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Grand Prize Winner Los Angeles Book Festival Ever wonder what the people who bring us our TV entertainment are thinking? Television and pop culture historian and author Herbie J Pilato has, and now takes listeners on a provocative and entertaining look into the agenda behind TV shows and the resulting trends. Even when it seemed television programming was primarily mindless, there was serious thought behind what audiences were presented. The networks, after all, believe in giving the people what they want, even when the people should have known better. We've spent years of our lives in front of the tube; isn't it about time we found out what makes that tube tick? Retro Active Television will enlighten you.

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Herbie J Pilato is a writer and producer whose books include Dashing, Daring, and Debonair: TV's Top Male Icons from the '50s, '60s, and '70s, Glamour Gidgets and the Girl Next Door, Twitch Upon a Star: The Bewitched Life and Career of Elizabeth Montgomery, The Bionic Book, The Kung Fu Book of Caine, and NBC & ME: My Life as a Page in a Book, among others. Pilato has produced and/or appeared on several TV documentaries, including Bravo's hit five-part series, The 100 Greatest TV Characters, TLC's Behind the Fame specials on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show, and DVD documentaries such as The Six Million Dollar Man boxed set, Kung Fu, and CHiPs. A former page for NBC, Pilato worked on shows like The Tonight Show (starring Johnny Carson), and Family Ties, appeared on shows The Golden Girls, General Hospital, and The Bold and the Beautiful, in addition to various film and live stage productions (some of which he has also directed). In 2010, Pilato founded the Classic TV Preservation Society, a formal 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the positive social influence of classic television programming. Born in Rochester, New York, and today living in Los Angeles, Pilato is also creative director for Television, Inc. (a family-oriented TV, film, and literary production company), serves as contributing editor for Larry Brody's tvwriter.com, writes frequently for the Television Academy and Emmys.com, and is the host of Then Again with Herbie J Pilato, a TV talk show geared toward classic television. Herbie J Pilato is a writer and producer whose books include Dashing, Daring, and Debonair: TV's Top Male Icons from the '50s, '60s, and '70s, Glamour Gidgets and the Girl Next Door, Twitch Upon a Star: The Bewitched Life and Career of Elizabeth Montgomery, The Bionic Book, The Kung Fu Book of Caine, and NBC & ME: My Life as a Page in a Book, among others. Pilato has produced and/or appeared on several TV documentaries, including Bravo's hit five-part series, The 100 Greatest TV Characters, TLC's Behind the Fame specials on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show, and DVD documentaries such as The Six Million Dollar Man boxed set, Kung Fu, and CHiPs. A former page for NBC, Pilato worked on shows like The Tonight Show (starring Johnny Carson), and Family Ties, appeared on shows The Golden Girls, General Hospital, and The Bold and the Beautiful, in addition to various film and live stage productions (some of which he has also directed). In 2010, Pilato founded the Classic TV Preservation Society, a formal 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the positive social influence of classic television programming. Born in Rochester, New York, and today living in Los Angeles, Pilato is also creative director for Television, Inc. (a family-oriented TV, film, and literary production company), serves as contributing editor for Larry Brody's tvwriter.com, writes frequently for the Television Academy and Emmys.com, and is the host of Then Again with Herbie J Pilato, a TV talk show geared toward classic television.

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