Quality TV

I. B. Tauris

2007

xx, 292 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-286) and index.

9781845115104

Preface / Robert J. Thompson -- Introdution: Debating quality / Janet McCabe and Kim Akass -- 'Quality TV' on show / Karen Fricker -- Pt. 1. Defining quality: critical judgements and debate. Is quality television any good? Generic distinction, evaluations and the troubling matter of critical judgement / Sarah Cardwell -- Quality TV: a US TV critic's perspective / David Bianculli -- Quality TV drama: estimations and influences through time and space / Robin Nelson -- As seen on TV: women's rights and quality television / Ashley Sayeau -- Sex, swearing and responsibility: courting controversy, HBO's original programming and producing quality TV / Janet McCabe and Kim Akass -- pt. 2. Defining quality: industry, policy and competitive markets. Quality control: The daily show, the Peabody and brand discipline / Jimmie L. Reeves, Mark C. Rogers and Michael M. Epstein -- Inside American television drama: quality is not what is produced, but what it produces / Peter Dunne -- Quality US TV: a buyer's perspective / Dermot Horan -- CSI: crime scene investigation: quality, the fifth channel and 'America's finest' / Ian Goode -- The problem of quality television: television schedules, audience demographics and cultural policy in New Zealand / Geoff Lealand -- pt. 3. Defining quality: aesthetics, form, content. HBO and the concept of quality TV / Jane Feuer -- Seeing and knowing: reflexivity and quality / Jonathan Bignell -- Quality and creativity in TV: the work of television storytellers / Máire Messenger Davies -- Mark Lawson talks to David Chase / Mark Lawson -- Writing music for quality TV: an interview with W.G. 'Snuffy' Walden / Peter Kaye -- Read any good television lately: Television companion books and quality TV / David Lavery -- Afterthought. Defining quality: into the future. Lost in translation: from post-network to post-television / Roberta Pearson.

Programmes examined include: The daily show, CSI crime scene investigation, Lost, Six feet under, The Sopranos, Buffy the vampire slayer, Desperate housewives, ER, Friends, Hill Street blues, The Mary Tyler Moore show, Nip/tuck, The Rockford files, Sex and the city, The shield, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, South Park, the Star trek series, Thirtysomething, Twin Peaks, The west wing, The X files.

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