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The Television Series publishes serious, concise, and readable books about popular TV as a creative and artistic medium.

Television programming is the major focal point of this series which actively seeks books and book proposals on individual shows, specific genres, important auteurs, and programming history. We hope to present the stories of many of the creators of TV - the producers, the network executives, the directors and writers. First-person accounts, interviews, or thematic anthologies and collections, will be commissioned. The series also reprints classic works.

 
 
Series Editor
Robert J. Thompson
  Advisory Board Members
Ray Browne, Jane Feuer, William Link, J. Fred MacDonald, Jay Rosen, Ron Simon, Mark Tinker, and Leah VandeBerg
 
   
 

Books in the Television Series

Bonfire of the Humanities
Television, Subliteracy, and Long-Term Memory Loss
by David Marc
Critiquing the Sitcom
A Reader
by Joanne Morreale

Cue the Bunny on the Rainbow
Tales from TV's Most Prolific Sitcom Director
by Alan Rafkin

"Deny All Knowledge"
Reading the X Files
by David Lavery, Angela Hague, and Maria Carwright (eds.)
  Dictionary of Teleliteracy
Television's 500 Biggest Hits, Misses, and Events
by David Bianculli
  FrameWork
A History of Screenwriting in the American Film
(Third Edition)

by Tom Stempel
  The Gatekeeper
My 30 Years as a TV Censor
by Alfred R. Schneider, with Kaye Pullen
  Gen X TV
The Brady Bunch to Melrose Place
by Rob Owen
  King of the Half Hour
Nat Hiken and the Golden Age of Comedy
by David Everitt
  Laughs, Luck...and Lucy
How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcome of All Time
by Jess OppenHeimer with Gregg Oppenheimer
  Living Room War
by Michael J. Arlen
Lou Grant
The Making of TV's Top Newspaper Drama
by Douglass K. Daniel
 
Prime-Time Authorship
Works about and by Three TV Dramatists
by Douglas Heil
 
Prime Time, Prime Movers
From I Love Lucy to L.A. Law America's Greatest TV Shows and the
People Who Created Them
by David Marc and Robert J. Thompson
 
Rod Serling's Night Gallery
An After-Hours Tour
by Scott Skelton and Jim Benson
 
The Story of Viewers for Quality Television
From Grassroots to Prime Time
by Dorothy Collins Swanson
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Storytellers to the Nation
A History of American Television Writing
by Tom Stempel
 
Teleliteracy
Taking Television Seriously
by David Bianculli
 
Television's Second Golden Age
From Hill Street Blues to ER
by Robert J. Thompson
 

TV Creators
Conversations with America's Top Producers of Television Drama
by James Longworth, Jr.

 
TV Creators
Conversations with America's Top Producers of Television Drama, Vol. II
by James Longworth, Jr.
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The View from Highway 1
Essays on Television
by Michael J. Arlen
 
 
   
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