num_pages: 995
description: Tinderbox tells the exclusive explosive uninhibited true story of HBO and how it burst onto the American scene and screen to detonate a revolution and transform our relationship with television forever.The Sopranos  Game of Thrones  Sex and the City  The Wire  Succession HBO has long been the home of epic shows as well as the source for brilliant new movies news-making documentaries and controversial sports journalism. By thinking big trashing tired formulas and killing off cliches long past their primes HBO shook off the shackles of convention and led the way to a bolder world of content opening the door to all that was new original and worthy of our attention.In Tinderbox  award-winning journalist James Andrew Miller uncovers a bottomless trove of secrets and surprises revealing new conflicts insights and analysis. As he did to great acclaim with SNL in Live from New York ; with ESPN in Those Guys Have All the Fun ; and with talent agency CAA in Powerhouse  Miller continues his record of extraordinary access to the most important voices this time speaking with talents ranging from Abrams (J. J.) to Zendaya as well as every single living president of HBOand hundreds of other major players.Over the course of more than 750 interviews with key sources Miller reveals how fraught HBOs journey has been capturing the drama and the comedy off-camera and inside boardrooms as HBO created and mobilized a daring new content universe and in doing so reshaped storytelling and upended our entertainment lives forever.
language: English
title: Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers
publisher: Henry Holt and Co.