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Peter, welcome. Thank you for joining us. Its really great to speak to you today. I thank you for asking, inviting. So youve written quite a bit over the years about about hollywood, particularly the movie industry. This book is a really wonderful tour of modern tevision and how it evolved into a medium for deep, provocative, original storytelling. Weve all become familiar with this term that were that were living through the golden age of tv with these shows like mad men and breaking bad and succession. And the list goes on and on. What made you want to tackle this subject now . And also with so much ambition and sweep, this is a book that spans several decades. Well, basically, because, you know, movies have declined. You know, theyve become you know, theyve become a monoculture here of superheroes. You know, basically through marvel, somewhat through dc and there was it just seemed to me that there was less and less interesting work being done in the movies. And a lot of the talent
Peter, welcome. Thank you for joining us. Its really great to speak to you today. I thank you for asking, inviting. So youve written quite a bit over the years about about hollywood, particularly the movie industry. This book is a really wonderful tour of modern tevision and how it evolved into a medium for deep, provocative, original storytelling. Weve all become familiar with this term that were that were living through the golden age of tv with these shows like mad men and breaking bad and succession. And the list goes on and on. What made you want to tackle this subject now . And also with so much ambition and sweep, this is a book that spans several decades. Well, basically, because, you know, movies have declined. You know, theyve become you know, theyve become a monoculture here of superheroes. You know, basically through marvel, somewhat through dc and there was it just seemed to me that there was less and less interesting work being done in the movies. And a lot of the talent
Peter, welcome. Thank you for joining us. Its really great to speak to you today. I thank you for asking, inviting. So youve written quite a bit over the years about about hollywood, particularly the movie industry. This book is a really wonderful tour of modern tevision and how it evolved into a medium for deep, provocative, original storytelling. Weve all become familiar with this term that were that were living through the golden age of tv with these shows like mad men and breaking bad and succession. And the list goes on and on. What made you want to tackle this subject now . And also with so much ambition and sweep, this is a book that spans several decades. Well, basically, because, you know, movies have declined. You know, theyve become you know, theyve become a monoculture here of superheroes. You know, basically through marvel, somewhat through dc and there was it just seemed to me that there was less and less interesting work being done in the movies. And a lot of the talent