Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And All the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic

Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong · 307 pages

"An uproarious behind-the-scenes account of the creation of the hit television series describes how comedians Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld dreamed up the idea for an unconventional sitcom over coffee and how, despite network skepticism and minimal plotlines, achieved mainstream success, "--NoveList.

Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

James Andrew Miller, Tom Shales · 594 pages

WHEN A YOUNG WRITER named Lorne Michaels talked NBC executives into taking a chance on a new weekend late-night comedy series, nobody really knew what to expect-not even Michaels. But Saturday Night Live, launched in 1975 and still thriving today, would change the face of television. It introduced brash new stars with names like Belushi, Radner, Chase, and Murray; trashed taboos that had inhibited

Why Not Me?

Mindy Kaling · 240 pages

Hollywood starlet Mindy Kaling shares her ongoing, laugh-out-loud journey to find contentment and excitement in her adult life.

Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live

Doug Hill, Jeff Weingrad · 510 pages

Saturday Night is the intimate history of the original Saturday Night Live, from its beginnings as an outlaw program produced by an unruly band of renegades from the comedy underground to a TV institution that made stars of John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, Garrett Morris, Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy. This is the book that revealed to the world wha

Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad

Brett Martin · 311 pages

"A riveting and revealing look at the shows that helped cable television drama emerge as the signature art form of the twenty-first century In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the landscape of television began an unprecedented transformation. While the networks continued to chase the lowest common denominator, a wave of new shows, first on premium cable channels like HBO and then basic cable networ

Jim Henson: The Biography

Brian Jay Jones · 585 pages

"For the first time ever-- a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson. He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only through the iconic characters he created: Kermit the Frog, Bert and Ernie, Miss Piggy, Big Bird. The Muppets mad

The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There

Jenna Fischer · 321 pages

The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever

Alan Sepinwall · 306 pages

"12 shows that started a revolution in TV drama: The Sopranos. Oz. The Wire. Deadwood. The Shield. Lost. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 24. Battlestar Galactica. Friday Night Lights. Mad Men. Breaking Bad. These 12 shows, and the many more they made possible, ushered in a new golden age of television--one that made people take the medium more seriously than ever before" -- P. [4] of cover.

Inside HBO's Game of Thrones: Seasons 1 & 2

Bryan Cogman · 192 pages

Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street

Michael Davis · 379 pages

The story of one of the most important and beloved shows on television—how it got started, nearly failed, and was saved by ElmoWhen the first episode aired on November 10, 1969, Sesame Street revolutionized the way education was presented to children on television. It has since become the longest-running children’s show in history, and today reaches 8 million preschoolers on 350 PBS stations and a

The Making of Star Trek

Stephen E. Whitfield, Gene Roddenberry · 414 pages

> **The Biography of the Leading Science Fiction TV Program** > > STAR TREK! The long, hard battle of television's first tentative step > toward adult science fiction, with the complete story of how the *U.S.S. > Enterprise* was designed, her weaponry, equipment and power > resources, the original concept behind the show, how the continuity is > maintained, backgrounds of the characters, bi

The Wire: Truth Be Told

Rafael Alvarez · 424 pages

Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks

Brad Dukes · 340 pages

Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks examines David Lynch and Mark Frost’s legendary television series that aired on the ABC network from 1990-91. As the mystery of “Who Killed Laura Palmer?” played out on television sets across the world, another compelling drama was unfolding in the everyday lives of the show’s cast and crew. Twenty-five years later, Reflections goes behind the curtain of

The Making of Outlander: The Official Guide to Seasons 1 & 2

Tara Bennett · 231 pages

"Get an exclusive look behind the scenes of the first two seasons of Outlander with this official, fully illustrated companion to the hit Starz television series based on the bestselling novels,"--Amazon.com.

Bossypants

Tina Fey · 277 pages

Tina Fey’s new book *Bossypants* is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description of the comedian herself). From her humble roots growing up in Pennsylvania to her days doing amateur improv in Chicago to her early sketches on Saturday Night Live, Fey gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of modern comedy with equal doses of wit, candor, and self-deprecation. Some of the funnie

The Making of Pride and Prejudice

Sue Birtwistle, Sue Conklin, Susie Conklin · 128 pages

The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The First 25 Years

Edward Gross, Mark A. Altman · 560 pages

Memories of the Future - Volume 1

Wil Wheaton · 137 pages

"From 'Encounter at Farpoint' to 'Datalore, ' relive the first half of Star Trek: the Next Generation's unintentionally hilarious first season through the eyes, ears, and memories of cast member and fan, Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) as he shares his unique perspective in the episode guide you didn't even know you were dying to read"--Page 4 of cover

The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno & the Network Battle for the Night

Bill Carter · 311 pages

This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection

Carol Burnett

Johnny Carson

Henry Bushkin · 294 pages

A revealing and incisive account of the King of Late Night at the height of his fame and power, by his lawyer, wingman, fixer, and closest confidant. From 1962 until 1992, Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show and permeated the American consciousness. In the '70s and '80s he was the country's highest-paid entertainer and its most enigmatic. He was notoriously inscrutable, as mercurial (and sometim

The Daily Show: An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests

Chris Smith

And on that Bombshell: Inside the Madness and Genius of Top Gear

Richard Porter · 280 pages

Laughs, Luck...and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time

Jess Oppenheimer · 290 pages