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TMC · 05-22-2024, 09:51 PM

Norman Lear explained the difference between television in the seventies and the eighties

"I think most people are nostalgic for something they've never known."

TMC · 01-24-2025, 05:22 PM

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Norman Lear was the most influential producer in TV history. But all the change he brought to the industry came with left wing politics. 50 years after All in the Family, Hollywood is now a woke bubble that focuses on race and sex more than anything else. And it was Norman Lear who started it all.

TMC · 03-24-2026, 09:04 PM

Early in his television career, Norman Lear admitted he wasn't being honest with himself

"If we couldn't make a story entertaining, we would not do the story. But I didn't feel the obligation was to make an audience laugh only."

05-22-2024, 09:51 PM	#16
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 124,387	Norman Lear explained the difference between television in the seventies and the eighties "I think most people are nostalgic for something they've never known."

03-24-2026, 09:04 PM	#18
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 124,387	Early in his television career, Norman Lear admitted he wasn't being honest with himself "If we couldn't make a story entertaining, we would not do the story. But I didn't feel the obligation was to make an audience laugh only."