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Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV
Authored by Peter Biskind
Narrated by Robert Petkoff

0:00 Intro
0:03 Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV
0:40 Introduction: Broadcast Blues
13:01 PART I: “IT’S NOT TELEVISION. IT’S HBO.”
15:40 Outro

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

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.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

PETER BISKIND is a cultural critic and film historian. He was editor in chief of American Film magazine from 1981 to 1986, and executive editor of Premiere magazine from 1986 to 1996. His writing has appeared in scores of national publications, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, The Nation, Newsweek, and The Washington Post, as well as film periodicals such as Sight and Sound and Film Quarterly. He is currently a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He has published eight books, including the bestsellers Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, that have been translated into several languages. He is executive director of the annual Film–Columbia Festival held in the Hudson Valley.

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

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Language: English
Publisher: William Morrow
Published on: November 7, 2023
ISBN: 9780063322004
Duration: 12 hr, 41 min
Genres: Business & Economics / Industries / Media & Communications, Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism, Social Science / Media Studies