{"id":3329,"date":"2006-09-18T02:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T07:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3329"},"modified":"2017-12-14T11:32:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T17:32:01","slug":"book-report-tv-now-stars-and-shows-by-dorothy-scheuer-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/18\/book-report-tv-now-stars-and-shows-by-dorothy-scheuer-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: TV Now: Stars and Shows by Dorothy Scheuer (1984)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I picked this book up at a book fair for a quarter because it’s like TV Superstars ’83<\/i><\/a>, and I already shot my credibility as a serious thinker by admitting a weird attraction to the Scholastic books covering television from the era in which these things mattered to me. Man, I remember the little one page tissue-paperesque book order forms from Scholastic, Tab, Arrow, and so on, and how one could buy real books for a buck or two for a paperback. Of course, we didn’t have a buck or two, so I just got to look at the catalogs and imagine (for the most part). And now, some twenty years later, I’m amassing a library which includes the occasional book I was denied in elementary school.<\/p>\n

This book, like the other, deals with television shows in the 1983-1984 time frame, so there’s quite a bit of overlap–Mr. T., Tootie Fields, Gary Coleman, and so on. But where TV Superstars ’83<\/i> filled out its pages with stars who’ve faded from even my memory, this book delves into the television industry, including chapters on the portrayal of technology on television, cable television, a bit about ratings, adulation for commercials, and musings about the future of interactive television. So this work might be the slightly more serious of the two.<\/p>\n

Like you’re going to run out and get it or click the link below to order it from Amazon. Still, I read it because it was a cheap and quick way to get another item on my annual list of what I’ve read and a last ditch Sunday night blog entry. But I read it, and here’s my post on it.<\/p>\n

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