Pandora’s Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV looks at how the peak TV era came to fruition, and how the streaming giants — and Netflix in particular — shook up television. Written by Peter Biskind and published by William Morrow, the book is a smoothly written account of modern television, from The Sopranos to the current era.
The book starts with HBO and how it emerged from airing only movies to rough originals, such as The Hitchhiker and Tanner ‘88, to the prestige series that now define the network. Biskind spends time with Michael Fuchs, former HBO chairman/CEO, who is full of candor, and calls things honestly and openly, and often profanely.
