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ADVENTURES IN A TV NATION

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ISBN 10: 
0 330 41914 5
Number of pages: 
241
First published: 
1998
This edition: 
2002
Blurb: 

The Stories Behind America's Most Outrageous TV Show

Hailed as 'brilliant', 'subversive' and 'the best show in the past 30 years' by critics from both sides of the Atlantic, Michael Moore's revolutionary series TV Nation programme championed the issues which concern us all - from the heavyweight to the just plain irksome. Only on TV Nation could you witness the unthinkable - Mexican and African Americans gatecrashing a Ku Klux Klan rally to regale them with love songs and install a kissing booth - as well as the simply wish-fulfilling - the home of the director of the largest car alarm company in America being woken to the tuneful chorus of a dozen car alarms at 6 a.m.

Adventures in a TV Nation recounts the intriguing behind-the-scenes stories of filming TV Nation and reveals how Moore and his associates got it past the censors and on the air. It also relates those stories which were too controversial to show - including the voice-activated lie detector scan which tested the daily news and recorded a lie in just about every report. If you have ever felt powerless or at the mercy of 'the system', Adventures in a TV Nation is guaranteed to lift your spirits.

Contents: 

Introduction

 1. Who Let This Show on the Air?
 2. Love Night
 3. Invading the Beach at Greenwich, Connecticut
 4. Payback Time
 5. The Corp-Aid Concert
 6. Crackers, the Corporate Crime-Fighting Chicken
 7. The CEO Challenge
 8. Brian Anthony Harris Is Not Wanted
 9. Taxi
10. Slaves
11. A Day with Dr. Death
12. Are You Prepared for Prison?
13. I Want to Be an Argentinean
14. Junk Mail
15. Sabotage
16. Yuri, Our TV Nation Spy
17. Mike's Missile
18. Haulin' Communism
19. The Johns of Justice
20. With Neighbors Like These
21. Health Care Olympics
22. Cobb County
23. Making Peace with Pizza
24. We Hire Our Own Lobbyist
25. Whiny White Guys
26. The Censored TV Nation
27. When All Is Said and Done

Appendix A: The TV Nation Polls
Appendix B: The Shows
Appendix C: How to Get Stuff
Appendix D: TV Nation Resources
Acknowledgements

Biographical note(s): 

Michael Moore is the creator and host of the Emmy Award-winning TV Nation and the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Downsize This! (also published in Pan) and Stupid White Men. He is also the director of Roger & Me, the largest-grossing documentary film of all time, the director of the documentary feature The Big One and the acclaimed Bowling for Columbine.

Kathleen Glynn is the Emmy Award-winning producer of TV Nation and The Big One.

Quotes about: 

TV Nation may be that rarest of species, a television programme both funny and important. -- Wall Street Journal

Mr Moore's breezy, irreverent, blithely biased excursions are generally refreshing, frequently hilarious. -- New York Times