The Contemporary Television Series

Michael Hammond and Lucy Mazdon (eds.) (2005) The Contemporary Television Series. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

• If you are a great fan of those USAmerican TV series (such as ER, The West Wing, The Sopranos, X-File, Ally McBeal, etc. etc...), and want to consider them as more than sheer entertainment, but want to avoid the annoying show-off of 'academic' jargons, this book is probably for you.
  
• Personally I have never been really a great fan of such series, but have somehow been 'trapped' into chasing after the final two seasons of The West Wing since last year. Thus the chapter on that series is interesting and informative for me.
  
• Indeed an enjoyable break-time reading for me - learn something while not having to take notes and / or crack the pretentious language that has stuffed so many of the academic books.