Single Season Sitcoms Of The 1990s

Author : Bob Leszczak
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476631981

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Single Season Sitcoms of the 1990s by Bob Leszczak Pdf

During the “Must See TV” 1990s, Americans enjoyed such immensely popular sitcoms as Friends, Seinfeld, Home Improvement and The Drew Carey Show. Shows that did not make the ratings cut numbered in the hundreds—the emergence of new networks and cable channels airing original programming resulted in a vast increase in short-lived sitcoms over the previous decade. Some of these “flops” were actually quite good and deserved a better fate. The author revisits them—along with the “dramedies” of the day—with detailed entries providing production and broadcast information, along with critical analyses, and recollections by cast and crew members. A subsection highlights sitcoms that returned for an abbreviated second season. Dozens of cast and crew photographs are included.

Author : Bob Leszczak
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476670775

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Single Season Sitcoms of the 1990s by Bob Leszczak Pdf

During the "Must See TV" 1990s, Americans enjoyed such immensely popular sitcoms as Friends, Seinfeld, Home Improvement and The Drew Carey Show. Shows that did not make the ratings cut numbered in the hundreds--the emergence of new networks and cable channels airing original programming resulted in a vast increase in short-lived sitcoms over the previous decade. Some of these "flops" were actually quite good and deserved a better fate. The author revisits them--along with the "dramedies" of the day--with detailed entries providing production and broadcast information, along with critical analyses, and recollections by cast and crew members. A subsection highlights sitcoms that returned for an abbreviated second season. Dozens of cast and crew photographs are included.

Author : Bob Leszczak
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476623849

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Single Season Sitcoms of the 1980s by Bob Leszczak Pdf

As the cable TV industry exploded in the 1980s, offering viewers dozens of channels, an unprecedented number of series were produced. For every successful sitcom--The Golden Girls, Family Ties, Newhart--there were flops such as Take Five with George Segal, Annie McGuire with Mary Tyler Moore, One Big Family with Danny Thomas and Life with Lucy starring Lucille Ball, proving that a big name does not a hit show make. Other short-lived series were springboards for future stars, like Day by Day (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), The Duck Factory (Jim Carrey), Raising Miranda (Bryan Cranston) and Square Pegs (Sarah Jessica Parker). This book unearths many single-season sitcoms of the '80s, providing behind-the-scenes stories from cast members, guest stars, writers, producers and directors.

Author : Juneal M. Chenoweth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781440869143

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American Reference Books Annual by Juneal M. Chenoweth Pdf

Read professional, fair reviews by practicing academic, public, and school librarians and subject-area specialists that will enable you to make the best choices from among the latest reference resources. This newest edition of American Reference Books Annual (ARBA) provides librarians with insightful, critical reviews of print and electronic reference resources released or updated in 2017-2018, as well as some from 2019 that were received in time for review in the publication. By using this invaluable guide to consider both the positive and negative aspects of each resource, librarians can make informed decisions about which new reference resources are most appropriate for their collections and their patrons' needs. Collection development librarians who are working with limited budgets—as is the case in practically every library today—will be able to maximize the benefit from their monetary resources by selecting what they need most for their collection, while bypassing materials that bring limited value to their specific environment.

Author : Bob Leszczak
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786493050

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Single Season Sitcoms, 1948-1979 by Bob Leszczak Pdf

This book finally casts a spotlight on some short-lived and almost forgotten sitcoms--those which aired for only one single season. Many books have already been written about situation comedies that enjoyed long and storied runs on television but this volume focuses upon the others. Overflowing with fresh facts, interviews, photographs, and stories, nearly 300 short-lived sitcoms over a 32 year span are presented A-to-Z, whether network or syndicated, prime time or Saturday morning.

Author : Bob Leszczak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442233225

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Who Did It First? by Bob Leszczak Pdf

In Who Did It First?: Great Rock and Roll Cover Songs and Their Original Artists, the third volume in Bob Leszczak’s excitingWho Did It First? series,readers explore the hidden history of the most famous, indeed legendary, rock and roll classics. As Leszczak points out, the version you purchased, played air guitar to, sang along to, and grew up with is often not the first version recorded. Like wine and cheese, some tunes do get better with age, and behind each there is a story. Little-known facts and amusing anecdotes, often gathered through Leszczak’s vast archive of personal interviews with the singers and songwriters, record producers and label owners, who wrote, sang, recorded, and distributed either the original first cut or one of its classic covers.

Author : James Anthony Brown,Ward L. Quaal
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Broadcasting
ISBN : UOM:39015056239117

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Radio-television-cable Management by James Anthony Brown,Ward L. Quaal Pdf

This text explores the essential elements of broadcast management and looks at all levels of management in each of the major components of the broadcasting cable industry including, personnel, audiences, programming, sales, finance, law and engineering. Third revised edition.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015064838546

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The Video Librarian by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121668169

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The Hollywood Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Laurie Collier Hillstrom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1414402228

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Television in American Society by Laurie Collier Hillstrom Pdf

Presents an overview of the aspects of television broadcasting and their impact on American society.

Author : Kristal Brent Zook
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780195355659

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Color by Fox by Kristal Brent Zook Pdf

Following the overwhelming success of "The Cosby Show" in the 1980s, an unprecedented shift took place in television history: white executives turned to black dollars as a way of salvaging network profits lost in the war against video cassettes and cable T.V. Not only were African-American viewers watching disproportionately more network television than the general population but, as Nielsen finally realized, they preferred black shows. As a result, African-American producers, writers, directors, and stars were given an unusual degree of creative control over shows such as "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air," "Roc," "Living Single," and "New York Undercover". What emerged were radical representations of African-American memory and experience. Offering a fascinating examination of the explosion of black television programming in the 1980s and 1990s, this book provides, for the first time ever, an interpretation of black TV based in both journalism and critical theory. Locating a persistent black nationalist desire--a yearning for home and community--in the shows produced by and for African-Americans in this period, Kristal Brent Zook shows how the Fox hip-hop sitcom both reinforced and rebelled against earlier black sitcoms from the sixties and seventies. Incorporating interviews with such prominent executives, producers, and stars as Keenen Ivory Wayans, Sinbad, Quincy Jones, Robert Townsend, Charles Dutton, Yvette Lee Bowser, and Ralph Farquhar, this study looks at both production and reception among African-American viewers, providing nuanced readings of the shows themselves as well as the sociopolitical contexts in which they emerged. While black TV during this period may seem trivial or buffoonish to some, Color by Fox reveals its deep-rooted ties to African-American protest literature and autobiography, and a desire for social transformation.

Author : Walter T. Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UCSC:32106018786092

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Watching what We Watch by Walter T. Davis Pdf

This thinking person's guide to evaluating popular TV programs in light of one's faith, values, and beliefs consists of four main sections: comedies, dramas, fact-based programming, and the commerce of TV. Each section includes an overview, history, and trends in that genre plus several extensive "readings" of popular shows. B&W photos.

Author : Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476756110

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Seinfeldia by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Pdf

"An uproarious behind-the-scenes account of the creation of the hit television series describes how comedians Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld dreamed up the idea for an unconventional sitcom over coffee and how, despite network skepticism and minimal plotlines, achieved mainstream success, "--NoveList.

Author : Lynn C. Spangler
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015060037853

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Television Women from Lucy to Friends by Lynn C. Spangler Pdf

Between the pre-feminist antics of Lucy Ricardo & the post-feminist musings of the women in 'Friends', the depiction of women on television has evolved in as many interesting & surprising ways as the women's movement itself.

Author : Mary Ann Schwartz,BarBara Marliene Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : PSU:000044298739

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Marriages & Families by Mary Ann Schwartz,BarBara Marliene Scott Pdf

In this third edition of Marriages and Families: Diversity and Change, there is a conscious effort to present a continuity of major issues, concerns, and themes on contemprary marriages, families, and intimate relationships.