Lou Grant: The Making of Tv's Top Newspaper Drama

by Douglass K. Daniel

Book Overview

When Lou Grant premiered in the fall of 1977, it quickly became a symbol of television drama at its best. During its five years on the air, Lou Grant earned critical acclaim as an entertaining yet thoughtful drama about important social and political issues, a rarity for episodic television in the late 1970s.

Douglass K. Daniel reveals how the creators of Lou Grant investigated journalism in the post-Watergate era to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815603630
• ISBN13: 9780815603634
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"