Introduction

Ryan Ang Lee: We accidentally begin a sort of mini-series, if you like. The one TV show that we focused the whole episode on was Mad Men and we are in the next episode going to talk about Breaking Bad. He says those two shows are sometimes aligned with the period in American television known as Peak TV. Ryan Ang Lee: This was seen as... This was when this was after Survivor. It was also a little ... I don't know precisely if there's a 9-11 thing here,. But they saw their numbers were incredible because every other station was covering what it happened.