Pandora’s Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV - Peter Biskind
Shared by:MojoYugen
Written by
Read by Robert Petkoff
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
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. We are now lucky enough to be living through the era of so-called “Peak TV,” in which television, in its various guises and formats, has seized the entertainment mantle from movies, and dominates our leisure time. How and why this happened is the subject of this book. Instead of focusing on one service, like HBO, Pandora’s Box asks, “What did HBO do, besides give us The Sopranos?” The It gave us a revolution. Biskind bites off a big chunk of entertainment history, following HBO from its birth into maturity, moving on to the basic cablers like FX and AMC, and ending up with the streamers and their wars, pitting Netflix against Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, and the killer pluses–Disney, Apple, Paramount, et al. Since the creative and business sides of TV are thoroughly entwined, Biskind examines both, and the interplay between them. Through frank, and occasionally shockingly intimate interviews with creators and executives, Pandora’s Box investigates the dynamic interplay of commerce and art through the lens of the relationships among the networks, cablers, and streamers–sometimes allies, sometimes enemies–and uses the shows they air, in particular the game changers, as windows into the byzantine practices of the players as they use money and guile to destroy their competitors. At the end, this book crystal balls the future in light of the success and/or failure of the streamers that, after apparently clearing the board, now face life threatening problems, some self-created, some not. Pandora’s Box may be right or wrong, or most likely both, but regardless, it is a provocative read.
| Announce URL: | http://tracker.files.fm:6969/announce |
| This Torrent also has several backup trackers | |
| Tracker: | http://tracker.files.fm:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | http://open.acgnxtracker.com:80/announce |
| Tracker: | http://tracker2.dler.org:80/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://exodus.desync.com:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://open.stealth.si:80/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://opentor.org:2710/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.dler.org:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.tiny-vps.com:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.torrent.eu.org:451/announce |
| Creation Date: | Thu, 09 Nov 2023 23:30:13 +0100 |
| This is a Multifile Torrent | |
| Pandora’s Box part 08 of 13.mp3 31.88 MBs | |
| Pandora’s Box part 02 of 13.mp3 29.04 MBs | |
| Pandora’s Box part 03 of 13.mp3 26.25 MBs | |
| Pandora’s Box part 04 of 13.mp3 26.87 MBs | |
| Pandora’s Box part 05 of 13.mp3 23.94 MBs | |
| Pandora’s Box part 06 of 13.mp3 23.67 MBs | |
| Pandora’s Box part 07 of 13.mp3 21.86 MBs | |
| Pandora’s Box part 01 of 13.mp3 31.47 MBs | |
| Pandora’s Box part 09 of 13.mp3 25.36 MBs | |
| Pandora’s Box part 10 of 13.mp3 29.5 MBs | |
| Pandora’s Box part 11 of 13.mp3 27.09 MBs | |
| Pandora’s Box part 12 of 13.mp3 26.25 MBs | |
| Pandora’s Box part 13 of 13.mp3 25.63 MBs | |
| Combined File Size: | 348.8 MBs |
| Piece Size: | 256 KBs |
| Comment: | Updated by AudioBook Bay |
| Info Hash: | 720da1331db3b068f408a32bbdadad1305c72cca |
| Torrent Download | Torrent Free Downloads |
| Tips | Sometimes the torrent health info isn’t accurate, so you can download the file and check it out or try the following downloads. |
| Direct Download | Start Direct Download |
| Tips | You could try out alternative bittorrent clients. |
| Secured Download | Download Files Now |
| Ad |
|
This post has 4 comments with rating of 5/5
November 10th, 2023
Now, in tv & film, there’s a marked tendency to rely on the multiverse, & so 4th, as a plot device. Intriguing stuff at 1st, it then becomes lazy.
Best tv: The Wire; Battlestar Galactica (version 2.0); Breaking Bad; Succession; Seinfeld & Curb; and (occasionally) South Park.
November 10th, 2023
So, broadcast tv is all but dead. When sports goes away, football mainly, it will collapse entirely.
See how alot of new shows are pure trash? No one wants to make cop shows anymore, unless you bash the cops. L&O has fallen so far as to be almost unwatchable.
Lets entertain people with prime time game shows. Todays audiences are short sighted and without imagination.
Every network now wants you to ’subscribe’ and pay them monthy for their content. Tv now costs $250 a month between cable, netflix, paramount plus, disney plus, peacock plus, apple tv, blah, blah, blah!
Case in point: Frasier returned to tv, but wait! Not tv, but subscription service. And guess what? It’s not funny! They don’t want to offend anyone (social media cowards is my new term) and so, bland, unfunny jokes and… not… funny… or.. interest…
oh well.
At least we still have books to listen to!
November 10th, 2023
Pandora’s box is an artifact of Greek mythology from about 700bc. That’s really old, so clearly this is not a book suitable for a modern audience.
November 19th, 2023
I used to know a girl called Pandora.
Never got to see her box, though.
Add a comment (please log in before commenting)