In his seminal book "Television's Second Golden Age", Robert
Thompson described quality TV as 'best defined by what it is not':
'it is not "regular" TV'. Audacious maybe, but his statement
renewed debate on the meaning of this highly contentious term.
Dealing primarily with the post-1996 era shaped by digital
technologies and defined by consumer choice and brand marketing,
this book brings together leading scholars, established journalists
and experienced broadcasters working in the field of contemporary
television to debate what we currently mean by quality TV. They go
deep into contemporary American television fictions, from "The
Sopranos" and "The West Wing", to "CSI" and "Lost" - innovative,
sometimes controversial, always compelling dramas, which one
scholar has described as 'now better than the movies!' But how do
we understand the emergence of these kinds of fiction? Are they
genuinely new? What does quality TV have to tell us about the state
of today's television market? And is this a new Golden Age of
quality TV? Original, often polemic, each chapter proposes new ways
of thinking about and defining quality TV. There is a foreword from
Robert Thompson, and heated dialogue between British and US
television critics. Also included - and a great coup - are
interviews with W. Snuffy Walden (scored "The West Wing" among
others) and with David Chase ("The Sopranos" creator). "Quality TV"
provides throughout groundbreaking and innovative theoretical and
critical approaches to studying television and for understanding
the current - and future - TV landscape.
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