TV Creators: Conversations with America's Top Producers of Television DramaER, Law & Order, and The Sopranos are just a few of the dramas that launched a new era of television at the tum of the millennium. TV Creators gives scholars and fans alike an exclusive, firsthand account of the lives, philosophies, and contributions of the writers and producers responsible for these and other outstanding prime time programs. James Longworth affords twelve outstanding creators of television drama an open, uncensored forum in which they discuss everything from their work ethic to the political and social issues affecting the television industry. |
Contents
DICK WOLF Law Man | 1 |
DAVID CHASE Hit Man | 20 |
TOM FONTANA The wizard of Oz | 37 |
NANCY MILLER | 54 |
MARSHALL HERSKOVITZ | 72 |
BRENDA HAMPTON Friend of the Family | 137 |
Man of Action | 155 |
BARRY LEVINSON Rebel with a cause | 174 |
STEVEN BOCHCO Legend of the Fall | 191 |
TV DramaA Case | 210 |
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