Television category: 3830 books
by Irina Souch
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
This book is an exploration of the changes in Russian cultural identity in the twenty years after the fall of the Soviet state. Through close readings of a select number of contemporary Russian films and television series, Irina Souch investigates how a variety of popular cultural tropes ranging from...
by Richard Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1981
The Andy Griffith Show was one of the most successful series in television history. It ranked among the top ten shows in the nation during each of its eight prime-time seasons, from 1960 to 1968. Over forty years later, the 249 episodes still remain some of the most frequently watched syndicated shows...
by Nick Salvato
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Airing on CBS for fourteen seasons (1979–93), Knots Landing was a spinoff of the popular drama Dallas, but ultimately ran longer and took a very different tone on domestic, social, and economic issues than its predecssor. In the first full-length scholarly study of Knots Landing, Nick Salvato situates...
by Mark A. Altman, Edward Gross
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
From the bestselling authors of the critically acclaimed two-volume series The Fifty-Year Mission, comes Slayers & Vampires: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Buffy The Vampire Slayer & Angel.
Two decades after its groundbreaking debut, millions of fans worldwide...
TV Formats Worldwide
Localizing Global Programs
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
Beginning around 2003, television studies has seen the growth of interest in the genre of reality shows. However, concentrating on this genre has tended to sideline the even more significant emergence of the program format as a central mode of business and culture in the new television landscape....
by Dennis Bjorklund
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
"Cheers TV Show: A Comprehensive Reference" is authored by a sitcom expert who penned the most comprehensive reference book that has ever been written about the show. This definitive guide is the best resource for any fan who is intrigued and enthralled by one of the all-time classic television...
Film Stars' Television Projects
Pilots and Series of 50+ Movie Greats, 1948-1985
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Bette Davis as a madam. Orson Welles hosting The Twilight Zone. Mae West voicing a cartoon character. Shirley Temple playing a social worker. While Hollywood stars like Lucille Ball, Loretta Young and Donna Reed successfully transitioned to television in its early days, many others tried and failed...
by Donna Marie Nowak
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Fabulous and often funky television mystery and detective series were as big a part of the 1970s as feathered hair, leisure suits, lava lamps, and bell bottom jeans. Remember The Rockford Files, Columbo, Charlie’s Angels, and Hart to Hart? Baby boomers rejoice: the histories behind the mysteries...
Head of Drama
The Memoir of Sydney Newman
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The memoir of the creator of Doctor Who and a legend in British and Canadian TV and film
A major influence on the BBC and independent television in Britain in the 1960s, as well as on CBC and the National Film Board in Canada, Sydney Newman acted as head of drama at a key period in the history...
The Odd Couple on Stage and Screen
A History with Cast and Crew Profiles and an Episode Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
Inspired by the real life post-divorce experiences of television comedy writer Danny Simon, The Odd Couple has touched multiple generations of fans. Playwright Neil Simon embellished his brother Danny’s pseudo-sitcom situation and created an oil-and-water twosome with memorable characters showcasing...
Satire TV
Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Satirical TV has become mandatory viewing for citizens wishing to make sense of the bizarre contemporary state of political life. Shifts in industry economics and audience tastes have re-made television comedy, once considered a wasteland of escapist humor, into what is arguably the most popular source...
by Vincent Terrace
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This reference work, the most complete guide to aired and unaired television pilot films ever published (or made available in any way), contains 5,190 alphabetically arranged programs, each with storyline information, performer and character cast listings, producers, air dates (where applicable),...
The 'Doctor Who' Handbook Vol 2
The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Production of 'Doctor Who'
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Everything you ever wanted to know about the cult BBC Television series Doctor Who (1963-1996).
On their first publication, the Doctor Who Handbooks were hailed as the best look behind the scenes of the BBC’s cult science fiction show Doctor Who. Now collected in two revised and updated...
The 'Doctor Who' Handbook Vol 1
The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Production of 'Doctor Who'
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Everything you ever wanted to know about the cult BBC Television series Doctor Who (1963-1996).
On their first publication, the Doctor Who Handbooks were hailed as the best look behind the scenes of the BBC’s cult science fiction show Doctor Who. Now collected in two revised and updated...