Tinderbox: HBOs Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers, James Andrew Miller. The people who created HBO made something they’re proud of. Neal Justin is the Star Tribune TV critic. In James Andrew Millers new book, CEOs John Stankey and David Zaslav reveal. There’s enough animosity, jealousy, score-settling and killing gossip in Tinderbox, James Andrew Miller’s mountainous new oral history of HBO, to fill an Elizabethan drama. You just have to slog through a few business lectures along the way. Ratings Book 1 Narrator Release Date November 2021 Duration 43 hours 32 minutes Summary Tinderbox tells the exclusive, explosive, uninhibited true story of HBO and how it burst onto the American scene and screen to detonate a revolution and transform our relationship with television forever. Learning how suits jockey for power can be fascinating, but Miller may have overestimated how much time we want to spend in the boardroom, especially when we know there are celebrities cooling their heels in the waiting room. If there is a hero in this executive suite's version of "Game of Thrones," it's Carolyn Strauss, the insightful producer who makes churning out memorable TV a higher priority than landing a corner office. James Andrew Millers book follows the channel from its start in 1972 through its. Author James Andrew Miller, who has also chronicled the rise of "Saturday Night Live" and ESPN, grants readers quite a few such anecdotes about the cable giant's biggest hits, from "Sex and the City" to "Succession." Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Billy Crystal and Evander Holyfield are among the marquee names dishing the dirt.īut Miller, who also gave us a riveting account on the rise of Hollywood agents, is primarily interested in the behind-the-scenes drama among corporate bigwigs who make Tony Soprano seem like Mister Rogers. Tinderbox Tinderbox tells the exclusive, explosive, uninhibited true story of HBO and how it burst onto the American scene and screen to detonate a. "Tinderbox," an oral history of HBO, opens with a jarring account of how key members of "The Sopranos" tried to stage an intervention for the show's troubled star, James Gandolfini.
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