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Inside Prime Time

By: Todd Gitlin

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Paperback | 4 January 2000

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With a New Introduction

Unsurpassed since its first publication, Inside Prime Time is the only book to take us behind the scenes to reveal how prime-time shows get on the air, stay on the air, and are shaped by the political and cultural climate of their times. Using more than 200 interviews with network executives, producers, writers, agents, and actors, as well as months of on-set investigation during the networks' more prosperous years, sociologist and critic Todd Gitlin takes us into a frantic world searching for hit shows. The result is both a lucid picture of the mechanics of prime time and a series of vivid stories of what succeeded or failed, and why. His analysis includes a blow-by-blow account of how the exceptional police series Hill Street Blues succeeded against all odds before eventually succumbing to formula itself.

No one else has analyzed, as Gitlin has, the inside track that links executives and producers, or the efforts of worried advertisers, hopeful writers, and the lobbyists of the fundamentalist right to shape America's waking hours. In a new introduction, Gitlin describes the elements of the new television order, and argues that the proliferation of cable channels and the decline of the old networks have not fundamentally changed the business mentality that guides decisions about the entertainment that will fill Americans' leisure time.

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"This is very likely the most concentratedly intelligent book yet written about television. Gitlin immersed himself in the industry and yet somehow managed to preserve an independent, thoughtful viewpoint. The result is a delightfully concrete account of recent production from the inside which does not become captive of the usual trade assumptions."--Ernest Callenbach, "Film Quarterly"

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History of the Americas

Introduction to the 2000 Edition
Prologue	p. 3
Nothing Succeeds Like Success
The Problem of Knowing	p. 19
Predicting the Unpredictable	p. 31
By the Numbers	p. 47
Making Schedules	p. 56
The Triumph of the Synthetic: Spinoffs, Copies, Recombinant Culture	p. 63
"Another American Dream Gone Astray"	p. 86
The Television-Industrial Complex
Inside Tracks in a Small World	p. 115
The Deal Is the Art Form	p. 143
Movies of the Week	p. 157
The Politics of Prime Time
The Turn Toward "Relevance"	p. 203
Shifting Right: Yesterday's Vietnam, Today's FBI	p. 221
The "Far Righteous" Shake the Temple of Commerce	p. 247
The Temple Stands	p. 264
Hill Street Blues: "Make It Look Messy"	p. 273
Epilogue	p. 325
Acknowledgments	p. 336
Notes	p. 341
Index	p. 359
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