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Up the tube : prime-time TV and the Silverman years
- Title
- Up the tube : prime-time TV and the Silverman years / Sally Bedell.
- Author
- Smith, Sally Bedell, 1948-
- Publication
- New York : Viking Press, [1981]
- ©1981
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Viking Press. pbl
- Description
- xxii, 313 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- An inside look at the television industry discusses the networks, the corporate executives, the high-stakes battles for profits and prestige, the ratings war, and the meteoric career of Fred Silverman.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies.
- Note
- "A condensed version of Chapter 2 appeared originally in TV Guide."--Title page verso.
- Contents
- Introduction: the Silverman years -- To the medium born -- Real world of television -- Marching orders -- Breaking the barriers -- Turning around -- On a silver streak -- Spinning -- Success is not enough -- Inheritance -- Myth of the golden gut -- Heat -- TV movie grows up -- Silverman, superstar -- Year of the jugular -- Born again -- Cancellation sweepstakes -- Derailed -- Back to basics -- Staying afloat -- Whither the nineteen-inch man? -- Who's on first -- Glossary of prime-time jargon.
- ISBN
- 0670513857
- 9780670513857
- LCCN
- 80052002
- OCLC
- ocm07173529
- 7173529
- SCSB-29295
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library