TY - BOOK AU - Biskind,Peter TI - Pandora's box: how guts, guile, and greed upended TV SN - 9780062991669 PY - 2023///] CY - New York PB - William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers KW - Television programs KW - History KW - Television KW - Production and direction KW - Streaming technology (Telecommunications) KW - United States N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-367) and index; Introduction: Broadcast blues -- Part I: "It's not television. It's HBO.". Seeding the wasteland -- "Be a good Catholic for 15 fucking minutes" -- HBO's annus horribilis -- Part II: Back to basics. FX flips off HBO -- AMC chases Chase -- Showtime's bad-good girls -- Out of luck and off-key, HBO gets game -- Part III: Stream or die. Netflix's Albanian army -- Amazon's women in the high castle -- Disney's empire strikes back -- Can WBD's kid stay in the picture? -- Part IV: Back to the future. Cash is king N2 - "Bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, cultural critic Peter Biskind turns his eye toward the new golden age of television, sparked by the fall of play-it-safe network TV and the rise of boundary-busting cable followed by streaming, that overturned both--based on exclusive, candid, and colorful interviews with executives, writers, showrunners, directors, and actors"-- ER -