TV Finales FAQ: All That's Left to Know about the Endings of Your Favorite TV Shows (FAQ Series) (The FAQ Series) - Softcover

Stephen Tropiano; Holly Van Buren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1480391441 ISBN 13: 9781480391444

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 2015

Synopsis

TV Series Finales FAQ is the first book devoted exclusively to television's most memorable series finales. From Mary Richards' heartfelt goodbye to the WJM-TV newsroom in the classic finale of The Mary Tyler Moore Show to the puzzling conclusion of the enigmatic adventure series, Lost, to the tumultuous final hours in the life of Breaking Bad's Walter White, TV Series Finales FAQ takes an up close, insightful, and entertaining look at the most memorable final episodes of television's most popular prime time, daytime, and late night series. Crafting the final episode to a long-running television series can be challenging for producers and writers who want to remain faithful to the show's characters and history, yet, at the same time, satisfy the high expectations of its loyal fan base. TV Series Finales FAQ offers television viewers the inside story on the creation, broadcast, and aftermath of the most famous (and infamous) final episodes of over 50 television series from the 1960s through the present day. The books features such shows as Dexter, Roseanne, Will and Grace, X-Files, The Sopranos, and some classic talk and late-night programs such as The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and many others.

About this title

About the Author

STEPHEN TROPIANO (Los Angeles) is the author of Saturday Night Live FAQ, The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on Television, and books on the film musicals Grease and Cabaret for Limelight Editions' Music on Film series. He is the director of the Ithaca College Los Angeles Program, where he teaches courses in film and television theory and criticism. HOLLY VAN BUREN (New York) earned her MA in Critical Studies at the University of Southern California and is the lead assistant to the Director of Repertory Programming at Film Forum, a non-profit cinema in New York City. She has collaborated with Stephen Tropiano as a researcher for several of his books for Hal Leonard, including Obscene, Indecent, Immoral and Offensive: 100+ Years of Censored, Banned, and Controversial Films; Cabaret: Music on Film, and Saturday Night Live FAQ.

Edition details

• Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1480391441
• ISBN 13: 9781480391444
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400