Feeling neglected by his parents, Fred drifts into a routine of watching television, hour after hour. When his father takes it out into the back yard, birds find refuge in it and Fred begins a transformation.
Concerned that the family is spending too much time in front of the television and neglecting other activities, Mama Bear decides that there will be no television watching for one week.
A biography of entrepreneur Ted Turner, who, after a number of diverse achievements, pioneered the world's first twenty-four hour, nonstop news station and changed the history of television.
While working as an intern on a popular television comedy show produced in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Bess tries to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who committed suicide six months earlier.
When one of the actresses is fired from a television show for bad behavior, she retaliates by making public an underground blog about the program, which precipitates a boycott of the show.
