John Romano, "Prime Time in Transition"
from MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing Hosted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The prime-time series has been a central narrative form in America for the last half-century, as the Hollywood movie had been in a previous era. Are the radical transformations of television in recent years challenging this domination? How has series TV changed over the past 20 years? What does the prolonged writers’ strike signify for the future of TV fiction and the medium as a whole? Leading writer-producer John Romano (Third Watch, Party of Five, Hill Street Blues) addresses these and related questions in a candid conversation.
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