Golden Age Of Tv

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The Golden Age of Television The Golden Age of Television is the title given to the early days of television starting in the late 1940s to 1960. But some critics use the term to describe the era when most Americans and British made the switch from radio as their primary entertainment source to television. Although it has been claimed throughout television history that various times are or were a "New Golden Age of Television," such claims have become increasingly prevalent in regards to the present day since the 2004-05 season, when the reality show craze began to subside and scripted series began to take over prime time programming. In perhaps the most notable instance, director Jon Cassar declared the arrival of this second Golden Age in his acceptance speech at The 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. Whether or not the latter half of the first decade of the 21st century is, in fact, such a New Golden Age is of course up for debate. However, the claim is not merely self-promotion by networks and professionals regarding the quality of their work. There is, indeed, some factual basis for the claim. As with the anthology series of the 1950s, scripted television series of this decade have been more concerned with complex, layered storytelling and mood than with the straightforward, largely emotional shows characterized by casts of stock characters of the 1960s through 1990s. Unlike the anthology series, however, episodes of modern television series are decreasingly self-contained. Since the debut of such series as Twin Peaks, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Sopranos in the 90s, and certainly continuing through such 200s network prime time series as 24 (for which Cassar was accepting his Emmy), Lost, Desperate Housewives and even such comedies as The Office and Scrubs, the general trend in television programming has been increasingly towards serialized
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