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Airdate: The Nineties

Doco series on the '90s begins looking at TV including Buffy, 90210, Sopranos, Seinfeld, Friends & more.

Documentary series The Nineties will premiere this Sunday on SBS.

The 8 part series screens with double episodes and kicks off with two looking at TV through the 90s.

Executive produced by multiple Emmy Award-winning producers Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman (John Adams and The Pacific) and Emmy Award-winning producer Mark Herzog (Gettysburg), The Nineties goes back to the presidencies of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, technological triumphs and terrorist tragedies, the grunge revolution and hip hop’s ascendance to the mainstream, interracial conflict in Los Angeles to New York and all points in between, and the ground-breaking and genre-bending new era of television that provided a window into the decade that set the stage for the way we live today.

Season One, Episode One: Television Part 1
In television the 1990s was a decade of the fantastic (Twin Peaks, X-Files) and the familiar (sitcoms like Seinfeld, Friends, Frasier, Everybody Loves Raymond). The gang at Cheers hoisted their last drink but the doctors at ER began to save lives. The Simpsons got a show of their own while Beavis and Butthead lived in a world of their own. Storylines got younger (Freaks and Geeks, My So-Called Life, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Beverly Hills 90210) and formats more daring (Northern Exposure, The Larry Sanders Show, The Daily Show).

Episode Two: Television Part 2
Johnny Carson signed off and Jay and Dave duked it out to see who would sign on. The news became increasingly sensationalised (the OJ Simpson trial) and even tawdry (the Monica Lewinsky scandal). At the end of the decade HBO hinted at where television was headed with Sex and the City and The Sopranos.

Sunday, 5 November at 8.30pm on SBS

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