not if there was a funny idea. what is wrong with you? there s so much different storytelling and so many different stories being told about so many different people. i don t think dramatic series television has ever been stronger. there s no longer this theory of what popular entertainment must be. incoming! who are the heroes? the people who watch this show. this is the week when the major broadcast networks unveil their fall lineup of shows. and every executive in hollywood knows how well the sopranos is doing on cable, which is a network problem. i think hbo altered everything for this reason alone, is there were no commercials. we are dependent on sponsors. there is so much we can do in terms of language, in terms of violence, in terms of sex. to a large degree, a lot of executives were just sanding off the edges of what was interesting. i think hbo is looking at the world and going, okay, how can we matter? for quite a long
there s no longer this theory of what popular entertainment must be. incoming! who are the heroes? the people who watch this show. this is the week when the major broadcast networks unveil their fall lineup of shows. and every executive in hollywood knows how well the sopranos is doing on cable, which is a network problem. i think hbo altered everything for this reason alone, is there were no commercials. we are dependent on sponsors. there s so much we can do in terms of language, in terms of violence, in terms of sex. to a large degree, a lot of executives were just sanding off the edges of what was interesting. i think hbo is looking at the world and going, okay, how can we matter? for quite a long time, movies and boxing were the bread and butter of hbo. people watch a show because you re partly a [ bleep ]. i think what we learned through shows like the larry sanders show or oz is that we could do serious television. there s somethin
- what ever happened to gary cooper? the strong, silent type? that was an american. he wasn t in touch with his feelings. he just did what he had to do. see see, what they didn t know was, once they got gary cooper in touch with his feelings, that they wouldn t be able to shut him up! and then it s dysfunction this and dysfunction that and dysfunction va fangoul! - you have strong feelings about this. - every decade, you get somebody like peter falk as columbo or carroll o connor as archie bunker somebody you just can t imagine anybody else afterwards. and james gandolfini is that in tony soprano. - i think it s supposed to be a mafia story, but, i mean, it s like i said, it s - it s also about everyday life. - did you know that an italian invented the telephone? - alexander graham bell was italian? - you see? you see what i m talking antonio meucci invented the telephone, and he got robbed! everybody knows that. - who invented the mafia? - what? - the sopranos kind of t
new york times report that claims the president made derogatory statements about immigrants behind closed doors. later, a sunday sitdown with the star of the hottest show of 2017. elizabeth moss broke through a decade ago as peggy olson on mad men. now she s cleaning up the best actress awards for her leading role in the best-talked about drama the handmaid s tale. you try to make an entertaining television show, you know. and sometimes that s all it is. but when you can do something that you also feel passionately about and also hits upon things that feel very personal to you, it s that much more gratifying. a sunday sitdown with elizabeth moss. plus, smith a bit later in the show. let s begin this morning with a major winter storm bearing down on nearly 60 million people from washington state all the way across to maine and just in time for christmas. if you re traveling today or tomorrow, be prepared for big delays on the roads and in the skies. dave price fr
knew? correct. where would it lead? a twisted case of betrayal and greed. the finger is being pointed at me. her own daughter, a suspect from the start. you pull the knife out and you tell the police, oh, you re going to find my fingerprints on the knife. her son-in-law, who seemed so devoted. they interrogated us for eight hours. or maybe someone else with a million dollar motive? what s going on here? how many people are involved in this? devious. it s an evil mind. what pushed you this far? i m lester holt, and this is dateline. someone just doesn t turn into a murderer. here s josh mankiewicz with the evil to come. reporter: it was hard to look away when peggy was in the picture. her beauty was captivating, but she was also smart, ambitious, and she loved that little girl. peggy nadell s image survives in home movies and in memory from the days when she was relishing motherhood blissfully unaware of the evil to come. i was always close