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Pandora’s Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV

byPeter Biskind

Peter Biskind chronicles the transformation of American television from cautious network programming to ambitious cable drama and the disruptive abundance of streaming. Drawing on interviews with executives, writers, producers, directors, and actors, he reconstructs the creative risks, corporate battles, egos, deals, and technological shifts behind a celebrated era. Landmark shows appear within an industry repeatedly reinventing its business model and audience relationship. Biskind shows how artistic freedom grew from competition and appetite, then asks whether the same greed and fragmentation that upended television may also have ended its golden age.

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780062991669