Television category: 3830 books
by Aled Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Aled Jones was a choirboy with a remarkable voice, whose prodigious talent propelled him to international stardom. Before he was sixteen, he had already sold more than six million records and had become a fixture on television and radio. He has worked alongside such greats as Leonard Bernstein, Andrew...
Sundays at Eight
25 Years of Stories from C-SPAN'S Q&A and Booknotes
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
For the last 25 years, Sunday nights at 8pm on C-SPAN has been appointment television for many Americans. During that time, host Brian Lamb has invited people to his Capitol Hill studio for hour-long conversations about contemporary society and history. In today's soundbite culture that hour remains...
Project Runway
The Show That Changed Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Project Runway, the groundbreaking reality television series, premiered in 2004. Ten seasons into its run comes the official guide behind the scenes of a television and fashion landmark. In this book, fully illustrated with hundreds of photos, fans will learn how the show began and developed over...
The Ad Makers
How the Best TV Commercials are Produced
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The Ad-Makers looks at the cinematic form where commerce and creativity collide most dramatically: the TV commercial.
Featuring interviews from top professionals in the field, the book provides the kind of behind-the-scenes expertise that it usually takes a lifetime of professional practice...
Coffee at Luke's
An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
In the fall of 2000, “Gilmore Girls” premiered on the WB and viewers were introduced to the quirky world of Stars Hollow and the Gilmores who had made it their home, mother-daughter best friends Lorelai and Rory Gilmore. With the show in its seventh season on the fledgling CW, Coffee at Luke's is...
Breaking Bad
Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Breaking Bad*: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series*, edited by David P. Pierson, explores the contexts, politics, and style of AMC's original series Breaking Bad. The book's first section locates and addresses the series from several contemporary...
by Terry J. Erdmann, Paula M. Block
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
A visual compilation of all 88 trading cards for Star Trek fans and collectors of TV memorabilia!
Since Star Trek first aired on television in 1966, the series has had an incredible influence on pop culture. In 1976, with the show’s rising popularity in syndication, the Topps Company released...
Kids Rule!
Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
In Kids Rule! Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the cable network Nickelodeon in order to rethink the relationship between children, media, citizenship, and consumerism. Nickelodeon is arguably the most commercially successful cable network ever. Broadcasting original programs such as Dora the Explorer,...
by Joel Daly
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Joel Daly is a Chicago icon. *He was a television news reporter. In that role he interviewed the likes of Martin Luther King Jr., Governor George Wallace, accused murderer (and inspiration for “The Fugitive”) Sam Sheppard, and even the Beatles. *He was a television news anchor. In that role he helped...
by Dana Polan
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
Julia Child’s TV show, The French Chef, was extraordinarily popular during its broadcast from 1963 until 1973. Child became a cultural icon in the 1960s, and, in the years since, she and her show have remained enduring influences on American cooking, American television, and American culture. In...
by Barbara Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2006
“I look for zebras because other doctors have ruled out all the horses.” — Dr. Gregory House Medical students are taught that when they hear hoofbeats they should think horses not zebras but Dr. House’s unique talent of diagnosing unusual illnesses has made House M.D. one of the most popular...
by Wynn Wheldon
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Today the very nature of the BBC is being called into question, its future uncertain. But for legendary BBC broadcaster Huw Wheldon—a remarkable man who devoted his life to his country, his family and the public—its unwavering purpose was clear: to make the good popular and the popular good.
With...
Monologue
What Makes America Laugh Before Bed
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
"Jon Macks is one of the greatest comedy writers of all time."—Chris Rock
A hilarious, revealing look behind the history and culture of American late-night TV, by a longtime comedy writer for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Ever since Johnny Carson first popularized the late-night...
by Melissa McCarty
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Today the host of ORA TV’s Newsbreaker, and now calling Larry King her boss, Melissa McCarty worked her way up through the trenches of live television news. But she was also running away from her past, one of growing up in the roughest of neighborhoods, watching so many she knew—including her...