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Billion dollar game : how three men risked it all and changed the face of television / Peter Bazalgette.
- Title
- Billion dollar game : how three men risked it all and changed the face of television / Peter Bazalgette.
- Author
- Bazalgette, Peter
- Publication
- London : Time Warner, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PN1992.8.R43 .B39 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 306 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- 'Billion Dollar Game' is a modern business classic that brings the behind-the-scenes story of modern television to life. Cash Mountain. Survive. Project X. In the mid-1990s, these three innovative television shows had hit a dead end before they had even made production. Rejected time and again by the networks, they seemed destined never to reach the screen. But thanks to the brilliance and determination of three men, not only did they get made, they became the biggest and most successful shows on earth: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, Survivor and Big Brother. 'Billion Dollar Game' is the compelling story of how Paul Smith, Charlie Parsons and, above all, John de Mol defied overwhelming odds to take the industry by storm, make personal fortunes and transform the map of popular culture. Peter Bazalgette, the man who brought Big Brother to the UK, charts the astonishing rise of reality TV from its humble beginnings on the Internet to the billion-dollar industry it is today.
- Subject
- Big Brother (TV-programma)
- Big brother (Television programme : Great Britain)
- Reality television programs
- Reality-TV
- Survivor (Television program)
- Televisieproducenten
- Televisieprogramma's
- Television broadcasting > Great Britain
- Television quiz shows
- Who wants to be a millionaire (Television program : United States)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Absolute beginners -- Closer to reality -- Everything is changing -- Unpopular ideas -- Ideas won't keep -- The worth of a man -- Put me on television -- Deals are my art form -- To withstand the highest bedder -- A very good case -- Civilisation as we know it -- Trash heroes and pantomine villians -- Sex rears it head -- Bimbos, bans and boycotts -- Vote early, vote often.
- ISBN
- 0316731099 (cased)
- 9780316731096 (cased)
- 0316729159 (pbk.)
- 9780316729154 (pbk.)
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library