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Article: Desperate Networks.(Book review)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- May 2, 2006
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Bill Carter (Doubleday: 404 pgs.; $26.95)
Like much reporting about the entertainment industry, Bill Carter's meticulous deconstruction of TV's hit-making apparatus labors to be inclusive but doesn't establish why anybody whose name isn't in the index should remotely care. Although the New York Times reporter enjoys first-rate access to dealmakers, this detail-laden tome lacks the sort of juicy revelations that distinguished Carter's earlier "The Late Shift," and his contention that the 2004-05 season is a "watershed" that prompted a "seismic shift" in TV feels more like a marketing hook than a convincing premise. For a book obsessed with hits, score this one a ...
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Article: Desperate networks: They're finally firing back ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;
September 11, 2004 ;
700+ words
...Byline: Ken Parish Perkins We now return you to your regularly scheduled television season. Good luck finding it. It either began a month ago (according to WB), or two weeks ago (according to NBC). ABC would say it starts now; CBS and UPN favor late September, and Fox, well, it's fond of summer,
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