The groundbreaking inside look at the making — and unmaking — of a network TV series, back in print for the first time in thirty years. This new edition features an Afterword by Ken Levine, the Emmy and WGA award-winning writer/producer of M*A*S*H and Cheers.
“An entertaining autopsy of a failed NBC TV drama/comedy. Don't worry if you never saw or even heard of the show. Muse makes it interesting, providing colorful chapters on everything…and populates the scene-behind-the-scenes with comic episodes and likable, three-dimensional characters who really seem to love what they do.” Kirkus Reviews
“The book confirms what you suspect: Hollywood is a miserable place and sometimes good shows fail and bad shows succeed.” Fort Worth Star-Telegram
“An amusing narrative that is at its best when showing the nuts-and-bolts aspects of television production.” New York Times
Previously published as We Bombed in Burbank: A Joyride to Prime Time.
Lee Goldberg interviews the directors of some of the biggest genre movies of the 1980s.
CREATING PRIMETIME is an inside look at how classic television was conceived, written, and produced by the showrunners who made it.
Before Star Trek became a sprawling television dynasty, Lee Goldberg was there with a tape recorder and a deadline, talking to the people who were building—and rebuilding—the franchise in real time.
A collection of Lee Goldberg's interviews with actors -- including Tom Selleck, Michael J. Fox, Michelle Pfeiffer, Raquel Welch, William Shatner and many more.
Before the sexual revolution had a name, there was this book. By turns earnest, provocative, naïve, and unintentionally hilarious, this is less a how-to than a cultural snapshot—when “going all the way” was still a question, and talking about it at all felt dangerously modern. A frank, fascinating time capsule from a world on the brink.