Inside Prime Time

`Todd Gitlin's Inside Prime Time is perhaps the best book ever written about the thinking of the insulated men and women in the executive suites of Century City, Burbank and Television City.' - Los Angeles Times`This is very likely the most concentratedly intelligent book yet written about television' - Film Quarterly`Inside Prime Time presents the richest information ever collected on the inner workings of America's chief culture industry' - Commonweal

• Prologue; Part 1 Nothing Succeeds Like Success; Chapter 1 The Problem of Knowing; Chapter 2 Predicting the Unpredictable; Chapter 3 By the Numbers; Chapter 4 Making Schedules; Chapter 5 The Triumph of the Synthetic; Chapter 6 “Another American Dream Gone Astray”; Part 2 The Television-Industrial Complex; Chapter 7 Inside Tracks in a Small World; Chapter 8 The Deal Is the Art Form; Chapter 9 Movies of the Week; Part 3 The Politics of Prime Time; Chapter 10 The Turn Toward “Relevance”; Chapter 11 Shifting Right; Chapter 12 The “Far Righteous” Shake the Temple of Commerce; Chapter 13 The Temple Stands; Chapter 14 Hill Street Blues;