''The 2000s'' is a

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which premiered on July 8, 2018, on

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. Produced by

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and

Gary Goetzman Gary Michael Goetzman (born November 6, 1952) is an American film and television producer and actor, and co-founder of the production company Playtone with actor Tom Hanks. Life and career Born in Los Angeles, Goetzman began his career as a ch ...

's studio

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, the 7-part series chronicles events and

popular culture Popular culture (also called pop culture or mass culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of cultural practice, practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art

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or mass art, sometimes contraste ...

of the United States during the

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. It serves as a follow-up to the predecessors ''

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'', '' The Seventies'', '' The Eighties'', and '' The Nineties''. CNN greenlit the series in May 2016.

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