The Platinum Age of Television
From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific
(Sprache: Englisch)
Television today is better than ever. From The Sopranos to Breaking Bad, Sex and the City to Girls, and Modern Family to Louie, never has so much quality programming dominated our screens. Exploring how we got here, acclaimed TV critic David Bianculli...
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Television today is better than ever. From The Sopranos to Breaking Bad, Sex and the City to Girls, and Modern Family to Louie, never has so much quality programming dominated our screens. Exploring how we got here, acclaimed TV critic David Bianculli traces the evolution of the classic TV genres, among them the sitcom, the crime show, the miniseries, the soap opera, the Western, the animated series, the medical drama, and the variety show. In each genre he selects five key examples of the form to illustrate its continuities and its dramatic departures. Drawing on exclusive and in-depth interviews with many of the most famed auteurs in television history, Bianculli shows how the medium has evolved into the premier form of visual narrative art.Includes interviews with: MEL BROOKS, MATT GROENING, DAVID CHASE, KEVIN SPACEY, AMY SCHUMER, VINCE GILLIGAN, AARON SORKIN, MATTHEW WEINER, JUDD APATOW, LOUIS C.K., DAVID MILCH, DAVID E. KELLEY, JAMES L. BROOKS, LARRY DAVID, KEN BURNS, LARRY WILMORE, AND MANY, MANY MORE
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1 CHILDREN S PROGRAMSKEY EVOLUTIONARY STAGES
The Mickey Mouse Club1955 59, ABC
Captain Kangaroo1955 84, CBS
Mister Rogers Neighborhood1968 2001, NET/PBS
Sesame Street1969 , PBS; 2016 , HBO
Pee-Wee s Playhouse1986 91, CBS
No matter where you grew up, and for the most part no matter when, your TV was most likely populated by local shows made especially for children. The earliest ones were hosted by earnest, often costumed adults, presenting old theatrical cartoons and/or interacting with puppets or marionettes. Some of these early homegrown pioneers matured into national shows presented by one of the major broadcast networks, such as NBC s Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, which had begun on local TV in Chicago in 1947. But others, from 1948 s Junior Frolics (a cartoon showcase from Newark, New Jersey, hosted by Uncle Fred Sayles) to 1950 s Popeye Theater (a weekday afternoon Philadelphia children s show hosted for more than twenty years by the cowgirl Sally Starr), remained proudly local for their entire runs. Wherever you lived, if television was a part of your early life, so was children s TV. I was born in Pittsburgh in 1953, and one of my first TV memories is of watching a local public television show called The Children s Corner, hosted by Josie Carey starting in 1954, and featuring her interacting with such puppets as Daniel Striped Tiger and King Friday XIII puppets created and voiced by the show s producer and music composer, Fred Rogers, years before he would launch his own successful children s series, Mister Rogers Neighborhood.
Technically, the earliest TV children s show host might have been Burr Tillstrom, the puppeteer creator and voice of the clown-like Kukla, the friendly dragon Ollie, and other whimsical hand-puppet characters. He and his puppets appeared on TV before there was broadcast TV, as featured players during RCA s television exhibition at the 1939 40 New York World s Fair. After World War II, when television production began
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in earnest, Tillstrom teamed with the Chicago radio personality Fran Allison in 1947 on a local children s show, giving her equal billing with two of his puppet creations. Within a year, Kukla, Fran, and Ollie was a popular national offering on the NBC network, where it lasted for an entire decade.
That show s NBC lead-in, running at five o clock weekdays on the East Coast, was even more popular and ranks as TV s first runaway children s TV hit. It began as Puppet Playhouse in 1947, back when NBC s network of stations was limited to a few cities along the northeast corridor, and premiered at a time when the concept of using television as a babysitter, previously unheard of, was instantly embraced. In a rave review of the debut of Puppet Playhouse that today would incense child advocates and women alike, Variety wrote, In the middle-class home, there is perhaps nothing as welcome to the mother as something that will keep the small fry intently absorbed and out of possible mischief. This program can almost be guaranteed to pin down the squirmiest of the brood. Puppet Playhouse was created and hosted by Buffalo Bob Smith, but the show was quickly renamed Howdy Doody, after his marionette co-star. Like many children s shows that followed it, Howdy Doody featured a studio audience of overstimulated, sugar-engorged kids (called, in this case, the Peanut Gallery). It also featured a silent, horn-honking clown named Clarabell (played, over the course of the series, by three different actors, including the future Captain Kangaroo host, Bob Keeshan); the beautiful princess Summerfall Winterspring (played by Judy Tyler, who would go on to star in Jailhouse Rock opposite E
That show s NBC lead-in, running at five o clock weekdays on the East Coast, was even more popular and ranks as TV s first runaway children s TV hit. It began as Puppet Playhouse in 1947, back when NBC s network of stations was limited to a few cities along the northeast corridor, and premiered at a time when the concept of using television as a babysitter, previously unheard of, was instantly embraced. In a rave review of the debut of Puppet Playhouse that today would incense child advocates and women alike, Variety wrote, In the middle-class home, there is perhaps nothing as welcome to the mother as something that will keep the small fry intently absorbed and out of possible mischief. This program can almost be guaranteed to pin down the squirmiest of the brood. Puppet Playhouse was created and hosted by Buffalo Bob Smith, but the show was quickly renamed Howdy Doody, after his marionette co-star. Like many children s shows that followed it, Howdy Doody featured a studio audience of overstimulated, sugar-engorged kids (called, in this case, the Peanut Gallery). It also featured a silent, horn-honking clown named Clarabell (played, over the course of the series, by three different actors, including the future Captain Kangaroo host, Bob Keeshan); the beautiful princess Summerfall Winterspring (played by Judy Tyler, who would go on to star in Jailhouse Rock opposite E
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Autoren-Porträt von David Bianculli
David Bianculli is a guest host and TV critic on NPR s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. A contributor to the show since its inception, he has been a TV critic since 1975. From 1993 to 2007 Bianculli was a TV critic for the New York Daily News. He has written three other books: Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Teleliteracy: Taking Television Seriously, and Dictionary of Teleliteracy: Television's 500 Biggest Hits, Misses, and Events. An associate professor of TV and film at Rowan University in New Jersey, Bianculli is also the founder and editor of the online magazine TVWorthWatching.www.tvworthwatching.com
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: David Bianculli
- 2017, 592 Seiten, 91 Abbildungen, Maße: 15,6 x 23,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Anchor Books
- ISBN-10: 1101911328
- ISBN-13: 9781101911327
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.08.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
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An effusive guidebook. . . . A highly readable history. The Washington PostWith this combination of historical perspective, critical insight and effective interviews, Mr. Bianculli makes a persuasive argument for television as a medium that is evolving constantly. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
[Bianculli] brings his sense of appreciation, historical perspective and behind-the-scenes dish to dozens of the shows that transfixed and transformed generations. The Sacramento Bee
David Bianculli sets the gold standard for The Platinum Age of Television. Vanity Fair
Excellent . . . a rousing rundown of the history of the medium and how it became the pop-cultural, multi-platform programming colossus of today. Through thoughtful, engaging, entertaining essays. . . . [Bianculli] guides readers though an ever-changing road map of themes, formats, stars and styles. Parade
A wise, engaging celebration of a type of entertainment that s as much of an art form as it is a pastime. NPR
Wonderful. . . . A must for anyone who has been enthralled by the images and stories on television. AP
[Bianculli has] a keen eye for crucial crossroads, missing links, and turning points. . . . [The] interviews are truly a book within the book, funny, surprising, and enlightening. The Philadelphia Inquirer
[A] wide-ranging personal tour of TV, genre by genre. . . . An anecdotal road trip with refueling stops to flesh out 90 key programs, from I Love Lucy to Empire, so deftly summarized that it feels you ve just watched them again (or now want to). Newsday
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