Legendary producer of ODAAT, TheNormanLear, joins ScottFeinberg on the latest episode of AwardsChatter. Listen:
. By 1976, he had eight shows simultaneously on the air, six in the top 10 of the ratings, all about subjects "in our American lives that the writers and directors who preceded me decided not to touch," he explains. "They left the Dictionary of problems that American families either faced themselves or saw up the street, down the street or across the street from them. We never touched a subject that was that foreign to everybody who was watching.
In the eighties, Lear walked away from TV to focus on film producing and philanthropy. But he was lured back in the 21st century after someone suggested to his business partnercould be rebooted, only now with the single mom at its center turned into a Cuban-American veteran. "I said, 'That's a great idea,'" Lear recalls, noting that he was also pleased to be able to represent fellow senior citizens on the show, in the form of EGOT-winner. "That was important, too.
In the meantime, Lear had plenty else to keep him busy, including the ABC special, which featured a word-for-word reenactment of episodes of, filmed live in front of a studio audience. He explains, "Jimmy Kimmel is the guy who called and said, 'Would you like to do this?' 'Yeah, I'd love to do it!' It was his idea. He got the time on ABC.
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