The British Television Pilot Episodes Research Guide 1936 2015

Author : Christopher Perry
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781900203623

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The British Television Pilot Episodes Research Guide 1936-2015 by Christopher Perry Pdf

A new idea can become an expensive flop for TV executives. So from the earliest days of television, the concept of a pilot episode seemed like a good idea. Trying out new actors; new situations and new concepts before making a series was good economical sense. It was also tax deductible. Sometimes these pilots were shown on television; sometimes they were so awful they were hidden from sight in archives; and sometimes they were excellent one-offs, but a series seemed elusive and never materialised. Chris Perry has always been fascinated by the pilot episode. So many pilots are made annually, but never seen by audiences. Only a handful appear on screen. It's a hidden world of comedy, variety, drama and factual programming. This volume attempts to lift the lid on the world of the TV pilot by revealing the many transmitted and untransmitted episodes made through the decades.

Author : Richard Weight
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781911239352

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Porridge by Richard Weight Pdf

'Norman Stanley Fletcher, you have pleaded guilty to the charges brought by this court and it is now my duty to pass sentence.' Those words, spoken by a judge to the show's hero in the title sequence of every Porridge episode, are among the most famous in British comedy and they remind viewers that this is no ordinary TV sitcom. The first situation comedy anywhere in the world to be set in a prison, Porridge is about men being punished for crimes committed against the same sort of people who are watching the show. Millions of hard working Britons were fans, many of them anxious about rising crime and worried that burglars would steal the TV set they were watching it on. Yet they still settled down at 8.30pm on Friday nights between 1974 and 1977 to watch a series that celebrates the sometimes pathetic, often ingenious, recidivism of a group of social misfits who by their own admission are failed citizens. How did such a comedy come to be seen as part of a 'golden age of British sitcom', without ever losing its edge to nostalgia? Crime, like sex, sells. But Porridge did not romanticise villainy. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it's a satire of class-consciousness and power, warmed by a humanistic celebration of men on the margins of society. Its heroes are weak inadequate misfits, not tough, glamorous gangsters. Porridge was a success because the essence of situation comedy is confinement; characters in this format are people who feel trapped and thwarted by circumstances beyond their control. This, therefore, is the ultimate sitcom. Richard Weight's entertaining study of this much-loved classic places Porridge in the context of 1970s social upheavals, explores how the series satirises structures of class and authority through Fletch and Godber's battles to outwit the prison officers Mr Mackay and Mr Barrowclough, and traces its influences on TV comedy that followed.

Author : Union Of International Associations,Union of International Associations
Publisher : Yearbook of International Orga
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9004272003

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Yearbook of International Organizations 2014-2015 (Volume 4) by Union Of International Associations,Union of International Associations Pdf

The Yearbook of International Organizations provides the most extensive coverage of non-profit international organizations currently available. Detailed profiles of international non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations (IGO), collected and documented by the Union of International Associations, can be found here. In addition to the history, aims and acitvities of international organizations, with their events, publications and contact details, the volumes of the Yearbook include networks between associations, biographies of key people involved and extensive statistical data. Providing both an international organizations and research bibliography, Volume 4 cites over 46,000 publications and information resources supplied by international organizations, and provides nearly 18,000 research citations under 40 subject headings. This volume also includes a research bibliography on international organizations and transnational associations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Humanities
ISBN : PSU:000015479068

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Current Research in Britain by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kees Rookmaaker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 891 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004691544

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The Rhinoceros of South Asia by Kees Rookmaaker Pdf

The rhinoceros is an iconic animal. Three species once inhabited South Asia, two of which disappeared over a century ago. This survey aims to reconstruct the historical distribution of these large mammals resulting in new maps showing the extent of their occurrences. Thousands of sources varied in time and nature are used to study the interactions between man and rhinoceros. The text is supported by over 700 illustrations and 38 maps showing the importance of the rhinoceros in the scientific and cultural fabric of Asia and beyond.

Author : Christopher George Leslie Hodges
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784911508

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Derelict Stone Buildings of the Black Mountains Massif by Christopher George Leslie Hodges Pdf

This study provides evidence of a widespread settlement pattern that existed in an upland area of the Eastern Massif of the Black Mountains in South-East Wales, now sparsely populated, and that they can be dated from the late medieval and early post-medieval periods respectively.

Author : K G Saur Books,K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH & Company
Publisher : K. G. Saur
Page : 1468 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3598117124

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Guide to Microforms in Print by K G Saur Books,K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH & Company Pdf

Author : Chris Perry
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781900203609

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The Kaleidoscope British Christmas Television Guide 1937-2013 by Chris Perry Pdf

A Guide to British television programmes shown at Christmas time, throughout the years.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1352 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Microcards
ISBN : UOM:39015078330696

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Guide to Microforms in Print by Anonim Pdf

Author : Amanda D Lotz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781479830077

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The Television Will Be Revolutionized, Second Edition by Amanda D Lotz Pdf

Go behind the TV screen to explore what is changing, why it is changing, and why the changes matters Many proclaimed the “end of television” in the early years of the twenty-first century, as capabilities and features of the boxes that occupied a central space in American living rooms for the preceding fifty years were radically remade. In this revised, second edition of her definitive book, Amanda D. Lotz proves that rumors of the death of television were greatly exaggerated and explores how new distribution and viewing technologies have resurrected the medium. Shifts in the basic practices of making and distributing television have not been hastening its demise, but are redefining what we can do with television, what we expect from it, how we use it—in short, revolutionizing it. Television, as both a technology and a tool for cultural storytelling, remains as important today as ever, but it has changed in fundamental ways. The Television Will Be Revolutionized provides a sophisticated history of the present, examining television in what Lotz terms the “post-network” era while providing frameworks for understanding the continued change in the medium. The second edition addresses adjustments throughout the industry wrought by broadband delivered television such as Netflix, YouTube, and cross-platform initiatives like TV Everywhere, as well as how technologies such as tablets and smartphones have changed how and where we view. Lotz begins to deconstruct the future of different kinds of television—exploring how “prized content,” live television sports and contests, and linear viewing may all be “television,” but very different types of television for both viewers and producers. Through interviews with those working in the industry, surveys of trade publications, and consideration of an extensive array of popular shows, Lotz takes us behind the screen to explore what is changing, why it is changing, and why the changes matter.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1440 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Medicine
ISBN : CHI:29738654

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Medical and Health Care Books and Serials in Print by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2092 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124485918

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Books in Print by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015016319850

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Who's who in the West by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Marson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Blue Peter (Television program)
ISBN : 1900203308

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Blue Peter by Richard Marson Pdf

Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117841044

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American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949 by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography Pdf