Game Show Confidential

Author : Boze Hadleigh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493072590

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Game Show Confidential by Boze Hadleigh Pdf

Game and quiz shows first started appearing on radio broadcasts in the 1930s, led by the CBS network’s Professor Quiz, hosted by a man who was neither a professor nor even a college graduate, the first of several frauds that seemed to be endemic to the genre. Professor Quiz was followed by other such game shows as Uncle Jim’s Question Bee and Ask It Basket, which in turn spawned successful box games for at-home play. The show Truth or Consequences made the transition from radio to television in the late 1940s and was so popular that a town in New Mexico was named for the show. Television proved to be the perfect platform for game shows since they were very popular and cheap to produce. Even in reruns today, the older shows still draw huge audiences. This book describes the evolution of the game show, its larger-than-life producers and hosts, as well as the scandals that have rocked it from time to time, including bloopers from such “adult” oriented shows as The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and Hollywood Squares. This is an entertaining and lively look at an American phenomenon whose popularity doesn’t seem to be going away.

Author : David Baber
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476604800

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Television Game Show Hosts by David Baber Pdf

This unique work profiles the private lives and careers of 32 American game show hosts, including the originals (e.g., Bill Cullen, Peter Marshall), the classics (e.g., Bob Barker), and the contemporaries (e.g., Regis Philbin). Organized by host, each chapter includes birth and family information and a complete career history. The most significant developments of each host’s early life and career are highlighted—complete with successes, failures, and scandals. Many of the biographies are accompanied by interviews with the host or his family and friends.

Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Telecommunication
ISBN : UOM:39015088940351

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FCC Record by United States. Federal Communications Commission Pdf

Author : Emily Nussbaum
Publisher : Random House
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780525509004

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Cue the Sun! by Emily Nussbaum Pdf

The rollicking saga of reality television—an ambitious cultural history of America’s most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning New Yorker writer “Written with a storyteller’s verve, a journalist’s skepticism, a critic’s astuteness, and a fan’s loving eye.”—Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Who invented reality television, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre? And why can’t we look away? In this revelatory, deeply reported account of the rise of “dirty documentary”—from its contentious roots in radio to the ascent of Donald Trump—Emily Nussbaum unearths the origin story of the genre that ate the world, as told through the lively voices of the people who built it. At once gimlet-eyed and empathetic, Cue the Sun! explores the morally charged, funny, and sometimes tragic consequences of the hunt for something real inside something fake. In sharp, absorbing prose, Nussbaum traces the jagged fuses of experimentation that exploded with Survivor at the turn of the millennium. She introduces the genre’s trickster pioneers, from the icy Allen Funt to the shambolic Chuck Barris; Cops auteur John Langley; cynical Bachelor ringmaster Mike Fleiss; and Jon Murray and Mary-Ellis Bunim, the visionaries behind The Real World—along with dozens of stars from An American Family, The Real World, Big Brother, Survivor, and The Bachelor. We learn about the tools of the trade—like the Frankenbite, a deceptive editor’s best friend—and ugly tales of exploitation. But Cue the Sun! also celebrates reality’s peculiar power: a jolt of emotion that could never have come from a script. What happened to the first reality stars, the Louds—and why won’t they speak to the couple who filmed them? Which serial killer won on The Dating Game? Nussbaum explores reality TV as a strike-breaker, the queer roots of Bravo, the dark truth behind The Apprentice, and more. A shrewd observer who adores television, Nussbaum is the ideal voice for the first substantive history of the genre that, for better or worse, made America what it is today.

Author : Adam Nedeff
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1617136557

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Game Show FAQ by Adam Nedeff Pdf

GAME SHOWS FAQ: ALL THATS LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE PIONEERS THE JACKPOTS THE SCANDAL

Author : Francine Pascal
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429965207

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Sweet Valley Confidential by Francine Pascal Pdf

A New York Times Best Seller! Now with this striking new adult novel from author and creator Francine Pascal, millions of devoted fans can finally return to the idyllic Sweet Valley, home of the phenomenally successful book series and franchise. Iconic and beloved identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield are back and all grown up, dealing with the complicated adult world of love, careers, betrayal, and sisterhood. WANT MORE SWEET VALLEY RIGHT NOW?? Become a fan of Sweet Valley Confidential on Facebook or Twitter.

Author : Heather Graham
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488028021

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A Dangerous Game by Heather Graham Pdf

TROUBLE ALWAYS FINDS HER… Wrapping up a normal day at the office, criminal psychologist Kieran Finnegan is accosted by a desperate woman who shoves an infant into her arms and then flees, only to be murdered minutes later on a busy Manhattan street. Who was the woman? Where did the baby come from? Kieran can’t stop thinking about the child and the victim, so her boyfriend, Craig Frasier, does what any good special agent boyfriend would do—he gets the FBI involved. And asks Kieran to keep out of it. But the Finnegans have a knack for getting into trouble, and Kieran won’t sit idle when a lead surfaces through her family’s pub. Investigating on her own, she uncovers a dangerous group that plays fast and loose with human lives and will stop at nothing to keep their secrets—and they plan to silence Kieran before she can expose their deadly enterprise.

Author : Mike Reiss,Mathew Klickstein
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780062748041

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Springfield Confidential by Mike Reiss,Mathew Klickstein Pdf

Semi-Finalist for the 2019 James Thurber Award * One of Vulture's Top-10 Comedy Books of 2018 * A "Must" pick by Entertainment Weekly * An A.V. Club Best Books selection * A "New and Noteworthy" selection by USA Today In celebration of The Simpsons thirtieth anniversary, the show’s longest-serving writer and producer offers a humorous look at the writing and making of the legendary Fox series that has become one of the most revered artistic achievements in television history. Four-time Emmy winner Mike Reiss—who has worked on The Simpsons continuously since episode one in 1989—shares stories, scandals, and gossip about working with America’s most iconic cartoon family ever. Reiss explains how the episodes are created, and provides an inside look at the show’s writers, animators, actors and celebrity guests. He answers a range of questions from Simpsons fans and die-hards, and reminisces about the making of perennially favorite episodes. In his freewheeling, irreverent comic style, Reiss reflects on his lifetime inside The Simpsons—a personal highlights reel of his achievements, observations, and favorite stories. Springfield Confidential exposes why Matt Groening decided to make all of the characters yellow; dishes on what it’s like to be crammed in a room full of funny writers sixty hours a week; and tells what Reiss learned after traveling to seventy-one countries where The Simpsons is watched (ironic note: there’s no electricity in many of these places); and even reveals where Springfield is located! He features unique interviews with Judd Apatow, who also provided the foreword, and Conan O'Brien, as well as with Simpsons legends Al Jean, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, and more. Like Cary Elwes’ As You Wish, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong’s Seinfeldia, and Chris Smith’s The Daily Show: An Oral History, Springfield Confidential is a funny, informational, and exclusive look at one of the most beloved programs in all of television land.

Author : Anonymous,Pocket Books
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Large type books
ISBN : 9781416524816

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Oakdale Confidential by Anonymous,Pocket Books Pdf

When Gregory Marron Jr. arrives dead in his limo at a social event honoring his family, three women--Katie, Maddie, and Carly--have reason to suspect murder, and the ensuing investigation turns up several suspects and past secrets.

Author : Marsha F. Cassidy
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292782723

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What Women Watched by Marsha F. Cassidy Pdf

In this pathfinding book, based on original archival research, Marsha F. Cassidy offers the first thorough analysis of daytime television's earliest and most significant women's genres, appraising from a feminist perspective what women watched before soap opera rose to prominence. After providing a comprehensive history of the early days of women's programming across the nation, Cassidy offers a critical discussion of the formats, programs, and celebrities that launched daytime TV in America—Kate Smith's variety show and the famed singer's unsuccessful transition from patriotic radio star to 1950s TV idol; the "charm boys" Garry Moore, Arthur Godfrey, and Art Linkletter, whose programs honored women's participation but in the process established the dominance of male hosts on TV; and the "misery shows" Strike It Rich and Glamour Girl and the controversy, both critical and legal, they stirred up. Cassidy then turns to NBC's Home show, starring the urbane Arlene Francis, who infused the homemaking format with Manhattan sophistication, and the ambitious daily anthology drama Matinee Theater, which strove to differentiate itself from soap opera and become a national theater of the air. She concludes with an analysis of four popular audience participation shows of the era—the runaway hit Queen for a Day; Ralph Edwards's daytime show of surprises, It Could Be You; Who Do You Trust?, starring a youthful Johnny Carson; and The Big Payoff, featuring Bess Myerson, the country's first Jewish Miss America. Cassidy's close feminist reading of these shows clearly demonstrates how daytime TV mirrored the cultural pressures, inconsistencies, and ambiguities of the postwar era.

Author : Bob McKenzie
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781443418348

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Hockey Confidential by Bob McKenzie Pdf

Over 500,000 hockey fans follow Bob McKenzie on Twitter and millions more on TSN—no one has the access or breadth and depth of experience when it comes to the hockey. Now in his very first book on the NHL, Bob goes behind the scenes, covering the inside stories, the lesser-known personalities and the events that shape Canada’s game. He talks to Bobby Orr about Connor McDavid (touted as “the next Crosby”), reveals the actual stats that NHL coaches and scouts use, and explores what it’s like to be Don Cherry’s son. Entertaining, insightful and a damn good read, Hockey Confidential is a must for every hockey fan.

Author : Pascal Kamina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107120747

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Film Copyright in the European Union by Pascal Kamina Pdf

This second edition details the substantial developments in EU law during the last decade, including major cases, new treaties and new directives.

Author : Steve Ryan,Fred Wostbrock
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Game shows
ISBN : 1566252911

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The Ultimate TV Game Show Book by Steve Ryan,Fred Wostbrock Pdf

The Ultimate TV Game Show Book is a virtual cornucopia of fun, frivolity and fabulous facts from more than fifty years of games shows.

Author : Norman Blumenthal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063717990

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The TV Game Shows by Norman Blumenthal Pdf

Author : Kevin McPherson Eckhoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1897388632

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Game Show Reversed by Kevin McPherson Eckhoff Pdf