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Apple TV For Dummies
Editorial Reviews ... Product Description | Watch your iTunes downloads on a television screen with help from Apple TV For Dummies. This comprehensive guide offers shopping tips; easy-to-understand installation and setup directions; and advanced material like content creation, troubleshooting, and optimizing network speeds. You get the "download" on: Apple TV setup and customizing High-Definition video hardware State-of-the-art audio hardware Connecting both computer and video equipment Using iTunes and the iTunes Store Cataloging
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The TV Writer's Workbook: A Creative Approach To Television Scripts
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Customer Reviews [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2010-01-14 Summary: Buy it. ... I have purchased quite a few books on writing for screen, large and small. This is the one that finally got me writing. Get this book and you'll see too. Thank you Ellen for your ideas, examples and for restoring my motivation! ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-11-07 Summary: Simple, Concise, and Filled with an Abundance of Info for Writers/Producers ... If you are serious about writing/producing for TV then this book is a must. What better way to get information from someone who has actually worked in the business and taken the journey many of us are currently forging. I found Ellen Sandler writer/producer of Taxi, Coach, Everybody Loves Raymond, and more to be honest and sincere in her description and advice on what it takes to become success writer/producer in the business. This book is a rich resource on how to write your first spec script and what qualities besides ...more
[3] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-07-10 Summary: Fantastic! ... This is one of the most thorough and entertaining books I've read on the subject of TV writing. Sandler deftly utilizes her experience in the industry to provide examples that are relatable and understandable. Her writing is concise allowing the reader to breeze through the book. She also includes various writing exercises which I found to be particularly helpful to the writing process and offered new, creative ways to not only write stories, but to get ideas as well. This is a fantastic book and one I would highly ...more
Editorial Reviews ... Product Description | Why is TV writing different from any other kind of writing? How will writing a spec script open doors? What do I have to do to get a job writing for TV? Writing for television is a business. And, like any business, there are proven strategies for success. In this unique hands-on guide, television writer and producer Ellen Sandler shares the trade secrets she learned while writing for hit shows like Everybody Loves Raymond and Coach . She offers concrete advice on everything from finding...more
Another Big Book of TV Guide Crossword Puzzles: Hundreds of Crossword Puzzles From the TV Guide Archives!
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Editorial Reviews ... Product Description | Thirty million loyal TV Guide® readers know where to find the best TV crosswords ever created. Puzzles with television themes from the most widely read weekly magazine in the world make this collection a television lover’s dream book. It’s spiral bound, oversize, and filled with hundreds of crosswords that will challenge anyone’s television IQ. There are classic favorites from the 1960s, ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s; take a walk down memory lane, and answer “___ Masters in Rin...more
Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era
Editorial Reviews ... Product Description | Satirical TV has become mandatory viewing for citizens wishing to make sense of the bizarre contemporary state of political life. Shifts in industry economics and audience tastes have re-made television comedy, once considered a wasteland of escapist humor, into what is arguably the most popular source of political critique. From fake news and pundit shows to animated sitcoms and mash-up videos, satire has become an important avenue for processing politics in informative and entertaining...more
The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present
Customer Reviews [1] Rating: 4 Date: 2009-11-07 Summary: Almost too thick! ... As time goes on, this book will become even thicker. But for the money, it's a good buy. It would have gotten 5 stars from me if it had included daytime soap operas, as a previous edition had. For that reason, my wife is disappointed. But as the title indicates, "Prime Time . . ." Next time I'll be more careful and read closer. ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-09-19 Summary: Excellent resource for all TV fans of all ages! ... In looking for a comprehensive review and description of TV shows, past and present I found this compilation to be the best! ...more
[3] Rating: 4 Date: 2010-02-09 Summary: A Great book From The Classic Tee Vee !! ... I finally have the book I wanted to have looked on the TV series since the teevee born and all these programs that have emerged since its existence. is amazing what I have discovered in this fascinating book on the tv shows, I could not finish reviewing this dictionary or bible on the tv shows. I have found many numbers of programs already that I had forgotten existed, and that once for me was something and it will be one of those great memories that take a lifetime, while I'm alive. tv shows that never again watched ...more
Editorial Reviews ... Product Description | AMERICA’S #1 BESTSELLING TELEVISION BOOK WITH MORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES IN PRINT– NOW REVISED AND UPDATED! PROGRAMS FROM ALL SEVEN COMMERCIAL BROADCAST NETWORKS, MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED CABLE NETWORKS, PLUS ALL MAJOR SYNDICATED SHOWS! This is the must-have book for TV viewers in the new millennium–the entire history of primetime programs in one convenient volume. It’s a guide you’ll turn to again and again for information on every series ever telecast. There are entries for...more
Crafty TV Writing: Thinking Inside the Box
Feature: ... ISBN13: 9780805080285; Condition: NEW; Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. ...more
Customer Reviews [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2007-02-26 Summary: Excellent ... I've read many books on writing for film and television, and this is one of the best. What I like most about Alex Epstein's style is that it is immensely, if not compulsively, readable. His advice is practical and straightforward, and he approaches the topics in the book with a much appreciated playful sense of humor. There are books that are educational but pretentious and are a chore to go through, this book manages to be instructive and entertaining at the same time; it's a real gem. Highly recommended! ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2008-04-28 Summary: A great book for Beginners ... This book is perfect for beginners. It uses simply, practical words. Contains a glossary of terms. Displays an example of a breakdown, beat sheet, and Act. It's a straight forward book. Tells the ups and the downs of the business in both America and Canada. Tells you how to break in, and what to expect as a staffer among other things. ...more
[3] Rating: 5 Date: 2007-10-13 Summary: Great! ... This book was amazing. I read it in one day, and it was really interesting. A lot of real world examples, which was extremely helpful. And this guy is clearly a huge Joss Whedon fan, which made reading it all the more enjoyable! Highly recommend, I learned a lot and had fun doing it! ...more
Editorial Reviews ... Product Description | A professional TV writer’s real-world guide to getting paid to write great television "No need for me to ever write a book on TV writing. Alex Epstein has covered it all . . . along with a few things I wouldn't have thought of. Save yourself five years of rookie mistakes. Crafty TV Writing and talent are pretty much all you'll need to make it." —Ken Levine, writer/producer, MASH , Cheers , Frasier , The Simpsons , Wings , Becker Everyone watches television, and everyone has an opinion...more
The Big Book of TV Guide Crosswords #2 (No 2)
Customer Reviews [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2010-01-30 Summary: TV Crosswords ... My mother loves crosswords and I purchased this book for her this past Christmas :) She enjoyed receiving it and I am sure is having a wonderful time doing her puzzles :) ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-05-29 Summary: Great little crossword book ... I love the book. I've always loved TV Guide and always mADE the crossword puzzle. The prilnt is large enough to see easily. ...more
Editorial Reviews ... Product Description | Featuring more than 250 favorite TV Guide crossword puzzles, this colossal collection is guaranteed to provide hours of mind-puzzling fun....more