Disrupting TV’s Status Quo

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🗓️ 16 October 2014

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Famed producer Norman Lear on developing groundbreaking sitcoms, managing creative partnerships and the lessons he wants to pass on to the next generation.

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0:33.0	I'm Allison Beard.
0:34.5	I'm here today with renowned television producer Norman Lear.
0:38.0	He has a new autobiography out.
0:40.0	Even this I get to experience.
0:42.3	Mr Lear, thanks so much for joining me.
0:44.4	My pleasure.
0:45.8	Your shows have always been described as groundbreaking.
0:48.4	Did you set out to disrupt the status quo of TV?
0:52.4	I never thought of anything as groundbreaking in the sense that every
0:57.8	America understood so easily what it was all about because every American was living with it.
1:05.0	Every American kid, the language was, you know, in their school yards.
1:11.0	The issues were around their dinner table. It was nothing new. But it was
1:17.8	nothing that had been on television before. No, isn't that amazing? You know, I've often said, and I probably said in the book,
1:25.0	before, all in the family,
1:28.0	there were lots of families on television,
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