television producers and directors

"From the online entertainment pioneer, actress, and "queen of the geeks" Felicia Day, comes a funny, quirky, and inspiring memoir about her unusual upbringing, her rise to internet stardom, and embracing her weirdness to find her place in the world.".

A biography of Tyler Perry, African American actor, author, and TV and film producer.

When actor, writer, producer Trudi-Ann Tierney first went to Kabul, with the promise of work, it was in an illicit bar. Today she is head of drama at Afghanistan's biggest TV broadcaster, Moby Media Group, where she oversees about half a dozen programs, including the country's most popular soap Raaz Hai Een Khana (The Secrets of This House). Occasionally as madcap as Catch-22 and as absurd as One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, this is a part-hilarious, part-nail-biting account of a talented TV executive working in a war zone and an environment that is dangerous to women. The author's sense of humour and her love of the Afghan people shines through.

Norman Lear discusses his life and career in the motion picture and television industry.

The TV executive responsible for "Wide World of Sports," "Monday Night Football," and 'Nightline" relates his career -- from being a low-level stage manager to supervising broadcasts during the 1972 Olympics crisis and heading ABC News.

Follows [Whedon's] development from a creative child and teenager who spent years away from his family at an elite English public school, through his early successes--which often turned into frustrating heartbreak in both television (Roseanne) and film (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)--to his breakout turn as the creator, writer, and director of the Buffy television series [to his work on the blockbuster The Avengers and home-shot Much ado about nothing].

Lena Dunham shares personal experiences about the struggles of growing up, illuminating falling in love, feeling alone, being ten pounds overweight, being a woman trying to prove herself to a room full of men twice her age, how sex did not live up to expectations, and exploring her lifelong obsession with death and dying.

Who knew that Ma Kettle hailed from Acton, Indiana? Who knew that Hollywood's coolest man alive in the 1950s, James Dean, and the coolest man alive during the 1960s and 1970s, Steve McQueen, both hailed from the ninetheenth state?.

Wayne Campbell and his best friend Garth Algar produce Wayne's World, a public-access cable show, out of Wayne's parents' home in the suburbs. They think they have hit the big time when a television network executive offers to produce their show, but they soon learn that there is more to the deal than meets the eye.