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Article: Tome buzz nettles biz.(Bill Carter's new book "Desperate Networks")
- Article from:
- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- March 24, 2006
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A new inside-the-Beltway book about the TV biz doesn't hit shelves for another month, but advance copies are already making their way around the biz.
"Desperate Networks," by New York Times TV reporter Bill Carter, is ostensibly a year-in-the-life tome focused on the backstories surrounding hits and failures of the 2004-05 season. But as he did with "The Late Shift," Carter fills many pages with highly detailed anecdotes and accounts of conversations certain to raise the ire of many of the parties involved.
Among the tidbits:
* Warner Bros. TV was on track to land the rights to Marc Cherry's spec script for "Desperate Housewives" via Tony ...