The Platinum Age of Television

The Platinum Age of TelevisionBy: David Bianculli 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

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the brilliant yet mysterious Doctor Godwin

Eve fights back

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Budi Darma draws us to a universality recognized by readers around the world—the cruelty of life and the difficulties that people face in relating to one another while negotiating their own identities

Whiskers’ primary science classes

“An extra-special extrasensory suspense story with unexpected twists and turns

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Gene was a professional by the age of thirteen and soon made his first recordings

But Luna is not who she used to be

Rebellion and Death displays Camus' rigorous moral intelligence addressing issues that range from colonial warfare in Algeria to the social cancer of capital punishment

'Her eloquence in the language of human sexual transactions is chilling