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(FAQ). TV Finales FAQ is the first book devoted exclusively to television's most memorable series finales. From Mary Richards' heartfelt goodbye to the WJM-TV newsroom in the classic finale of The Mary Tyler Moore Show to the puzzling conclusion of the enigmatic adventure series, Lost , to the tumultuous final hours in the life of Breaking Bad 's Walter White, TV Finales FAQ takes an up close, insightful, and entertaining look at the most memorable final episodes of television's most popular prime time, daytime, and late night series. Crafting the final episode to a long-running television series can be challenging for producers and writers who want to remain faithful to the show's characters and history, yet, at the same time, satisfy the high expectations of its loyal fan base. TV Finales FAQ offers television viewers the inside story on the creation, broadcast, and aftermath of the most famous (and infamous) final episodes of over 50 television series from the 1960s through the present day. The books features such shows as Dexter , Roseanne, Will & Grace, The Sopranos, and some classic talk and late-night programs such as The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson , and many others.
TV Finales FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Endings of Your Favorite TV Shows (FAQ Series) (The Faq Series), by Stephen Tropiano, Holly Van Buren- Amazon Sales Rank: #1054519 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-01
- Original language: English
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Review ''TV Finales FAQ is a must read for fans of the medium that will likely bring back memories of countless beloved and much missed programs that helped to shape popular culture.'' --Pop Culture Guy''With ratings figures and behind-the-scenes insight into the making of these final episodes, this is more than just a celebration of greatest hits, greatest misses, big ambitious swings, and failed experiments... it's a glimpse into the relationships we form with characters and fictional worlds, and what bringing them to a close means to each viewer. This is a walk down Memory Lane and an ode to great storytelling all at once. What fun.'' --San Francisco Book Review
About the Author STEPHEN TROPIANO (Los Angeles) is the author of Saturday Night Live FAQ, The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on Television, and books on the film musicals Grease and Cabaret for Limelight Editions' Music on Film series. He is the director of the Ithaca College Los Angeles Program, where he teaches courses in film and television theory and criticism. HOLLY VAN BUREN (New York) earned her MA in Critical Studies at the University of Southern California and teaches film studies at Wagner College.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Wonderful capsule of significant TV shows and their endings By Johanna Draper Carlson TV Finales FAQ brought back a lot of fond memories for me, in two distinct categories. The first was that of watching many of the various TV shows covered. The second was when I used to scarf up books like this one, media surveys and volumes of pop culture trivia, back before we had the internet for that purpose. I’ve missed these kinds of volumes (although my slimmer shelves thank me).Stephen Tropiano and Holly Van Buren have written an overview of the last episode phenomenon, from both storytelling and historical perspectives. This chunky volume is divided into six categories:1. The Most Watched — which includes The Fugitive (the first show to have this kind of wrap-up episode), Seinfeld, Friends, and of course, M*A*S*H* (still the most-watched, and in an era of fragmentation, likely to stay that way)2. WTF? — the confusing or argument-provoking ones: St. Elsewhere, The Sopranos, Lost3. Finales that jumped ahead in time — Gossip Girl, How I Met Your Mother, Dawson’s Creek4. Daytime and Late Night — where soaps and talk shows are covered in brief5. Saying Goodbye — which seems to be stuff that didn’t fit anywhere else but that people want to remember, including Frasier and 30 Rock. The authors describe this category as the shows where the characters “close[d] up shop and move[d] on”6. The Best — the classic Mary Tyler Moore Show, which showed us how it should be done (and established the workplace-as-family approach); Newhart‘s famous call back to an earlier show; Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel saving the worldThere are more shows covered in each section than I’ve listed above, but the ones I’ve mentioned were some of my favorite chapters to read. I was reminded throughout of how much enjoyment I got from watching some of these series over the years, and how emotionally involving some of them could be.Each chapter goes into detail, enough so that you can understand the storytelling if you never saw the episode(s), or so you can remember the experience of watching these events play out the first time you watched. Each show is put into cultural context, with information on what else was airing at the time, how the series came to be, what drove the decision to end the series, and how it was received. Plot elements are reported and key moments of the show’s history listed. A lengthy appendix has short summaries of many other series finales.TV Finales FAQ, although saddled with a clunky title (because it’s part of the FAQ book series), is a wonderful time capsule with plenty of important TV history. The authors do a great job in these 400+ pages summarizing some of the best TV shows of all time, making the case for their cultural significance. (The publisher provided a digital review copy. Review originally posted at ComicsWorthReading.com.)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Five Stars By Amazon Customer Well written. It covers soon many areas that it will become the encyclopedic resource for many .
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Useful but Poorly Edited TV Reference Book By Lee Goldberg This is an informative and useful book... despite some clunky writing, poor editing, and puzzling omissions. The writers do a good job giving detailed information on the creative arc of each series leading up to their finales, which are explored in-depth. The critical and "fan" response to the finales is also explored in detail. Series finales aren't limited to dramas or sitcoms. They cover many genres, including talk shows and soaps. Most of the content appears to be based on personal viewing and quotes lifted from previously published material...other reference books are frequently quoted and cited. Few interviews appears to have been done specifically for this book, which is a weakness and gives the book a "reheated leftovers" feel, as if its simply an accumulation of data already covered by others.. Most of the finales you expect to be discussed in a book about TV finales are discussed (NEWHART, MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW, ST. ELSEWHERE, SOPRANOS, THE FUGITIVE, etc)... but, strangely, they also include final episodes that were never intended by the producers as finales (like "The Sharecroppers" episode of GUNSMOKE) and finales for shortlived shows like I MARRIED DORA and UGLY BETTY, and yet totally omit the blockbuster final episodes of popular shows like STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, LAW & ORDER, JAG, WHO'S THE BOSS, STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE and STAR TREK: VOYAGER. It's not clear what the authors' criteria for inclusion or exclusion was in their book.The biggest problem with the book, however, is the clunky writing and terrible editing. The listing for MAGNUM PI is a perfect example of the editorial problems that plague the book. On page 59, they mention that the original pilot featured a hero who had gadgets, "including a hand glider that doubles as a machine gun." Hand glider?? That's a typo, and could be forgiven, if there weren't so many other editorial problems with the book.On the same page as that typo, there's this inane sentence: "Selleck liked Bellisario's writing as he had read his script for a proposed series entitled 'Gypsy Warriors' (1978) in which Selleck and James Whitmore Jr. played a pair of World War II espionage agents posing as gypsies in France and Germany." Well duh, OF COURSE Selleck read the script. It would be difficult to star in the pilot film WITHOUT reading the script, wouldn't it? Lame sentence. An editor would have caught that...assuming the book was edited.There's more. On the same page, the authors write about how Bellisario purportedly rewrote Glen A. Larson's MAGNUM pilot by using a busted pilot of his own as a starting point: "A few years back, Bellisario had written a script entitled 'H.H. Flynn' about three Vietnam vets: Rick, a club owner who idolizes Humphrey Bogart; TC, a helicopter pilot; and Magnum, a private investigator who lives in a guest house on a Bel Air estate owned by the 'florist to the stars.'" Really? The hero's name was Magnum in a pilot called H.H Flynn? C'mon, guys.The book is rife with bizarre sentences like those and its a shame. Even so, I would still recommend this book for your TV reference library.
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