Author: Clive James
Narrator: Clive Chafer
Unabridged: 4 hr 47 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published: 08/30/2016
Genre: Performing Arts - Television
Television and TV viewing are not what they once wereand thats a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic Clive James. Since serving as television columnist for the London Observer from 1972 to 1982, James has witnessed a radical change in content, format, and programming, and in the very manner in which television is watched. Here he examines this unique cultural revolution, providing a brilliant, eminently entertaining analysis of many of the mediums most notable twenty-first-century accomplishments and their not-always-subtle impact on modern societyincluding such acclaimed serial dramas as Breaking Bad, The West Wing, Mad Men, and The Sopranos, as well as the comedy 30 Rock. With intelligence and wit, James explores a television landscape expanded by cable and broadband and profoundly altered by the advent of Netflix, Amazon, and other cord-cutting platforms that have helped to usher in a golden age of unabashed binge-watching.