Author: David Schwartz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816030941
Category : Game shows
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Packed with facts and tidbits about America's best-loved--though sometimes quickly forgotten--game shows, the book traces the origins of more than 450 shows, providing such information as each one's air date, creator, hosts, notable celebrity guests, and more. From network TV's infancy to the technological advances of today's cable-ready world, this encyclopedia covers it all. 150 photos.
Author: Maxene Fabe
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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"From the original radio quiz shows through the scandal-ridden fifties up to today's extravaganzas, TV Game Shows takes you behind the sets of this uniquely American phenomenon. Here are the 10 worst and the 40 best shows of all time, the contestants, the hosts and the celebrities, the prizes and the profits, the questions and the quizzes ... Includes a complete list of every game show ever aired."--Cover.
Author: Horace Newcomb
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135194793
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 2732
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The Encyclopedia of Television, second edtion is the first major reference work to provide description, history, analysis, and information on more than 1100 subjects related to television in its international context. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclo pedia of Television, 2nd edition website.
Author: R.M. Reed
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 146846521X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 635
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This is a major reference work about the overlapping fields of television, cable and video. With both technical and popular appeal, this book covers the following areas: advertising, agencies, associations, companies, unions, broadcasting, cable-casting, engineering, events, general production and programming.
Author: Carol Publishing Group
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780821630945
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Steve Ryan
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN: 9781566252911
Category : Game shows
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Ultimate TV Game Show Book is a virtual cornucopia of fun, frivolity and fabulous facts from more than fifty years of games shows.
Author: The Editors of New York Magazine
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501166964
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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The must-have guide to pop culture, history, and world-changing ideas that started in New York City, from the magazine at the center of it all. Since its founding in 1624, New York City has been a place that creates things. What began as a trading post for beaver pelts soon transformed into a hub of technological, social, and cultural innovation—but beyond fostering literal inventions like the elevator (inside Cooper Union in 1853), Q-tips (by Polish immigrant Leo Gerstenzang in 1923), General Tso’s chicken (reimagined for American tastes in the 1970s by one of its Hunanese creators), the singles bar (1965 on the Upper East Side), and Scrabble (1931 in Jackson Heights), the city has given birth to or perfected idioms, forms, and ways of thinking that have changed the world, from Abstract Expressionism to Broadway, baseball to hip-hop, news blogs to neoconservatism to the concept of “downtown.” Those creations and more are all collected in The Encyclopedia of New York, an A-to-Z compendium of unexpected origin stories, hidden histories, and useful guides to the greatest city in the world, compiled by the editors of New York Magazine (a city invention itself, since 1968) and featuring contributions from Rebecca Traister, Jerry Saltz, Frank Rich, Jonathan Chait, Rhonda Garelick, Kathryn VanArendonk, Christopher Bonanos, and more. Here you will find something fascinating and uniquely New York on every page: a history of the city’s skyline, accompanied by a tour guide’s list of the best things about every observation deck; the development of positive thinking and punk music; appreciations of seltzer and alternate-side-of-the-street parking; the oddest object to be found at Ripley’s Believe It or Not!; musical theater next to muckracking and mugging; and the unbelievable revelation that English muffins were created on...West Twentieth Street. Whether you are a lifelong resident, a curious newcomer, or an armchair traveler, this is the guidebook you’ll need, straight from the people who know New York best.
Author: Vincent Terrace
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Television programs
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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"This work represents decades of research and television's entire history. While documentation regarding cast and personnel is now often found online, descriptions of the shows from authoritative sources are still not widely available. Terrace fills that gap with this work, which covers more than 9,350 shows and constitutes the most comprehensive documentation of TV series ever published"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Norman Blumenthal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Author: Wesley Hyatt
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476608741
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 485
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Since the early days of television, well before most households had a set, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has been handing out honors for the industry's best efforts. Now fans can read about their favorites--and perhaps rediscover some forgotten pleasures--in this reference to prime time and nighttime Emmy winners. Beginning with the heated charade contest known as Pantomime Quiz, which won Most Popular Program of 1948 in the first Emmy Awards ceremony (held in 1949), each of more than 100 winning shows gets star treatment with an entry that includes the year of award or awards, air times, hosts, guests, casts and a full discussion of the show's history and run. Many of the entries include original interviews with cast or crew members. With such rich information, each show's entry constitutes a chapter in the history of television through the story of the show and the people who made it happen. The best of variety, drama, game shows, comedies, adventures and many more categories are featured. An appendix offers interesting facts and figures and ranks shows according to such statistics as longest run, longest delay from debut to win, and most Emmys won.
