Category: Television

All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire®

By: Abrams, Jonathan

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Crown : February 2019

Seller ID: 760960

ISBN-13: 9780451498151

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The definitive oral history of the iconic and beloved TV show The Wire, as told by the actors, writers, directors, and others involved in its creation. Since its final episode aired in 2008, HBO's acclaimed crime drama The Wire has only become more popular and influential. The issues it tackled, from the failures of the drug war and criminal justice system to systemic bias in law enforcement and other social institutions, have become more urgent and central to the national conversation. The show's actors, such as Idris Elba, Dominic West, and Michael B. Jordan, have gone on to become major st...
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How to Archer: The Ultimate Guide to Espionage and Style and Women and Also Cocktails Ever Written

By: Archer, Sterling

Price: $7.00

Publisher: It Books : January 2012

Seller ID: 248602

ISBN-13: 9780062066312

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Lying is like 95% of what I do. But believe me: in this book, I'll let you know exactly how to become a master spy just like me. Obviously, you won't be as good at it as I am, but that's because you're you, and I'm Sterling Archer. I know, I know, it sucks not being me. But don't beat yourself up about it, because I'm going to show you all the good stuff--what to wear; what to drink; how to seduce women (and, when necessary, men); how to beat up men (and, when necessary, women); how to tell the difference between call girls and hookers (hint: when they're dead, they're just hookers) and everyt...
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How to Archer: The Ultimate Guide to Espionage and Style and Women and Also Cocktails Ever Written

By: Archer, Sterling

Price: $7.50

Publisher: It Books : January 2012

Seller ID: 795964

ISBN-13: 9780062066312

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Lying is like 95% of what I do. But believe me: in this book, I'll let you know exactly how to become a master spy just like me. Obviously, you won't be as good at it as I am, but that's because you're you, and I'm Sterling Archer. I know, I know, it sucks not being me. But don't beat yourself up about it, because I'm going to show you all the good stuff--what to wear; what to drink; how to seduce women (and, when necessary, men); how to beat up men (and, when necessary, women); how to tell the difference between call girls and hookers (hint: when they're dead, they're just hookers) and everyt...
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Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era

By: Austerlitz, Saul

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Dutton : September 2019

Seller ID: 763277

ISBN-13: 9781524743352

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Friends, published for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the show's premiere. Howyoudoin'? In September 1994, six friends sat down in their favorite coffee shop and began bantering about sex, relationships, jobs, and just about everything else. A quarter of a century later, new fans are still finding their way into the lives of Rachel, Ross, Joey, Chandler, Monica, and Phoebe, and thanks to the show's immensely talented creators, its intimate understanding of its youthful audience, and its reign during network television's last moment of dominance, Friend...
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Desilu : The story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz

By: Ball, Lucille/Sanders, Coyne S.,Gilbert, Tom

Price: $5.00

Publisher: William Morrow : May 1994

Seller ID: 692449

ISBN-13: 9780688135140

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The true, behind-the-scenes story of television's happiest couple, andHollywood's most tumultuous marriage.Fifty years ago the magical union of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz enthralled American audiences who couldn't got enough of the fiery redhead or her sexy Cuban husband. But off camera the situation couldn't have been less comic, with backstage battles, oversized egos, drinking, philandering, and the demands of phenomenal success undermining what was once a storybook romance.With exclusive access to family members (including daughter Lucie Arnaz) and rare photographs, Desilu is the first can...
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Finding Battlestar Galactica: An Unauthorized Guide

By: Battlestar GallacticaPorter, Lynnette,Lavery, David,Robson, Hillary

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Sourcebooks : May 2008

Seller ID: 697297

ISBN-13: 9781402212116

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

When Battlestar Galactica reappeared in 2003-a revamp of the original series in which a "rag-tag fugitive fleet" of the last remnants of mankind flees pursuing aliens while simultaneously searching for Earth-it redefined what television science fiction should be about. Since then it has been critically claimed as one of the best shows on television while growing TV's strongest cult fandom of 2 million viewers. Now, as the series comes to its conclusion, fans are more eager than ever for more BSG. Acclaimed television experts Lynnette Porter, David Lavery and Hillary Robson, authors of the top-...
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Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy

By: Battlestar/Eberl, Jason (ed)

Price: $6.00

Publisher: : November 2016

Seller ID: 328807

ISBN-13: 9781405178143

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This thought-provoking book examines the philosophical issues arising from the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica
television series, revealing how the ragtag fleet's outward journey to Earth is also an inward exploration for the human survivors and their Cylon pursuers.
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Dangerously Funny: Uncensored Story of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

By: Bianculi, David

Price: $8.00

Publisher: : February 2013

Seller ID: 227315

ISBN-13: 9781439101179

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Now in paperback, a rollicking history of the rise and fall of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour --"A stunningly alive portrait of the 1960s and of two very different men who 'refused to shut up' and thereby made TV history" (People). A dramatic behind-the-scenes look at the rise and fall of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour--the provocative, politically charged program that shocked the censors, outraged the White House, and forever changed the face of television. Decades before The Daily Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour proved there was a place on television for no-holds-barred politic...
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Television Writing from the Inside Out: Your Channel to Success (Applause Books)

By: Brody, Larry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Applause : November 2003

Seller ID: 629814

ISBN-13: 9781557835017

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Television Writing from the Inside Out is a how-to book with a difference: Larry Brody is a television writer-producer who has helped shape the medium. The book is rooted in experience, and told in the breezy style that is the trademark of Brody and his award-winning website TVWriter.Com, which has helped launch the careers of many new writers. The information given by Brody and the manner in which he gives it has made him a writing guru to thousands of hopefuls. Television Writing from the Inside Out covers: what writing jobs are available; the format, structure and stages of teleplay develop...
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Watcher's Guide Volume 1 (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

By: Buffy/Golden, Christopher

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : August 2013

Seller ID: 149644

ISBN-13: 9780671024338

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Based on Buffy, the American television series for teenagers which combines humour with horror, this book presents profiles, interviews and background information about the series, its cast and its creators.
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Reading the Vampire Slayer: The New, Updated, Unofficial Guide to Buffy and Angel (Reading Contemporary Television)

By: Buffy/Kaveney

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks : October 2001

Seller ID: 523769

ISBN-13: 9781860647628

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of the most original and popular television programmes of the last decade. It develops inventive variations on stock horror material partly for thrills, partly as eloquent metaphors for the anxieties of contemporary American teenagers, but does a lot more - varying its tone from surrealism to moments of intense romanticism. Reding the Vampire Slayer is a book of critical appreciations, which examines a variety of the complex ways in which Buffy and its spin-off series Angel have won the hearts of its target audience and the minds of intellectual co...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale

By: Buffy/South, James

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : November 2012

Seller ID: 728184

ISBN-13: 9780812695311

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Twenty-three essays by young professional philosophers examine crucial ethical and metaphysical aspects of the Buffyverse (the world of Buffy). Though the show already attracted much scholarly attention, this is the first book to fully disinter the intellectual issues. Designed by Whedon as a multilevel story with most of its meanings deeply buried in heaps of heavy irony, Buffy the Vampire Slayer has replaced The X-Files as the show that explains to Americans the nature of the powerful forces of evil continually threatening to surge into our world of everyday decency and overwhelm it. In the ...
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Johnny Carson

By: Carson/Bushkin, Henry

Price: $7.50

Publisher: : December 2013

Seller ID: 259321

ISBN-13: 9780544217621

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A revealing and incisive account of the King of Late Night at the height of his fame and power, by his lawyer, wingman, fixer, and closest confidant From 1962 until 1992, Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show and permeated the American consciousness. In the '70s and '80s he was the country's highest-paid entertainer and its most enigmatic. He was notoriously inscrutable, as mercurial (and sometimes cruel) off-camera as he was charming and hilarious onstage. During the apex of his reign, Carson's longtime lawyer and best friend was Henry Bushkin, who now shows us Johnny Carson with a breathtaki...
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Johnny Carson

By: Carson/Bushkin, Henry

Price: $6.50

Publisher: : December 2013

Seller ID: 473902

ISBN-13: 9780544217621

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A revealing and incisive account of the King of Late Night at the height of his fame and power, by his lawyer, wingman, fixer, and closest confidant From 1962 until 1992, Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show and permeated the American consciousness. In the '70s and '80s he was the country's highest-paid entertainer and its most enigmatic. He was notoriously inscrutable, as mercurial (and sometimes cruel) off-camera as he was charming and hilarious onstage. During the apex of his reign, Carson's longtime lawyer and best friend was Henry Bushkin, who now shows us Johnny Carson with a breathtaki...
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The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy

By: Carter, Bill

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Plume : September 2011

Seller ID: 434495

ISBN-13: 9780452297494

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The New York Times bestselling author of The Late Shift delivers "a boisterous, two-timing, high-stakes drama about the business of comedy" (The Associated Press). No one is more uniquely suited to document television's latest late- night travesty than veteran media reporter and bestselling author, Bill Carter. NBC's CEO, Jeff Zucker, had it all worked out when he moved Jay Leno from behind the desk at The Tonight Show, and handed the reins over to Conan O'Brien. But as everyone knows, his decision was a spectacular failure. Ratings plummeted, affiliates were enraged-and when Zucker tried to p...
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Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

By: Cavett, Dick

Price: $7.00

Seller ID: 347087

ISBN-13: 9780805091953

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

For years, Dick Cavett played host to the nation's most famous personalities on his late-night talk show. In this book, we get to hear Cavett's best tales, as he recounts great moments with the legendary entertainers who crossed his path and offers his own trenchant commentary on contemporary American culture and politics.
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The American Television Industry (International Screen Industries)

By: Curtin, Michael,Shattuc, Jane

Price: $6.00

Publisher: British Film Institute : December 2009

Seller ID: 590365

ISBN-13: 9781844573370

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The American Television Industry offers a concise and accessible introduction to TV production, programming, advertising, and distribution in the United States. The authors outline how programs are made and marketed, and furthermore provide an insightful overview of key players, practices, and future trends.
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Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests

By: Daily Show/ Smith, Chris

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 340395

ISBN-13: 9781455565382

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The complete, uncensored history of the award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as told by its correspondents, writers, and host. For almost seventeen years, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart brilliantly redefined the borders between television comedy, political satire, and opinionated news coverage. It launched the careers of some of today's most significant comedians, highlighted the hypocrisies of the powerful, and garnered 23 Emmys. Now the show's behind-the-scenes gags, controversies, and camaraderie will be chronicled by the players themselves, from legendary host Jon Stewart to t...
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Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street

By: Davis, Michael

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Viking Adult : December 2008

Seller ID: 716416

ISBN-13: 9780670019960

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The story of one of the most important and beloved shows on television-how it got started, nearly failed, and was saved by Elmo When the first episode aired on November 10, 1969, "Sesame Street" revolutionized the way education was presented to children on television. It has since become the longest-running children's show in history, and today reaches 8 million preschoolers on 350 PBS stations and airs in 120 countries. "Street Gang" is the compelling and often comical story of the creation and history of this media masterpiece and pop culture landmark, told with the cooperation of one of th...
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Doctor Who: Essential Guide to 50 Years of Doctor Who

By: Doctor Who

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Penguin Group UK : November 2013

Seller ID: 762736

ISBN-13: 9781405914000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This essential guide to fifty years of Doctor Who includes all eleven incarnations of the Doctor and fascinating facts on his adventures in space and time, as well as his helpful companions and fearsome foes. Find out all about the Doctor's TARDIS, his regenerations, and much, much more

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Category: Television