Using the popular CBS prime time TV crime series Numb3rs as a springboard, Keith Devlin (known to millions of NPR listeners as "the Math Guy" on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon) and G ...more on ebook "The Numbers Behind Numb3rs..."

In the mid 1990s, two major Hollywood studios, Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures, each launched their own broadcast television network with the hope of becoming the fifth major pl ...more on ebook "Season Finale..."

When Jeffrey Stepakoff was graduating with an MFA in playwriting, he imagined a life in the New York theater, wearing a beret and smoking clove cigarettes. Writing for the "boob tube" didn't ...more on ebook "Billion-Dollar Kiss..."

Movies made for television were in their infancy when ABC came up with a novel idea: a weekly series of films made exclusively for the small screen. The ABC Movie of the Week became a ...more on ebook "The ABC Movie of the Week Companion..."

"If they gave out Emmys for best book about an Emmy award winning TV series, Executive Producer Barney Rosenzweig would have another to add to his huge collection. If you love Cagney & Lacey ...more on ebook "Cagney & Lacey ... and Me..."

Hollywood special effects offer spectacular creations or re creations that make claims to our attention on the grounds of their 'incredible seeming reality'. They can appear both 'incredible ...more on ebook "The Spectacle of the Real..."

This book addresses the consequences of the main changes the media have undergone over the last 10 years: increasing commercialisation, concentration, convergence and internationalisation. T ...more on ebook "Media Between Culture and Commerce:..."

This original and engaging book investigates American television viewing habits as a distinct cultural form. Based on an empirical study of the day to day use of television by working people ...more on ebook "Thinking through Television..."