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This history of public television over the last twenty years shows how powerful political actors and the budget process in the United States have severely restricted the strategic behavior and programming of public TV.

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The origins of, and in many ways the prototype for, modern reality programming can be traced to Real People, a show which focused on average individuals, primarily Americans, and applauded their individuality. This book provides an examination of Real People, why it succeeded, and what implications it had for future television programming.

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Reality programminga broad title for unscripted shows that involve non-actorsis really an updated version of a classic television genre that had its first successes decades before The Real World or Survivor made their premieres.

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This volume chronicles and examines all aspects of the writing career of Richard Matheson, including thematic concerns, authorial techniques, and genre tropes, as well as the influence on contemporaries and later writers.

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The story of the comedy double-act, Cannon & Ball, which tells of the ups and downs of their career and the changes in their lives when they both became Christians.

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A chronological and detailed survey of American science fiction series from the 1950s to the present day, this reference traces the development of the genre as a distinct cultural phenomenon within the context of broader developments in American culture as a whole.

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Stargate-1s original run overlapped the peak and aftermath of the Science Wars, which allowed for the show to engage questions about the nature of science and technology. This book focuses on how the series depicted science (as an enterprise) and scientists at a time when the Science Wars were raging and the nature of both was sharply contested.

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Includes articles on the show by Geoffrey O'Brien and Bill Wyman, and a selection of essays by television scholars in the US - looking at issues of Seinfeld's Jewishness, alleged nihilism, food obsession, and long-running syndication. This work covers a comprehensive episode guide, and Betty Lee's lexicon of Seinfeld language.

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A series of three-hour-long linked plays for BBC2 plus two shorter plays

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"Explores how society has perceived and valued the market economy and capitalism through TV series in the 21st century"--

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Other children had imaginary friends; I had a fictional mother, a siren from the southern hemisphere.

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The Simpsons is the world's most popular entertainment phenomenon, regularly voted on both sides of the Atlantic as the best TV show ever made.

Simpsons Confidential is the uncensored, unauthorised oral history of the show from the people who made it happen.

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This is a collection of interviews with writers, creators, and show runners of some of the greatest sitcoms of all time, including The Honeymooners, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Cheers, Seinfeld, Frasier, and The Simpsons. The writers discuss their experiences working on some of the most popularnot to mention funniestshows ever.

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This guide provides biographical essays, complete with bibliographies, on 100 of the best-known and loved British actors and actresses. Not only are serious dramatic actors and actresses to be found here, but also the great comedy stars, including Benny Hill and John Inman.

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This collection interrogates how sound/image aesthetics can enhance our critical appreciation of television, with reference to a range of television programming, including episodic series and serial dramas, sitcoms, science fiction, animation, horror, thrillers and period dramas.

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Sports dominate the television landscape, and the demand for more is so great that pay and cable networks continue to find funding and success, even when devoted exclusively to a single sport. This title covers the changing relationship between live sports broadcasts and television dramas.

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For half a century, television spies have been trained professionals, reluctant heroes, housewives, businessmen, criminals, and comedians.

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This book deals with a wide range of 'high-end', expensive and high concept, TV dramas from the UK and the USA and analyses the compositional principles of texts (technologies, institutions, economics, cultrual trends). Drama examined include Oz, Buried Carnivale, Blackpool, The Sopranos, Shameless, and Shooting the Past. -- .