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Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as television)
avg rating 4.08 — 20,668 ratings — published 2002
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 68 times as television)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,074,216 ratings — published 2011
The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as television)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,272 ratings — published 2020
The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as television)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,838 ratings — published 2012
Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as television)
avg rating 3.72 — 10,099 ratings — published 2016
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as television)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,760 ratings — published 2019
The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as television)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,826 ratings — published 2010
Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as television)
avg rating 3.92 — 11,338 ratings — published 2024
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as television)
avg rating 4.17 — 41,710 ratings — published 1985
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as television)
avg rating 3.85 — 565,349 ratings — published 2014
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as television)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,621 ratings — published 2008
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as television)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,290,750 ratings — published 2008
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as television)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,627,537 ratings — published 2022
TV (the Book): Two Experts Pick the Greatest American Shows of All Time
by (shelved 33 times as television)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,949 ratings — published 2016
Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as television)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,584 ratings — published 2013
Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as television)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,244 ratings — published 2012
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 31 times as television)
avg rating 3.86 — 518,406 ratings — published 2011
I Am America (And So Can You!)
by (shelved 31 times as television)
avg rating 3.90 — 85,023 ratings — published 2007
Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And All the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as television)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,437 ratings — published 2013
The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family (The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as television)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,797 ratings — published 1995
I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as television)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,982 ratings — published 2011
Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as television)
avg rating 3.76 — 14,708 ratings — published 2011
The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno & the Network Battle for the Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as television)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,730 ratings — published 1994
The Sopranos Sessions: Comprehensive critical companion breaking down every scene and symbol in The Sopranos. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as television)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,398 ratings — published 2019
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as television)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,339,392 ratings — published 2009
The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as television)
avg rating 4.31 — 147,485 ratings — published 2024
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)
by (shelved 23 times as television)
avg rating 3.94 — 171,266 ratings — published 2016
The Secret History of Twin Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as television)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,424 ratings — published 2016
The Daily Show (The Audiobook): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests
by (shelved 22 times as television)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,928 ratings — published 2016
The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There (ebook)
by (shelved 21 times as television)
avg rating 4.22 — 37,663 ratings — published 2022
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 21 times as television)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,879,571 ratings — published 2010
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as television)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,399 ratings — published 2010
Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as television)
avg rating 4.51 — 2,634 ratings — published 2008
All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as television)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,549 ratings — published 2018
Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as television)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,355 ratings — published 2005
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as television)
avg rating 3.84 — 16,883 ratings — published 1990
In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as television)
avg rating 3.84 — 8,245 ratings — published 2016
Jim Henson: The Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as television)
avg rating 4.04 — 15,907 ratings — published 2013
The Running Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as television)
avg rating 3.87 — 181,554 ratings — published 1982
Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as television)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,634 ratings — published 2009
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as television)
avg rating 3.95 — 425,133 ratings — published 2022
The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line (Veronica Mars, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as television)
avg rating 3.98 — 46,859 ratings — published 2014
Clockwork Orange (ScreenPress Film Screenplays)
by (shelved 18 times as television)
avg rating 4.23 — 14,472 ratings — published 1972
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as television)
avg rating 3.88 — 109,128 ratings — published 2007
The Twilight Zone Companion (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as television)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,140 ratings — published 1982
Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as television)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,266 ratings — published 2025
Welcome to Dunder Mifflin: The Ultimate Oral History of The Office (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as television)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,933 ratings — published 2021
My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as television)
avg rating 3.90 — 15,532 ratings — published 2011
The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-present (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as television)
avg rating 4.38 — 185 ratings — published 1979
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as television)
avg rating 3.91 — 47,564 ratings — published 1974
“It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television?
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”
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By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”
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“If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?”
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