Watching TV: Six Decades of American Television takes you back to your favorite era in television---no matter when that was. Updated and expanded, Watching TV tells the story of television season by season, from the medium's inception to twenty-first-century programming, combining an engaging narrative text, key dates, annual fall prime time schedules, and more than one hundred photographs.<BR><BR>Publishers Weekly:"Castleman and Podrazik have put together a well-researched, tightly written documentary on the development of the television industry and the individuals involved."<BR><BR>Library Journal:"The authors have meticulously documented an in-depth survey of the entire world of TV trends and Programming from the industry's beginnings, presenting along the way some very judicious critical analyses."<BR><BR>David Bianculli (TV critic, NPR's Fresh Air):"The best one-stop-shopping detailed overview of TV, season by season, ever published."<BR><BR>Entertainment Tonight: "Sharpeyed and eclectic."<BR><BR>Horace Newcomb (director of the George Foster Peabody Awards): "A rare type of work that makes a difference for many types of readers. As a succinct, but truly sound history of television, it never condescends to its subject. Detailed information and clarity of presentation are matched by unsentimental affection for the medium."