TV Creators: Conversations with America's Top Producers of Television Drama

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Syracuse University Press, Nov 1, 2000 - Performing Arts - 26813 pages
ER, 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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James L. Longworth, Jr. is president of Longworth Productions. He is a fifty-year veteran producer of television public affairs programs and documentaries, and winner of the prestigious Spectrum of Democracy award. Longworth also writes a weekly column for YES! Weekly, and is a contributor to tvparty.com. He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and he resides just outside Winston-Salem, NC with his wife Pam.

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