these these breasts . A lot of people want freedom. They dont want to go back to the networks, which are saying you can come to us where you will make more money. But youll also have content restricted. You could go to cable, and have no restrictions. Not make as much money, but have freedom of expression. Which almost everybody, who works in these mediums wants. Some of the content, truly, was you cant get this anywhere else. Here at fantasy makers, the only limit on the kinds of fantasies is peoples imagination. Hbo turned to people who had said i cant do that On Television. But you can do it on hbo. White people dont trust black people. Thats why they wont for no black president. Like, A Black Brother Will [ bleep ] the white house. Like the grass wont be cut. Cousins running through the white house. Cookouts. Basketball in the back. In the late 80s, hbo was just sort of gaining ground for series. By the 90s, hbo had started to begin its explosion. When we started doing dream on, one of the things that hbo said to us was, its got to be something that couldnt be on network tv. Because hbo was driven by subscribers, and not by commercials and selling advertising time. They had a different way of looking at success or failure. What they were looking for was critical acclaim. You have watched letterman. Youve watched leno. But what about larry . Larry sanders, that is. He is the tvalter ego of comedian gary chandling. He wanted to do a show that deconstructed the kind of show the tonight show was. Just pretend like you are talking to me so it wont seem weird. Blah, blah, blah, blah. The Larry Sanders show was sort of cathartic because, in the world of the Larry Sanders show, there was a network. You want me to [ bleep ] with your budget . Is that what you want me to do . So, it became this weird, funhouse mirror thing, where you could use stuff from your misery from your career as fodder. Dont take this as a threat but i killed a man like you in korea, hand to hand. My boy doesnt want to do any more commercials. Larry sanders, to me, was, aside from being a brillianttelevision show. Can you say, hey now . It was my everyday life. Im here for three, good reasons. Last show. Big ratings. Movie coming out. Bim, bam, boom. The Larry Sanders show was very unique, in that it was very deadpan. And really groundbreaking, in its day. I think it made people really go, thats the level of work you may be able to do on a cable network. Please, do not flip around. Come right back. Hey, now. Oh, you sound good. Its really as simple as taking the ol power nap once in a while. [brad makes a snoring sound] and cockadoodledooskie wakeywakey. That should clear out the digital cobwebs for a few months or so. Apartmentsdotcom. The most popular place to find a place. Lash impact goes sky high. New lash sensational Sky High Mascara from maybelline new york. Limitless length plus volume. Sensational from every angle. New lash sensational Sky High Mascara. Only from maybelline new york. ac dc Back In Black the bowls are back. At capella university, we know smart comes in many forms. Good boy so we made flexpath the kind of smart that keeps up with you. 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I want to do a tv series that was going to be relevant to teenagers. And its not about the parents, solving the kids problems. Its about the kids, basically, solving their own problems. What are we supposed to do . Sit him down, have a kidtoparent talk . No, you cant talk to parents on that mature level. Tragic, but true. If the 60s had beetle mania, the 90s had 90210 mania. And when tv guide had its youth quake cover, that was a sign that, suddenly, televisions focused on these young people. My socalled life was like the punkrock version of 90210. It was earnest, but not at all saccharine. It didnt have easy answers. It showed teen heartbreak, in a way that was staggeringly real for the time. You like this. Like what . Like, how you are. Hey, jordan, you coming or not . How am i . How how am i . My socalled life was your actual lie. And the idea that everyone in high school is a misfit. That you have this deep insecurity about who youre supposed to be. You know how sometimes the last sentence you said, like, echoes in your brain . And it just keeps sounding stupider. And you have to Say Something else just to make it stop. Oh, i just remembered. I i owe you 30. My socalled life was not necessarily the show that the cheerleader or the captain of the Football Team were watching. They were still watching 90210. But it was the people who, maybe, didnt recognize themselves in 90210. Who felt like, ahha, now, i recognize myself in my socalled life. Exactly. I dont want to be a girl. I just want to hang with girls. Ricky was out on the show, eventually. And that was a story line that was treated with great sensitivity. But i belong nowhere. With no one. That i dont fit. I mean, it was it was so, deeply felt. It was saying to the viewer, things that you have gone through, they matter. Buffy the Vampire Slayer depicted high school in a similar way to my socalled life. Except, rather than just feeling like hell, it actually was hell. Her high school was literally built on top of hell. And so, all of these creatures would come up, that she would have to fight. Three in one night. And it was a brilliant metaphor for adolescents and all the demons that you have to slay. You know, buffy was a teenager and she was still finding out who she was. One of the story lines that was very popular and muchtalked about was where she had sex with her boyfriend for the first time. And then, in, sort of, the world of buffy, he becomes literally evil. There must be some part of you inside that still remembers who you are. In order to save the world, literally, she knows that she has to send him to hell. Buffy knows, in an instant, that angel has become good, again. And so, she has this moment of reckoning that she has to decide whether to do this or not. And she makes the sacrifice to push him back into hell. The show was really working on multiple levels. And in buffy, in particular, we saw a character that was a reluctant protagonist. Forced to make tough decisions. There was a, kind of, opening of the floodgates in the 90s for women. The idea of being an ideal, i think, was kind of smashed through a lot of the characters On Television. Look. If youre a successful saleswoman in this city, you have two choices. You can bang your head against the wall and try and find a relationship, or you can say screw it and just go out and have sex like a man. Sex in the city was a huge success, right from the start. It was very funny, and very clever and very candid. O o are relationships religion of the 90s . They were single and they were sort of feeling their power. Bad waiter . Bad waiter. What do you tip . I wanted these women to be objectifying their men in the way that men had always objectified women. My turn. Oh, sorry. I have to go back to work. You didnt used to be able to discuss sex as sex on network shows. There never were people talking about orgasms or organs or sex. Okay. Words are essential. Tell me exactly how he worded it. Weve been seeing each other for a couple of weeks. I really like you. And tomorrow night, after dinner, i want us to have anal sex. These are women who shared everything with each other. And theyre discussing what anal sex means. If he goes up there, there is going to be a shift in power. Either, hell have the upper hand or you will. And should she do this or not . This is a physical expression that the body was was designed to experience and, ps, its fabulous. What are you talking about . The show took an interesting turn by really focusing on the relationship between the women. And telling the story of them, as really soulmates, together, as well. You did the right thing buying that apartment. You love it, right . Yeah. And you wont be alone forever. Historically, women are often set up in narratives in which only one can succeed. 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That oh my god, all we have to do is just take cameras and put them on people, and well get great stuff. You had, in the next season, l. A. , a young woman who gets an abortion and the camera literally goes right up to the doctors door. By the third season in san francisco, you have a young man who is dealing with aids. Im hiv positive. He told me he is hiv positive. It was just like, no. Not him. Like, i like this guy. And i dont want him to have to suffer. It was such a triumph that pedro had the courage, at his age, to come out as someone with aids. In my small, Gay Community on campus, we all felt like, wow. He was our hero. He falls in love. And he and his partner, sean, have a ceremony. You know . And this is long before samesex marriage was legal. The tv shows werent doing this. Movies werent doing this. I have to believe that all the pain that i am going through, that all the anger, that all the frustration. That, theres something bigger than than than that. Aids has claimed a young man who made an enormous impact on a generation of young americans. Pedro died in miami today at the age of 22. I am really glad i got to know pedro zamora. I am grateful that his rich and fulfilling work is still remembered today. And i hope you enjoy and learn from pedros life of compassion and fearlessness. You have to credit the real world with sort of helping the acceptance of the lgbt community. Because there werent many portrayals of gay people period, you know, On Television at that point. Her name is marla. I am seeing a woman. In the 90s, gay characters were always secondary or third. There was never a gay character that was the lead of a show. [ laughter ] so you want to go look at apartments tomorrow . Great idea. Ellen degeneres the comedian was about to come out as a lesbian. Im on the cover of time. And she does it on time magazine. Yep, im gay. But they decide that the character that Ellen Plays On Tv will also come out. 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I made the decision that i wasnt going to live my life, as a lie anymore. I was i belong with everybody else. And thats what i finally did. We used to say ellen opened the door, and we knocked it down. [ singing ] im gay. Will and grace was a great show, in sort of helping a mainstream, straight community, connect to the Gay Community. I think i can fix this thing with your landlord. But, might get a little ugly. Play hardball, baby. Low and inside. He is crowding the plate and we got to go for sports. Youre losing me. I figured 25 of the country wouldnt watch the show. Just based on the fact that we had two gay men on it. But if we could make believe that Will And Grace would get together. Will, i told you, you live with a heterolong enough, you are going to catch it. Maybe, we could get people to watch, thinking that would happen. Knowing it would never happen. You know, its a shame. An image like this is completely wasted on us. I remember, the network calling everyother week. 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Youre hot when youre like this. 90s Television was the first wave of what we now have, remarkably specific niche programming. Freaks and geeks really sympathized with the losers and had great empathy for its characters. Because you dont see that i got something going right here Freaks And Geeks breaks my heart every time i think about it. Im sorry. Did i crush your twinkies . It lasted 18 episodes. And theyre perfect 18 episodes but nbc hated it so much. Roll down the windows because i got a big one abrewing. Oh, no, please dont. They thought it was a show by losers, about losers, for losers. They hated it. They wanted no part of it. They killed it. At the end of the 90s, the jig is starting to be up for the networks. Basically, quality migrates to cable. Oz comes on in 97. And its set in this fictional penitentiary. Wow. What a strange show that was. In oz, sometimes the things you cant touch are more real than the things you can. For instance, fear, hatred, loneliness are more real to me than a shank and a soul. It was jawdroppingly violent. It was a mens prison. It probably should be. But you know, it kind of announces the idea that hbo is going to get serious about doing scripted dramas. Its finished. Its over. But hbo really in my mind comes into its own in 1999 with the sopranos. Woke up this morning got yourself a gun sopranos just is one of those shows that was a benchmark change. It changed a lot of things for everybody. Throw out the handbook. Tony soprano, the lead actor in a drama, he killed a man. We watched him. He took his daughter on a college tour. Pretty, huh . Yeah. It was just a melding of a guy and a world what the [ bleep ] you doing . What the [ bleep ] you doing . And a behavior that promoted all the feelings that you would have for a guy that you love in a guy that you hate. You know . 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, carmela, how much we love him. Hes the best. Oh, come on. Hes 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. The 90s is an amazing decade of tv. 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 and farther, and they were great. Because there was so many channels and because so much storytelling was going on, you started to get more variety of stories being told. Get the skull film, schedule a c. A. T. Scan, and call the neurosurgery resident. ObjectiOn Television showed us women in their depth. It began to show us much more of a range of the africanamerican community. Im always here for you. We started focusing on teenagers in a more realistic way. Things change, dawson, evolve. What are you talking about . Had you thinking a little more Outside The Box in terms of what people might want to watch. Youre out of order, hes out of order. This whole trial is sexy. After ten years of the 90s, we had a whole new Television World that could take us anyplace we wanted and even places we had never imagined. Was that the oven timer . Thats right, my friend. Its time for baywatch can you believe they gave stephanie skin cancer . I still cant believe they promoted her to lieutenant. Youre just saying that because youre in love with Yasmine Bleeth. How could anyone not be in love with Yasmine Bleeth . Hey, hey, theyre running. See . This is the brilliance of the show. I say always keep them running. All the time running. Run. Run. Run, yasmine, run like the wind hello and welcome, everyone. Im michael holmes. Coming up on cnn newsroom, from travel to sporting events the u. S. Looks like a gradual return to prepandemic life. While in india, however, the covid crisis nothing short of a nightmare. Oxygen and vaccines in short supply. And then later in the program, on the long journey home. Four astronauts on their way back to earth this hour after a recordbreaking mission