Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV
分類: 图书,进口原版,Arts & Photography(艺术与摄影),
品牌: Warren LittlefieldT. R. Pearson
基本信息出版社:Doubleday (2012年5月1日)精装:336页正文语种:英语ISBN:0385533748条形码:9780385533744商品重量:721 gASIN:0385533748您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介Seinfeld,Friends,Frasier,ER,Cheers,Law & Order,Will & Grace…Here is the funny, splashy, irresistible insiders’ account of the greatest era in television history -- told by the actors, writers, directors, producers, and the network executives who made it happen…and watched it all fall apart.
Warren Littlefield was the NBC President of Entertainment who oversaw the Peacock Network’s rise from also-ran to a division that generated a billion dollars in profits. In this fast-paced and exceptionally entertaining oral history, Littlefield and NBC luminaries including Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Kelsey Grammer, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow, Julianna Marguiles, Anthony Edwards, Noah Wylie, Debra Messing, Jack Welch, Jimmy Burrows, Helen Hunt, and Dick Wolf vividly recapture the incredible era of Must See TV.
From 1993 through 1998, NBC exploded every conventional notion of what a broadcast network could accomplish with the greatest prime-time line-up in television history. On Thursday nights, a cavalcade of groundbreaking comedies and dramas streamed into homes, attracting a staggering 75 million viewers and generating more revenue than all other six nights of programming combined. The road to success, however, was a rocky one. How do you turn a show likeSeinfeld, one of the lowest testing pilots of all time, into a hit when the network overlords are constantly warring, or worse, drowning in a bottle of vodka?
Top of the Rockis an addictively readable account of the risky business decisions, creative passion, and leaps of faith that made Must See TV possible. Chock full of delicious behind-the-scenes anecdotes that run the gamut from hilarious casting and programming ploys to petty jealousies and drug interventions, you’re in for a juicy, unputdownable read.媒体推荐"To detail the exuberant 1990s’ events in the Peacock Network’s ascendancy (with such shows asFrasier,Friends,Seinfeld,Will & Grace, andER) Littlefield and novelist Pearson interviewed more than 50 actors, writers, producers, agents and executives...Littlefield unleashed a ‘financial geyser’ at NBC, andthese revelatory glimpses of those glory days make this one of the more entertaining books published about the television industry.”
--Publishers Weekly
"Littlefield's compulsively readable saga,Top of the Rock,is a great tale of folly."
--Dick Donahue forPW
"With entertaning insider's perspective, Littlefield transports readers back to a seemingly magical time when half the country would watch the same show."
--Kirkus