Bøker av Wesley Hyatt

This is the HARDBACK version. You're probably still laughing. If you have seen The Carol Burnett Show, you remember the unbridled hilarity of the sketches performed by Carol, Harvey Korman, Tim Conway, Vicki Lawrence, Dick Van Dyke, Lyle Waggoner, and frequent guest stars Cass Elliot, Bernadette Peters, Paul Lynde, Eydie Gorme, Jim Nabors, Mel Torme, and Nancy Wilson.Discover the complete history of The Carol Burnett Show, from its origins as a potential series through later DVD releases. All 11 seasons and 276 episodes will enlighten, entertain, and bring back memories of the series' from 1967 to 1978. Remember Went With the Wind, the famous Gone With The Wind lampoon? Relive those unforgettable laughs through the memories of many of the creative personnel, guests, and even network executives in 60 exclusive interviews and summaries of each season's episodes.Author Wesley Hyatt takes you behind the scenes for revealing peeks at why the show switched time slots three times, how players changed roles during rehearsals, and how writers dreamed up certain skits. Relive the 25 Emmy Awards bestowed on cast and producers of one of the all-time best American television variety series.Featuring an Appendix of the top 30 shows. Index. Illustrated.About the author: Wesley Hyatt is the author of The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television (1997); The Billboard Book of Number One Adult Contemporary Hits (1999); Short-Lived Television Series, 1948-1978 (2003); A Critical History of Television's The Red Skelton Show, 1951-1971 (2004); Emmy Award Winning Nighttime Television Shows, 1948-2004 (2006); Kicking Off The Week: A History of Monday Night Football on ABC Television, 1970-2005 (2007); and Television's Top 100: The Most Watched American Broadcasts, 1960-2010 (2011). He works as a writer and editor with Citrix in Raleigh, North Carolina, and serves as a regular contributor to Stu's Show, an Internet radio interview show covering the entertainment industry.

You're probably still laughing. If you have seen The Carol Burnett Show, you remember the unbridled hilarity of the sketches performed by Carol, Harvey Korman, Tim Conway, Vicki Lawrence, Dick Van Dyke, Lyle Waggoner, and frequent guest stars Cass Elliot, Bernadette Peters, Paul Lynde, Eydie Gorme, Jim Nabors, Mel Torme, and Nancy Wilson.Discover the complete history of The Carol Burnett Show, from its origins as a potential series through later DVD releases. All 11 seasons and 276 episodes will enlighten, entertain, and bring back memories of the series' from 1967 to 1978. Remember Went With the Wind, the famous Gone With The Wind lampoon? Relive those unforgettable laughs through the memories of many of the creative personnel, guests, and even network executives in 60 exclusive interviews and summaries of each season's episodes.Author Wesley Hyatt takes you behind the scenes for revealing peeks at why the show switched time slots three times, how players changed roles during rehearsals, and how writers dreamed up certain skits. Relive the 25 Emmy Awards bestowed on cast and producers of one of the all-time best American television variety series.Featuring an Appendix of the top 30 shows. Index. Illustrated.About the author: Wesley Hyatt is the author of The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television (1997); The Billboard Book of Number One Adult Contemporary Hits (1999); Short-Lived Television Series, 1948-1978 (2003); A Critical History of Television's The Red Skelton Show, 1951-1971 (2004); Emmy Award Winning Nighttime Television Shows, 1948-2004 (2006); Kicking Off The Week: A History of Monday Night Football on ABC Television, 1970-2005 (2007); and Television's Top 100: The Most Watched American Broadcasts, 1960-2010 (2011). He works as a writer and editor with Citrix in Raleigh, North Carolina, and serves as a regular contributor to Stu's Show, an Internet radio interview show covering the entertainment industry.

This work tells the stories of TV series that were cancelled within a year of their premieres in the USA. The entries are arranged chronologically from 1948 to 1978, and provide details and descriptions of each show. There is information from over 100 interviews with actors, writers and directors.

Remember the finales of M*A*S*H, Cheers and Seinfeld? Do you know who shot J.R. on Dallas? This entertaining survey recounts these and other memorable events that generated some of American television's biggest audiences when they were first telecast from 1960 to the present. Here you will find the inside stories about the most popular specials, movies, miniseries and series episodes in television history, from Number 100 to the top of the list. Weekly series and recurring specials like the Super Bowl are represented by their highest-rated individual entry to allow a diverse selection. Included are appendices with facts and figures about the Top 100, and a chronological listing of these unforgettable programs.

A reference to prime time and night-time Emmy winners, this book's entries include original interviews with cast or crew members. The best of variety, drama, game shows, comedies, adventures and many more categories are featured. Each show's entry constitutes a chapter in the history of television through the story of the show.