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 in the evening 9 out of 10 People were watching only one of three networks. Social critics are mystified by its success. What is it . Its television Prime Time potboiler, dallas. Itll ruin our family name. I assure you a thought like that never crossed my mind. Brother or no brother, whatever it takes ill stop you from destroying in oil. Dallas 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, Jr Ewing as a pop fe phenomenon. He was such a delicious villain, everyone was completely enamored by this character. At this point so many People were watching television that you could do something so unexpected that it would become news overnight. Whos there . The national obsession in 1980 ar
They know when it hits the bottom, itll be 1990. Goodbye to the 80s In ten, nine, eight, eight, eight, eight oh, will this horrible year never end . When the 90s began, we are starting to see a lot of experimentation. Seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. 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 were such a warm, safe, humor. I love you guys. 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 k
Back on earth. The Crew Members of Inspiration 4 are home after their historic threeday mission. Live from cnn center, this is Cnn Newsroom with Robyn Curnow. A chilling warning from the cia came too late to stop a u. S. Air strike that killed ten afghan civilians last month. According to three sources, the Intelligence Agency warned there were likely civilians in the area, possibly children, just seconds before this missile found its target. This is what they were looking at. The military hit the toyota following a Suicide Bombing that killed 13 u. S. Troops and scores of afghans racing to evacuate at the Kabul Airport. But the pentagon now admits that No One in this car was linked to isisk. The taliban are condemning the u. S. Strike despite their own history of killing civilians. Heres what a spokesperson for the militants told cnn. It is great to see that they got the courage to confess the truth. But they didnt do so for the last 20 years. They targeted thousands of women, childre
Crew members of Inspiration 4 Return Home after their historic threeday mission. A warning from the cia came too late to stop a u. S. Air strike that killed ten afghan civilians last month. According to three sources, the Intelligence Agency warned there were likely civilians in the area and possibly children just seconds before the missile hit. The strike followed a Suicide Bombing that killed 13 u. S. Troops and scores of afghans at the kabul airport, but the pentagon now admit is No One in the car was linked to isisk, calling the Air Strike a mistake. Cnns Nic Robertson has been speaking to the relatives of those killed and he filed this report from kabul. This is a lot of children this is part of the children up here . Reporter yeah. Ahmaudi shows me his shattered house. Reporter its heartbreaking now to see this now and know that they say it was just a mistake. No one has had the heart to clean it up since the Drone Strike three weeks ago. My cute daughter that died, she was so li
By the thousands with hundreds more massing on the rio grande river, preparing to enter the u. S. Illegally, and the biden administration in Damage Control Mode after the Defense Department admits thAt The Drone Strike last month killed ten civilians, not isisk terrorists. Arthel Bill Melugin on The Border in Del Rio, texas. But first, the Gabby Petito case. Lauren green on the search for the missing 22yearold with, and now to Charles Watson live in northport, florida, with the Deepingenning Mystery deepening mystery. Reporter theres no shortage of twists and turns when it comes to this story. Youve got a search for Gabby Petito out west, and now investigators in northport, florida, searching for her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, as investigators fear he could be in danger after going missing for days. We just heard from the northport Police Department a short time ago who tell us about 50 officers including Fbi Agents are on the ground conducting a search of a 25,000 acre wooded area kno