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  • Television Talk

    A History of the TV Talk Show

    by Robert J. Erler, Bernard M. Timberg ...
    Series series Texas Film and Media Studies Series
    A CHOICE Outstanding Academic BookFlip through the channels at any hour of the day or night, and a television talk show is almost certainly on. Whether it offers late-night entertainment with David Letterman, share-your-pain empathy with Oprah Winfrey, trash talk with Jerry Springer, or intellectual give-and-take with Bill Moyers, the talk show is one of television's most popular and enduring ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • This Time Together

    Laughter and Reflection

    by Carol Burnett ...
    This touching and hilarious memoir is 100 percent Carol Burnett—funny, irreverent, and irresistible.Carol Burnett is one of the most beloved and revered actresses and performers in America. The Carol Burnett Show was seen each week by millions of adoring fans and won twenty-five Emmys in its remarkable eleven-year run. Now, in This Time Together, Carol really lets her hair down and tells one funny ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Travelling to Work

    Diaries 1988–1998 (Volume 3)

    by Michael Palin ...
    The third volume of Michael Palin's celebrated diaries.TRAVELLING TO WORK is a roller-coaster ride driven by the Palin hallmarks of curiosity and sense of adventure. Michael was not the BBC's first choice for the travel series AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, but after its success, the public naturally wanted more.Palin, however, had other plans. There was his film AMERICAN FRIENDS, a role in Alan ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Walking Dead

    The Untold History of Television

    by Kathleen Olmstead ...
    Series Book 6 - The Untold History of Television
    The Untold History of Television provides an exciting glimpse behind the scenes of the groundbreaking series that have defined the landscape of popular culture.Based on the wildly popular comic by Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead is a riveting drama about experiencing a zombie apocalypse—and living to tell the tale. It explores the survivors’s fate and questions who poses the greater threat: the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Variety Was King

    Memoir of a TV Pioneer

    by Frank Peppiatt ...
    A television producer's "fascinating" memoir of the golden age of the variety show ( Kirkus Reviews).A humble Canadian boy who grew up to create iconic American TV shows featuring the Hollywood celebrities of the day, Frank Peppiatt made his breakthrough by developing the rock TV show Hullabuloo with his partner, John Aylesworth. That led to a writing gig for Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé—and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Season Finale

    The Unexpected Rise & Fall of the WB and UPN

    by Susanne Daniels, Cynthia Littleton ...
    Season Finale is an inside chronicle of the entertainment industry following the unexpected rise and fall of the WB and UPN networks.In the mid-1990s, Hollywood studios Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures each launched their own broadcast television network, hoping to become the fifth player in an industry dominated by ABC, CBS, NBC, and, more recently, Fox. Against all odds, the WB and UPN ... Read more

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  • Post-TV

    Piracy, Cord-Cutting, and the Future of Television

    by Michael Strangelove ...
    In the late 2000s, television no longer referred to an object to be watched; it had transformed into content to be streamed, downloaded, and shared. Tens of millions of viewers have “cut the cord,” abandoned cable television, tuned into online services like Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube, and also watch pirated movies and programmes at an unprecedented rate. The idea that the Internet will devastate ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Nth Doctor

    by Randy Lofficier, Jean-Marc Lofficier ...
    Over the last three decades, several film production companies have held the rights to make a Doctor Who movie. To this day, intense speculation surrounds the details of these unmade productions. Here, for the first time, is an in-depth exploration of the Doctor Who films that almost were, including detailed synopses and extracts from the scripts themselves, interviews with the writers, behind-the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Nitpicker's Guide for X-Philes

    by Phil Farrand ...
    Series series Nitpicker's Guides
    The truth is, the nits are out there....What's weird about Samantha T. Mulder's birthday?(She has two of them: January 22 and November 21.)What's amazing about Mulder's cell phone?(It operates inside a metal boxcar, buried in a canyon, out in the deserts of New Mexico: anywhere!)Scully and Mulder, you have reason to be paranoid. Armed with keen detective sense, attention to detail, and a VCR, ... Read more

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  • Hollywood TV

    The Studio System in the Fifties

    by Christopher Anderson ...
    Series series Texas Film and Media Studies Series
    The 1950s was one of the most turbulent periods in the history of motion pictures and television. During the decade, as Hollywood's most powerful studios and independent producers shifted into TV production, TV replaced film as America's principal postwar culture industry.This pioneering study offers the first thorough exploration of the movie industry's shaping role in the development of ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Dragon Ball Culture: Volume 5

    Demons

    by Derek Padula ...
    Series Book 5 - Dragon Ball Culture
    Son Goku battles the demon king! In Dragon Ball Culture Volume 5 we’ll reunite with Goku and his friends as they compete in the 22nd Tenkaichi Budokai. Then we’ll join them as they fight in a life or death battle against the Demon King Pikkoro!Akira Toriyama starts us off by introducing three new characters into the story. These are Tenshinhan, Chaozu, and their evil master, Tsuru-sennin. This ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 5000 Episodes and No Commercials

    The Ultimate Guide to TV Shows On DVD

    by David Hofstede ...
    Groundbreaking! Does for TV shows what Leonard Maltin’s guides do for movies! Forget movies! Sales of TV DVDs are outpacing all other categories, according to Video Store magazine. The Simpsons, 24, Lost, Desperate Housewives, Alias, even old chestnuts like Columbo and Home Improvement are blowing out of the stores as fans and collectors rush to buy their favorite shows, compact and complete. How ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD