Television History

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    • How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV
    • Written by: Peter Biskind
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2023-11-07
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Instead of focusing on one service, like HBO, Pandora’s Box asks, “What did HBO do, besides give us The Sopranos?” The answer: It gave us a revolution....

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    • Letterman, Leno, & the Network Battle for the Night
    • Written by: Bill Carter
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2020-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Based on in-depth reporting and interviews with those involved, and updated with a new introduction by the author, The Late Shift is a blow-by-blow account of the fight that ensued as stars, agents, and executives maneuvered for control of the most profitable program in TV history....

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    • A Critical History of Witches in American Film and Television
    • Written by: Heather Greene
    • Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
    • Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2021-10-08
    • Language: English
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    • No industry has been as influential at shaping the popular notion of what it means to be a witch quite as much as Hollywood. This book traces the fascinating history of witchcraft and witches in American film and television....

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    • The Invention of Reality TV
    • Written by: Emily Nussbaum
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2024-06-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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.

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    • The Most Important Technologies, People and Events That Created the History of Television
    • Written by: Edward N. Simpson
    • Narrated by: Craig Patterson
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2021-04-02
    • Language: English
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    • Television is probably something we nowadays take for granted. There is a TV in almost every home, a TV in almost every public building - basically, where there is a signal, there is a TV....

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    • Back to the Island: The Complete Critical Companion to the Classic TV Series
    • Written by: Emily St. James, Noel Murray
    • Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2024-09-17
    • Language: English
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    • For fans of one of the most successful and highly discussed shows in recent memory, LOST: Back to the Island is both a delightful time capsule and a rousing work of entertainment criticism.

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    • The Complete and Fascinating History of a New Jersey Criminal Organization That Inspired a Popular TV Hit
    • Written by: Mafia Library
    • Narrated by: John Raynar
    • Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2023-03-22
    • Language: English
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    • If you want to uncover the secrets of one of the most notorious criminal organizations in American history, then you need to listen to this audiobook....

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    • Television, Donald Trump, and the Politics of Illusion
    • Written by: James Poniewozik
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2019-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • An incisive cultural history that captures a fractious nation through the prism of television and the rattled mind of a celebrity president....

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    • How the Agency Shapes Film and Television
    • Written by: Tricia Jenkins
    • Narrated by: Caroline Miller
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2012-08-22
    • Language: English
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    • The CIA in Hollywood offers the first full-scale investigation of the relationship between the Agency and the film and television industries....

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    • The Great Moments That Built a Galaxy Far, Far Away
    • Written by: Ken Napzok, Joseph Scrimshaw - foreword
    • Narrated by: Ken Napzok
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2019-08-27
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Celebrate the greatest saga ever told: All of us who are deeply influenced by the epic saga of Star Wars have our favorite moments....

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    • An Opinionated History of Queer TV
    • Written by: Shayna Maci Warner
    • Narrated by: Shayna Maci Warner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2024-10-22
    • Language: English
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    • The Rainbow Age of Television explores why queer people are so invested in—and conflicted by—the kinds of storytelling that TV has to offer. Above all, it's a celebration of the LGBTQIA+ shows, their characters, and their creators that define this new age in television.

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    • The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher—Television
    • Written by: Foster Hirsch
    • Narrated by: Foster Hirsch
    • Length: 36 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 2023-10-10
    • Language: English
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    • A fascinating look at Hollywood’s most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system—set against the boom of the post-WW II years, the Cold War, and the atomic age—and the movies that reflected the seismic shifts....

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    • 1974 - The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
    • Written by: Ronald Brownstein
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2021-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In this exceptional cultural history, Ronald Brownstein tells the kaleidoscopic story of one monumental year that marked the city of Los Angeles' creative peak, a glittering moment when popular culture was ahead of politics in predicting what America would become....

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    • TV Milestones
    • Written by: David Scott Diffrient
    • Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
    • Length: 4 hrs
    • Release date: 2013-05-11
    • Language: English
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    • Few American television series are as deeply entrenched in twentieth-century popular culture as M*A*S*H, a Korean War medical comedy characterized by its dark tone and finesse in tackling serious social and political issues....

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    • A History of American Television Themes and Scoring
    • Written by: Jon Burlingame
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2023-03-28
    • Language: English
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    • Music composed for television had, until recently, never been taken seriously by scholars or critics. Catchy TV themes, often for popular weekly series, were fondly remembered but not considered much more culturally significant than commercial jingles....

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    • The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote
    • Written by: Bruce Vilanch
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2025-03-04
    • Language: English
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    • Bruce Vilanch is known as a go-to comedy writer for award shows, sitcoms, and top-heavy variety specials, but he has also been responsible for quite a few of the worst shows ever put on television—legendarily bad productions.

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