{"product_id":"9780062991669-pandoras-box-how-guts-guile-and-greed-upended-tv","title":"Biskind Peter - Pandora's Box How Guts Guile And Greed Upended Tv - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: A NEW Yorker BEST Books OF 2023 Selection Biskind's saga about the rise and fall of prestige television explains in punchy propulsive prose how we went from Tony Soprano to Ted Lasso. New Yorker Bestselling author of Easy Riders Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures cultural critic Peter Biskind turns his eye toward the new golden age of television sparked by the fall of play - it - safe network TV and the rise of boundary - busting cable followed by streaming which overturned both based on exclusive candid and colorful interviews with executives writers showrunners directors and actors We are now lucky enough to be living through the era of so - called Peak TV in which television in its various guises and formats has seized the entertainment mantle from movies and dominates our leisure time. How and why this happened is the subject of this book. Instead of focusing on one service like HBO Pandora's Box asks What did HBO do besides give us The Sopranos? The answer: It gave us a revolution. Biskind bites off a big chunk of entertainment history following HBO from its birth into maturity moving on to the basic cablers like FX and AMC and ending up with the streamers and their wars pitting Netflix against Amazon Prime Video Max and the killer pluses Disney Apple TV and Paramount. Since the creative and business sides of TV are thoroughly entwined Biskind examines both and the interplay between them. Through frank and shockingly intimate interviews with creators and executives Pandora's Box investigates the dynamic interplay of commerce and art through the lens the game - changing shows they aired not only old warhorses like The Sopranos but recent shows like The White Lotus Succession and Yellow - (both - stone and - jackets) as windows into the byzantine practices of the players as they use money and guile to destroy their competitors. In the end this book crystal - balls the future in light of the success and failures of the streamers that after apparently clearing the board now face life - threatening problems some self - created some not. With its long view and short takes riveting snapshots of behind - the - scenes mischief Pandora's Box is the only book you ll need to read to understand what's on your small screen and how it got there.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Pandora's Box How Guts Guile And Greed Upended Tv\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Biskind Peter\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Harpercollins\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780062991669\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 400 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 11\/7\/2023\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Biskind Peter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49590283698481,"sku":"IN-G-9780062991669","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780062991669-pandoras-box-how-guts-guile-and-greed-upended-tv","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}