TV Finales FAQ
All That's Left to Know About the Endings of Your Favorite TV Shows
Will be published approx. on 1. November 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
424 pages
978-1-4803-9144-4 (ISBN)
Description
TV Finales FAQ is the first book devoted exclusively to television's most memorable series finales. From Mary Richards' heartfelt goodbye to the WJM-TV newsroom in the classic finale of The Mary Tyler Moore Show to the puzzling conclusion of the enigmatic adventure series, Lost, to the tumultuous final hours in the life of Breaking Bad's Walter White, TV Finales FAQ takes an up close, insightful, and entertaining look at the most memorable final episodes of television's most popular prime time, daytime, and late night series.
Crafting the final episode to a long-running television series can be challenging for producers and writers who want to remain faithful to the show's characters and history, yet, at the same time, satisfy the high expectations of its loyal fan base. TV Finales FAQ offers television viewers the inside story on the creation, broadcast, and aftermath of the most famous (and infamous) final episodes of over 50 television series from the 1960s through the present day.
The books features such shows as Dexter, Roseanne, Will & Grace, The Office, The Sopranos, and some classic talk and late-night programs such as The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and many others.
Crafting the final episode to a long-running television series can be challenging for producers and writers who want to remain faithful to the show's characters and history, yet, at the same time, satisfy the high expectations of its loyal fan base. TV Finales FAQ offers television viewers the inside story on the creation, broadcast, and aftermath of the most famous (and infamous) final episodes of over 50 television series from the 1960s through the present day.
The books features such shows as Dexter, Roseanne, Will & Grace, The Office, The Sopranos, and some classic talk and late-night programs such as The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and many others.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Hal Leonard Corporation
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
688 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4803-9144-4 (9781480391444)
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E-Book
01/2000
1st Edition
Applause Theatre Book Publishers
€16.49
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Person
Stephen Tropiano (Los Angeles) is the author of Saturday Night Live FAQ, The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on Television, and books on the film musicals Grease and Cabaret for Limelight Editions' "Music on Film" series. He is the director of the Ithaca College Los Angeles Program, where he teaches courses in film and television theory and criticism.
Holly Van Buren (New York) earned her MA in Critical Studies at the University of Southern California and teaches film studies at Wagner College.
Holly Van Buren (New York) earned her MA in Critical Studies at the University of Southern California and teaches film studies at Wagner College.