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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 21 books in this booklist
£20.00 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526669902 | ISBN 10: 1526669900
By Mat Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, and Ben Willbond. The comic companion to the BBC sitcom GHOSTS, perfect for all the family. Everybody leaves a trace. The ghosts of Button House may h ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781789291650 | ISBN 10: 1789291658
The official companion to the hit TV show, Peaky Blinders, fully illustrated in colour. Packed full of behind-the-scenes stories and interviews with the cast and creators of the show, By Order of the Peaky Blinders is the first official book to take ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571342440 | ISBN 10: 0571342442
In recent years, the television landscape has seen the glorious rise of women to key positions of power within the industry, from writers to producers to directors. Successes like Shonda Rhimes’s Holy Trinity of shows as a producer — Grey’s Ana ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780857301758 | ISBN 10: 0857301756
The enormously puzzling TV series The Prisoner has developed a rapt cult following, and has often been described as 'surreal' or 'Kafkaesque.' Alex Cox watched all the episodes of The Prisoner on their first broadcast, at the ripe old age of ... more
View book details£12.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780898261 | ISBN 10: 1780898266
Remember when The Simpsons was the funniest show on television? The Simpsons is the longest running comedy in history. Gracing our screens since 1989, with over 600 episodes, the show is a cultural phenomenon. Whilst it is still drawing huge ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781925418477 | ISBN 10: 1925418472
For the Barb in all of us. In Stranger Things, Barb was a nerdy, faithful underdog – a minor character no one expected to break the internet. But Barb resonated with us – the chill, bespectacled BFF and her unjust abandonment hit a colle ... more
View book details£23.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780822358374 | ISBN 10: 0822358379
Soul! was where Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire got funky, where Toni Morrison read from her debut novel, where James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni discussed gender and power, and where Amiri Baraka and Stokely Carmichael enjoyed a sympathetic foru ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571315727 | ISBN 10: 0571315720
A wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Bringing together his diaries for 1980-1995, and the journal he kept during the production of Forty Years On, which starred John Gielgud, the book also includes accounts of his ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781846683923 | ISBN 10: 1846683920
The story of television and how it has changed our lives - from the moon landings to the X Factor. But what does your furniture point at?' asks the character Joey in the sitcom Friends on hearing an acquaintance has no TV. It's a good question: s ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408842812 | ISBN 10: 1408842815
You may have watched hundreds of episodes of The Simpsons (and its sister show Futurama) without ever realising that they contain enough maths to form an entire university course. In The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, Simon Singh explains h ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781848423602 | ISBN 10: 1848423608
Drawn from his published diaries, this is Michael Palin’s account of the making of the Monty Python TV and stage shows, films, books and albums. Monty Python at Work opens on 8th July 1969 with Michael Palin’s diary entry for the first day o ... more
View book details£19.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780765532 | ISBN 10: 1780765533
When you have been wandering the cosmos from one end of eternity to another for nearly a thousand years, what's your philosophy of life, the universe, and everything? Doctor Who is 50 years' old in 2013. Through its long life on television and beyond ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099569169 | ISBN 10: 0099569167
A masterclass in media studies from the creator of Grange Hill, Brookside and Hollyoaks. Described in Parliament as 'excellent' by Ed Vaizey, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport GRANGE HILL Swi ... more
View book details£19.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780764245 | ISBN 10: 1780764243
The complete and groundbreaking The L Word is now out on DVD and this book makes the perfect companion, covering the series in its entirety. Loving The L Word picks up where Reading "The L Word": Outing Contemporary Television (I.B. Tauris, 2006 ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781444705539 | ISBN 10: 1444705539
What drives a musician to write extraordinary songs? How do writers create their worlds? How does an actor achieve greatness? For over thirty years of The South Bank Show, Melvyn Bragg has interviewed many of the greatest cultural icons ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781847678416 | ISBN 10: 1847678416
Oliver Postgate's death in December 2008 was greeted with great sadness. For over forty years his name was synonymous with the best in children's television – Bagpuss, The Clangers, Ivor the Engine, The Pogles, Noggin the Nog, Pingwings. Oliver wrote ... more
View book details£9.99 hardback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781849540100 | ISBN 10: 1849540101
"Yes Minister is not a comedy. It is a civil service training manual"(David Davis) A collection of the funniest sketches, anecdotes, interviews, lists of interesting facts, character and actor profiles, and personal recollections from the endurin ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847674142 | ISBN 10: 1847674143
"Welcome to what will in no doubt be a groundbreaking work of collage / literature."(Howard Moon) "Hey Camden children, Vince here. Hope you dig the Boosh book and all the groovy photos Bollo took. Skip past Howard’s bits though. Well dry"(Vince N ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781845112462 | ISBN 10: 1845112466
The sexual politics of television culture is the territory covered by this ground-breaking book - the first to demonstrate the ways in which third wave feminist television studies approaches and illuminates mainstream TV. Leading voices in third wav ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781845111793 | ISBN 10: 1845111796
The L Word captured international attention when it first appeared on American screens in January 2004. The groundbreaking primetime drama from Showtime is about a group of lesbian & bisexual friends living & loving in Los Angeles, and challenges tr ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (1998) - ISBN 13: 9788185569383 | ISBN 10: 818556938x
A total departure from writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dangerous - to personal health and sanity, to the environment, a ... more
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