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'American Idol' was an extremely expensive show.
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American Idol
Expensive
Idol
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'Prison Break' on Netflix has generated a whole new generation of viewers.
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New Generation
Prison
Prison Break
Viewers
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I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.
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Entertainment
Seamless
Social
Social Issues
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It's hard to tell why something touches a zeitgeist and when that same show doesn't in other places.
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Zeitgeist
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As a woman in this organization, I can say that I don't ever feel that I was discriminated against or prevented from opportunities.
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Discriminated
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When Calista Flockhart read for 'Ally McBeal', I saw this perfect chemistry between the words on the page and the person who would embody that character.
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Chemistry
Ally
Embody
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What differentiates leaders is the ability to recover following a mistake. I make mistakes all the time, but I cop to them, apologize, and move on. Contrition is powerful.
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Contrition
Cop
Following
Mistake
Powerful
Apologize
Move On
Recover
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To be a great creator, you have to be vulnerable. You're creating characters that have a little bit of yourself in them... And you want to know it's a safe environment for that.
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Creator
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When I was little, my parents took away candy except on the weekends. So I'd rush out of my room at 5:00 A.M. on Saturday and sit in front of the TV, jamming my face with candy.
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Candy
Saturday
Tv
Except
Front
Jamming
Room
Rush
Took
Weekends
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A director has to be on the set when the crew is called and is the last one to leave at night. I'm not saying it's not possible, but that's partly why we're not seeing more women.
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Crew
Partly
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When I got the first e-mail suggesting we cast Zooey Deschanel in 'New Girl', I thought, 'That's exactly right.' In the pilot of 'Modern Family', when Cam is holding up the baby with the 'Lion King' theme, it was very clear we had something special.
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Lion King
Modern Family
Something Special
Suggesting
Theme
Cam
Holding
Lion
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My mother had no interest in cartoons. I remember thinking, 'I am never going to grow into that person.' Which is so ironic - now I get to work on 'Family Guy' and 'The Simpsons' and 'Futurama', all of these great animated series! TV was my passion.
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Animated
Family Guy
Ironic
Family Work Great
Cartoons
No Interest
Simpsons
The Simpsons
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In 1995, I had been chosen to make a short presentation about the state of the TV business at a company retreat in Santa Barbara. At the time, I felt we were not real competitors in network television. The studio wasn't prolific; we didn't have much of a brand.
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Chosen
Competitors
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Retreat
Santa
Time Business Real
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We are providing a platform to creators who are expressing their emotions; they are expressing what they are feeling - fears, joys, terror. That's what art is about, and we don't want to censor it, but neither would we permit violence which feels gratuitous or glorified to be on our platform.
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Providing
Terror
Violence
Censor
Creators
Emotions
Expressing
Fears
Feeling
Glorified
Gratuitous
Joys
Neither
Platform
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Our news is Fox News. It's a cable channel and has nothing to do, frankly, with the entertainment area of the company. It's the model of how this company was launched, and there are a lot of independent stations and Fox O&Os who have hugely successful news that our programming is the lead-in for.
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Fox News
Programming
Stations
Cable
Channel
Fox
Hugely
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It's no longer permissible to have sexist comments, but growing up in this industry, I spent time in many other organizations where it was just commonplace for men to talk about how a woman looks or give a woman a little bit of a harder time in a meeting and then say, 'I'm just joking - it's because I care about you.'
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Commonplace
Sexist
Comments
Organizations
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The development process is not that simple... When I started working at Fox in '92, the company had decided that dramas were dead: they weren't viable businesses and because newsmagazines were so efficient to produce and financially so much more tolerable than a drama. So that year, our company developed very few dramas.
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Tolerable
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You have to develop a broad range of projects. One thing we've seen with 'This Is Us' is that people want to escape a little bit into the lives of others with beautiful emotional storylines where a country that needs a good cry can have one without seeming crazy. So I would say my real takeaway is that we should all be pushing for extreme emotion.
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Cry
Pushing
Range
Seeming
Extreme
Good Beautiful People
Broad
Escape
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