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
is covid. 2021 began with a vaccine rollout, still has ended as the deadliest year of the pandemic and misinformation has proven dangerous to people s health. we have been talking to dr. fauci across the pandemic learning about his guidance and what to do if the facts change and new variants emerge. the best way you can prevent the virus from evolving and mutating is to prevent it from replicating because it is an interesting tenet of virology. the only way a virus can mutate is if you allow it to replicate. so when you have a lot of infection in your country, when you re getting 3 to 400,000 new infections a day, the virus has an open playing field to replicate so much that it starts to mutate. that s when you get the dangerous mutations. so one of the best ways to prevent that from happening in this country is to double down on the public health measures to prevent the virus from going from one person to another. the masking, the distancing, the avoiding congregate settin
do that. people are no longer embarrassed to watch televtelev. we have seen the news and it s us. slowly but surely the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be pupon us. as we begin the 80s. nine out of ten people were watching only one of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it. what is it? it s television s primetime prairie pot boiler of dallas. a move like that will destroy all of you and ruin our family name. brothers or no brothers, whatever it takes, i will stop you. dallas, the one hour show that captivated america for 13 years. dallas rooted in the 1970s. this character, jr as a pop phen phenomenal. tell me which you will be staying with tonight. whatever it is, it s much more delicious than the i am looking at now. you could do something so unexpected that it would become news over night. [ gunshot ] . the national obsession around who shot jr is hard to imagine how obsessed we were with that question but we were
slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. and what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! as we began the 80s in the television world, the landscape was on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people watching only one of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? it s television s prime time prairie potboiler dallas. a move like that will destroy all of ewing oil and ruin our family name! i assure you, a thought like that never crossed my mind. brother or no brother, whatever it takes, i ll stop you from destroying ewing oil. dallas really did establish new ground in terms of a weekly one-hour show that literally captivated america for 13 years. dallas is a television show which in some ways is rooted in the 1970s. and one of the crazy things that emerges is this character, j.r. ewing, as a pop phenomenon. tell me, j.r., which slut are you go
russia has the ability to invade ukraine imminently but it may still opt for a diplomatic solution. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. queen elizabeth is marking the 70th anniversary of her reign a milestone never before reached by a british monarch. her reign began on this day in 1952, but she is now looking to the future, saying in a statement that she d like camilla, the duchess of cornwall, to be known as queen consort, when prince charles becomes king. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell has this first report. i look forward to continuing to serve you with all my heart, so says the queen in her accession day message. on this day when she marks the 70th anniversary of the moment she came to the throne, it s clear that her commitment remains undimmed by the passage of years. and with that message, a glimpse from buckingham palace of the unseen work of the monarch, the paperwork which comes every day in the official red boxes a rout