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Billion-Dollar Kiss
The Kiss That Saved Dawson's Creek and Other Adventures in TV Writing
by Jeffrey Stepakoff
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Hardcover, 323 pages |
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Gotham |
| Pub. Date: |
May 10, 2007 |
| ISBN: |
159240295X |
| Dimensions: |
6 × 1.3 × 9 inches |
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When Jeffrey Stepakoff was graduating with an MFA in playwriting, he imagined a life in the New York theater, wearing a beret and smoking clove cigarettes. Writing for the "boob tube" didn't even cross his mind. But he ended up in L.A. in the late 80's, when television writers were experiencing their equivalent of a gold rush. After the billion- dollar syndication of Seinfeld, when studios were paying astronomical amounts of money to writers to create the next Friends or ER, the sudden mania for scripted entertainment made the TV writer a hot commodity. He found himself meeting with big agents, inside primetime story rooms, pitch meetings, and on the set of some of TVs most popular shows, and making more money than he'd ever thought possible.
When the market crashed and the dust settled, TV executives and the
media conglomerates they worked for were sitting on a broken business
model. Slowly, a new programming idea began to take hold—what if the
writer and their salaries were removed from the equation? Reality TV
was born and the TV writer suddenly became obsolete— at least
temporarily.
Weaving his personal story with television's, Stepakoff takes us behind the scenes to show what it's like to have a story idea one week and see it come to life and be seen by millions of people just a week later. Stepakoff also takes us inside the industry to explain what we're watching and why by exploring the growing problems of media consolidation, the effects of interference from executives, the lack of diversity, and what reality television is doing to quality scripted television.
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Product Details
| Format: |
Hardcover, 323 pages |
| Publisher: |
Gotham |
| Pub. Date: |
May 10, 2007 |
| ISBN: |
159240295X |
| Dimensions: |
6 × 1.3 × 9 inches |
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