Television category: 3830 books
Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes
A Narrative Ecosystem Framework
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes provides a new framework—the metaphor of the narrative ecosystem—for the analysis of serial television narratives. Contributors use this metaphor to address the ever-expanding and evolving structure of narratives far beyond their usual spatial and...
by Dick Van Dyke
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
A heartfelt memoir from one of Hollywood's greatest icons
Dick Van Dyke, indisputably one of the greats of the golden age of television, is admired and beloved by audiences the world over for his beaming smile, his physical dexterity, his impeccable comic timing, his ridiculous stunts, and...
Untied
A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
“I remember Sarah asking me, when I’d just begun therapy with her, what I looked for in a man. After a few moments of silent, tense deliberation I had it. ‘Hair,’ I blurted. ‘He has to have hair.’”
Meredith Baxter is a beloved and iconic television actress, most well-known for...
Andy and Don
The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, this “humorous, informative, and poignant book” celebrates the powerful real-life friendship behind one of America’s most iconic television programs and “shows how the magic was created” (Library Journal).
Andy Griffith...
Letterman
The Last Giant of Late Night
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman delivers the definitive story of the life and artistic legacy of David Letterman, the greatest television talk show host of all time and the signature comedic voice of a generation.
In a career spanning more than thirty years, David Letterman redefined...
Joss Whedon
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
From the cult favorite Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which netted four million viewers per episode, to the summer blockbuster The Avengers, which amassed a box office of $1.5 billion, Joss Whedon has made a name for himself in Hollywood for his penchant for telling meaningful, personal tales about love,...
The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams
The Complete, Uncensored, and Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This is the true story behind the making of a television legend. There have been many books written about Star Trek, but never with the unprecedented access, insight and candor of authors Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross. Having covered the franchise for over three decades, they’ve assembled the...
Three Blind Mice
How the TV Networks Lost Their Way
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
What happened to network television in the 1980s? How did CBS, NBC, and ABC lose a third of their audience and more than half of their annual profits?
Ken Auletta, author of Greed and Glory on Wall Street, tells the gripping story of the decline of the networks in this epically scaled work...
Fahrenheit 451
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.
Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.
Guy...
To Die For: A Novel
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Determined to realize her dream of television glory, a fame-obsessed weather reporter conspires to murder her husband
Local weather reporter Suzanne Maretto wants nothing more than to transcend life at her suburban television news station. Unrelentingly perky and ruthlessly ambitious, she dreams...
The War for Late Night
When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
A dramatic account of the politics and personalities behind NBC's calamitous attempt to reinvent late-night television.
When NBC decided to move Jay Leno into prime time to make room for Conan O'Brien to host the Tonight show-a job he had been promised five years earlier-skeptics anticipated...
by Kelsey Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
A Mental Floss Best Book of 2018
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An InStyle 10 Books You Won't Be Able to Put Down This October
**SIX FRIENDS THAT BECAME A FAMILY.
A TELEVISION SHOW THAT BECAME A PHENOMENON.**
Today, Friends is remembered as an icon of ’90s comedy...
The Colorblind Screen
Television in Post-Racial America
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The election of President Barack Obama signaled for many the realization of a post-racial America, a nation in which racism was no longer a defining social, cultural, and political issue. While many Americans espouse a “colorblind” racial ideology and publicly endorse the broad goals of integration...
The TV Writer's Workbook
A Creative Approach To Television Scripts
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
Why is TV writing different from any other kind of writing? How will writing a spec script open doors? What do I have to do to get a job writing for TV? Writing for television is a business. And, like any business, there are proven strategies for success. In this unique hands-on guide, television...