1. David Lavery Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture: Lost (Spring 2009)

2. New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, increase your necessity so that you may increase your perception. Jalaal al-Din Rumi

3. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Paul Abbott (UK, Shameless, State of Play) Television Creator

4. J. J. Abrams (US, Felicity, Alias, Lost, Fringe) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

5. Judd Apatow (US, Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

6. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Alan Ball (US, Six Feet Under, True Blood) Television Creator

7. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Roseanne Barr (US, Roseanne) Television Creator

8. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Carter Bays (r) and Craig Thomas (l) (US, How I Met Your Mother) Television Creators

9. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Don Belisario (US, Quantum Leap, Magnum, PI, JAG) Television Creator

10. Greg Berlanti (US, Everwood, Dirty Sexy Money) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

11. Peter Berg (US, Friday Night Lights) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

12. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Carol Black and Neal Marlens (pictured) (US, The Wonder Years, Growing Pains) Television Creator

13. Alan Bleasdale (UK, Boys from the Blackstuff) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

14. Steven Bochco (US, Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

15. James Brooks (US, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Simpsons) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

16. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Mark Burnett (UK/US, Survivor) Television Creator

17. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Stephen J. Cannell (US, The A-Team, The Rockford Files) Television Creator

18. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Glenn Gordon Caron (US, Moonlighting, Now and Again) Television Creator

19. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Chris Carter (US, The X-Files, Millennium) Television Creator

20. Shaun Cassidy (US, American Gothic, Invasion) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

21. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Glen (left) and Les (right) Charles (US, Taxi, Cheers) Television Creators

22. Irene Chaiken (US, The L- Word) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

23. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture David Chase (US, The Rockford Files, Northern Exposure, The Sopranos) Television Creator

24. Marc Cherry (US, Desperate Housewives) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

25. John Cleese (UK, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

26. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Bill Cosby (US, The Cosby Show) Television Creator

27. Richard Curtis (right) and Ben Elton (below) (UK, Blackadder) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creators

28. Greg Daniels (US, The Office) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

29. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Russell T. Davies (UK, Queer as Folk, Doctor Who, Torchwood) Television Creator

30. David Eick (US, Battlestar Galactica, Bionic Woman) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

31. Doug Ellin (US, Entourage) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

32. Michele Fazekas (right) & Tara Butters (left) (US, Reaper) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture

33. Paul Feig (US, Freaks and Geeks) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

34. Tina Fey (US, 30 Rock) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

35. Tom Fontana (US, Oz, Homicide) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

36. Bryan Fuller (US, Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me, Heroes, Pushing Daisies) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

37. Tony Garnett (UK, Cathy Come Home, This Life) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

38. Mark Gatiss, Jeremy Dyson (to the right), Steve Pemberton Reece Shearsmith (below) (UK, League of Gentlemen) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creators

39. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Larry Gelbart (US, M*A*S*H) Television Creator

40. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Ricky Gervais (left) and Stephen Merchant (right) (UK, The Office, Extras) Television Creators

41. Vince Gilligan (US, Breaking Bad) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

42. Jonathan Glassner (US, Stargate SG-1) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

43. Alfred Gough & Miles Millar (US, Smallville) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creators

44. Matthew Graham (on the right), Tony Jordan, Ashley Pharoah (on the left) (UK, Life on Mars) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creators

45. James Griffin and Rachel Lang (New Zealand, Outrageous Fortune) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creators

46. Matt Groening (US, The Simpsons, Futurama) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

47. Barbara Hall (US, Judging Amy, Joan of Arcadia) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

48. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Earl Hamner, Jr. (US, The Waltons) Television Creator

49. Brenda Hampton (US, Blossom, 7th Heaven) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

50. Hart Hanson (US, Bones) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

51. Bruno Heller (UK/US, Rome, The Mentalist) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

52. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Marshall Herskovitz (left) & Ed Zwick (right) (US, thirtysomething, My So- Called Life) Television Creators

53. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Winnie Holzman (US, My So- Called Life) Television Creator

54. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Paul Henning (US, Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction) Television Creator

55. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Roy Huggins (US, 77 Sunset Strip, Maverick, The F.B.I., The Fugitive) Television Creator

56. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Mitchell Hurwitz (US, Arrested Development ) Television Creator

57. Amy Jenkins (UK, This Life) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

58. Tom Kapinos (US, Californication) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

59. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Jason Katims (US, Roswell, Friday Night Lights) Television Creator

60. David E. Kelley [US]: Ally McBeal, The Practice, Boston Legal, Picket Fences Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

61. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Glen Kessler, Daniel Zelman, Todd Kessler (US, Damages) Television Creators

62. Michael Patrick King (L) & Darren Star (R) (US, Sex and the City) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creators

63. Daniel Knauf (US, Carnivale) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

64. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture David Kohan & Max Mutchnick (US, Will & Grace) Television Creators

65. Jenji Kohan (US, Weeds) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

66. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Tim Kring (US, Crossing Jordan, Heroes) Television Creator

67. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Eric Kripke (US, Supernatural) Television Creator

68. Lynda LaPlante (UK, Prime Suspect) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

69. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Glen Larson (US, Battlestar Galactica-- original) Television Creator

70. Denis Leary (right) and Peter Dolan (left) (US, Rescue Me) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creators

71. Norman Lear (US, All in the Family, The Jeffersons) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

72. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Richard Levinson (left) and William Link (right) (US, Columbo) Television Creators

73. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Damon Lindelof (left) and Carlton Cuse (right) (US, Crossing Jordan, Lost) Television Creators

74. Graham Linehan (L) and Arthur Mathews (R) (UK, Father Ted) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creators

75. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Chuck Lorre (US, Two and a Half Men, Big Bang Theory) Television Creator

76. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture David Lynch & Mark Frost (US, Twin Peaks) Television Creators

77. William J. MacDonald, John Milius and Bruno Heller (US/UK, Rome) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creators

78. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Michael Mann (US, Miami Vice) Television Creator

79. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Jean Marsh (UK, Upstairs, Downstairs) Television Creator

80. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Quinn Martin (US, The F.B.I.) Television Creator

81. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Patrick McGoohan (UK, The Prisoner) Television Creator

82. Terry McGovern (UK, Cracker, The Street) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

83. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Lorne Michaels (US, Saturday Night Live) Television Creator

84. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture David Milch (US, Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, Deadwood, John from Cincinnati) Television Creator

85. Tim Minear (US, Angel, Wonderfalls, Firefly, The Inside, Drive) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

86. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Ronald D. Moore (US, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Carnivale, Battlestar Galactica) Television Creator

87. Ryan Murphy (US, Nip/Tuck) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

88. Terry Nation (UK, Doctor Who) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

89. Sydney Newman (UK, Doctor Who, The Avengers) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

90. Grant Naylor (Rob Grant and Doug Naylor—front row) (UK, Red Dwarf) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creators

91. Rockne O’Bannon (US, Farscape) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

92. Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer (US, Big Love) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creators

93. Stephen Poliakoff (UK, Shooting the Past, Capturing Mary) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

94. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Dennis Potter (UK, The Singing Detective, Pennies from Heaven) Television Creator

95. Rand Ravich (US, Life) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

96. David Renwick (UK, One Foot in the Grave) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

97. Shonda Rhimes (US), Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

98. Gina Riley & Jane Turner (Australia, Kath and Kim) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creators

99. Gene Roddenberry (US, Star Trek, Stark Trek: The Next Generation) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

100. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Shaun Ryan (US, The Shield, The Unit) Television Creator

101. Jennifer Saunders (UK, Absolutely Fabulous) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

102. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Paul Scheuring (US, Prison Break) Television Creator

103. Josh Schwarz (US, The O.C., Gossip Girl, Chuck) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

104. Jerry Seinfeld (US, Seinfeld) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

105. Rod Serling (US, Twilight Zone) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

106. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture David Simon (US, Homicide, The Wire) Television Creator

107. Gzrry Shandling (US, The Larry Sanders Show) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

108. Aaron Sorkin (US, Sports Night, West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

109. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Aaron Spelling (US, Fantasy Island, Charlie’s Angel, Dynasty, Love Boat, Starsky and Hutch) Television Creator

110. Jessica Stevenson & Simon Legg (UK, Spaced) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creators

111. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Matt Stone (left) and Trey Parker (right) (US, South Park) Television Creators

112. J. Michael Straczynski (US, Babylon 5) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

113. Grant Tinker (US, The Mary Tyler Moore) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

114. David Walliams & Matt Lucas (UK, Little Britain) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creators

115. Reg Watson (Australia, Neighbours Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

116. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Jay Ward (US, Rocky and Bullwinkle, George of the Jungle) Television Creator

117. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Matthew Weiner (US, The Sopranos, Mad Men) Television Creator

118. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Joss Whedon (US, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse) Television Creator

119. Dick Wolf (US, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

120. David Wolstencroft (UK, Spooks) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

121. Anthony Zuicker (US, CSI) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture Television Creator

122. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture

123. The Parallel Courses of Cinema & TV Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture

124. François Truffaut, "Une Certaine Tendance du Cinéma Français" ("A Certain Tendency in French Cinema"), Cahiers du Cinéma (1954) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture

125. Andrew Sarris (US): Auteurism’s American champion Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture

126. Drawing on the original insights of the French, the American critic Andrew Sarris translated the auteur theory into an American idiom. For a time, under the influence of Sarris’ goal of converting "film history into directorial autobiography," American intellectuals interested in the movies began to think and talk and understand the movies through the specially-ground lenses provided by the auteur theory. "Over a group of films," Sarris insisted in what amounts to his foundational principle, "a director must exhibit certain recurrent characteristics of style, which serve as his signature. The way a film looks and moves should have some relationship to the way a director thinks and feels" (Sarris 586).

127. Truffaut formulated the original auteur theory in opposition to the monopolization of film art by writers, Sarris’ critical venture was likewise undertaken "against the wind." He sought to undermine the too-great hold of sociological and political critics. He wanted to talk about the art in the movies he loved, not their social significance. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture

128. “Auteurism was... a palimpsest of influences, combining romantic expressive notions of the artist, modernist-formalist notions of stylistic discontinuity and fragmentation, and a ‘proto-postmodern,’ fondness for “lower” arts and genres. The real scandal of the auteur theory lay not so much in glorifying the director as the equivalent in prestige to the literary author, but rather, in exactly who was granted this prestige.” Robert Stam (87) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture

129. “In its more extreme incarnations auteurism can be seen as an anthropomorphic form of ‘love’ for the cinema. The same love that had formerly been lavished on stars, or that formalists lavished on artistic devices, the auteurists now lavished on the men—and they largely were men—who incarnated the auteurists’ idea of cinema. Film was resurrected as secular religion; the ‘aura’ was back in force thanks to the cult of the auteur.” Robert Stam (88) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture

130. The auteur theory’s appeal, the critic Peter Wollen has noted, was obvious: it "implie[d] an operation of decipherment... reveal[ing] authors where none had been seen before" (77). Film directors, it was argued, and soon thereafter generally assumed, could put their stamp on a wide variety of movies, even in several genres. Their attention was not focused solely on American directors, of course; they also singled out for praise French auteurs like Abel Gance, Jean Vigo, and Jean Renoir. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture

131. The auteur theory was ready to accept, of course, that "Just as not every conductor is a Leonard Bernstein, so not every director is an Alfed Hitchcock" [Dick 147]), and under its influence not all directors became maestros—those individuals Sarris categorized as "Pantheon Directors"--but many shed their anonymity, their earlier work now retrospectfully interesting, their new films anticipated. The works of a wide variety of directors were catalogued, in some cases exhaustively. And it was not only the movies of these directors that came in for greater scrutiny. The writings of auteurs and available interviews with them concerning their film aesthetics and methods were also put under the microscope. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture

132. Death of the Author

133. Barthes, Roland. "The Death of the Author.” Image, Music, Text. Trans. Stephen Heath. New York: Hill and Wang, 1977. 142 ‑ 48. Foucault, Michael. "What is an Author?" The Foucault Reader. Ed. Paul Rabinow. New York: Pantheon, 1984. 101 ‑ 20. Gass, William H. ''The Death of the Author." Habitations of the Word: Essays. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985. 265 ‑ 88. Death of the Author Barthes, Foucault, Gass (l-r)

134. According to post-modernist critical theory we are—in Derrida's phrase—"logocentric." Routinely, naively we assume that the sounds uttered by a speaker make manifest precise meanings present within. We take it for granted that the "signifier" of a speaker's language is "but a temporary representation through which one moves to get at the signified, which is what the speaker, in that revealing English phrase, 'has in mind'" (Culler, Ferdinand de Saussure, 119-20). Death of the Author Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture

135. Semiotic inquiry often leads to similar conclusions, as in Umberto Eco's statement of post-modernist faith that "all works are created by works" and "texts... created by texts"; "literature comes from literature, cinema comes from cinema" (199). Today's audience (readers or viewers) of "instinctive semioticians" immediately recognizes that "all together they [the archetypes of art] speak to each other independently of the intention of their authors" (210). Indeed, Eco observes profoundly in an essay on Casablanca and the cult film, Death of the Author Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture

136. As a corrective, deconstructionism would eliminate entirely the fiction of a speaking or writing subject. For Derrida, "the author deliquesces into writing-as-such and the reader into reading-as-such, and what writing-as-such effects and reading-as-such engages is not a work of literature but a text, writing, 'ecriture" (Abrams 567). And even though Harold Bloom has taken pains to distinguish his multi-volume analysis of the "anxiety of influence" from the anti-humanism of a Derrida, his thesis that no poet speaks entirely in his or her own voice but rather struggles, always in the end unsuccessfully, to escape the more powerful voice of ancestral poets, obviously contributes to our failing faith in the power of the author and transforms inspiration into a merely inter- textual matter. Death of the Author Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture

137. We do much the same with texts. "In primitive societies," Roland Barthes reminds in his essay on "The Death of the Author," "narrative is never undertaken by a person, but by a mediator, shaman or speaker, whose 'performance' may be admired (that is, his mastery of the narrative code), but not his 'genius'" (142). In literate societies, however, we have created the whole institution of authorship— largely forgetting, however, that the author is a recent invention. Death of the Author Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture

138. Only five centuries ago, Michel Foucault asks us to remember in his essay "What is an Author?", texts now thought of as literary were "accepted, put into circulation, and valorized without any question about the identity of their author; their anonymity caused no difficulties since their ancientness, whether real or imagined, was regarded as sufficient guarantee of their status.” Death of the Author Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture

139. "On the other hand," Foucault observes, "those texts that we now call scientific—those dealing with cosmology and the heavens, medicine and illnesses, natural sciences and geography—were accepted in the Middle Ages, and accepted as 'true,' only when marked with the name of their author. 'Hippocrates said,' 'Pliny recounts,' were not really formulas of an argument based on authority; they were the markers inserted in discourses that were supported to be received as statements of demonstrated truth" (109). Death of the Author Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture

140. William Gass' fine essay on "The Death of the Author" offers a dissenting opinion on Barthes' contention, noting that Barthes' obituary, substituting wish for deed, was premature: "when, in 1968, Roland Barthes announced the death of the author, he was actually calling for it." In Gass' opinion, the death of the author is comic, not tragic; it "signifies a decline in authority, in theological power, as if Zeus were stripped of his thunderbolts and swans, perhaps residing on Olympus still, but now living in a camper and cooking with propane. He is, but he is no longer a god" (265). Death of the Author Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture

141. “[B]ecause of the technological complexity of the medium and as a result of the application to most commercial television production of the principles of modern industrial organization..., it is very difficult to locate the ‘author ’ of a television program—if by that we mean the single individual who provides the unifying vision behind the program.” Robert C. Allen Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture TV Authorship

142. “[Newcomb and Alley] demonstrated that despite the gigantic constituent corporate bureaucracies of this most massive of mass media—networks, advertising agencies, production companies, ratings organizations, federal regulatory authorities—the autobiographical visions of individual did manage to break through onto the television screen, just as the personal visions of artists had managed to reach expression in the older, preelectronic arts. Were these visions mitigated or, in effect, edited by television’s trilateral nature of industry, technology, and art? Certainly. But when and where had an art ever developed independently of other factors?” David Marc & Robert Thompson, Prime Time, Prime Movers Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture TV Authorship

143. While television exhibits many of the characteristics of open or writerly text it also differs from them in one fundamental characteristic: television popular, whereas open, writerly texts (in the way that Eco and Barthes originally theorized them) are typically avant-garde, highbrow ones wit minority appeal. Television, as a popular medium, needs to be thought of as "producerly." A producerly text combines the televisual characteristics of writerly text with the easy accessibility of the readerly. John Fiske, Television Culture Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture TV Authorship

144. Unlike the writerly avant-garde text, television does not work with an authorial voice that uses unfamiliar discourse in order to draw attention to its discursivity. The avant garde author-artist will shock the reader into recognition of the text's discursive structure and will require the reader to learn new discursive competencies in order to participate with it in a writerly way in the production of meaning and pleasure. The producerly text, on the other hand, relies discursive competencies that the viewer already possesses, but requires that they are used in a self-interested, productive way: the producerly text can therefore, be popular in a way that the writerly text cannot. John Fiske, Television Culture Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture TV Authorship

145. “A self-conscious creative producer may be able to take what appears to be a mundane idea, a cast of no distinction, or writing that seems to be ordinary and conventional, and transform it into a better sort of television. When the happy circumstance arises in which the producer is able to assemble the best writers, actors, directors, and film editors, and is able to impress upon them a central concept that speaks his vision, then the potential is present for exceptional work. It can be created because art is mastery, discipline, and vision. It is the ability to mold constraint into a creative contour. ” (Newcomb and Alley, xii-xiv) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture TV Authorship

146. “The quality audience gets to separate itself from the mass audience and can watch TV without guilt, and without realizing that the double-edge discourse they are getting is also ordinary TV.” Jane Feuer (80) Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture TV Authorship

147. Why TV is Better Than the Movies (Entertainment Weekly) 1. Women thrive on TV. 2. We care more about TV characters. 3. TV does better with drama. 4. In TV, the writer rules. 5. TV is more fun to talk about. 6. TV deals with mature themes more maturely. 7. TV is more convenient. 8. TV does better with less money. 9. On TV, you can change the channel. Television Creativity Special Topics in Popular Culture