Politics in Fiction - Television

Television

  • Slattery's People (1964-65 American television series about local politics, starring Richard Crenna as a U.S. state legislator)
  • The Prisoner (1967)
  • The Adams Chronicles (1976 miniseries)
  • Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy (The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma — 1980 Polish TV miniseries based on the novel by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz)
  • Yes Minister (and its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister), by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn (1980–88)
  • Edge of Darkness (1985)
  • The New Statesman (1987-94)
  • A Very British Coup (1988)
  • Tanner '88 (1988)
  • House of Cards (1990)
  • Babylon 5 (1993)
  • A Third Choice (1996)
  • Spin City (1996-2002)
  • Nostromo (1997)
  • The West Wing (1999–2006)
  • Moncloa, ¿dígame? (2001) Sitcom about the Spanish President press office
  • 24 (2001-10)
  • The Wire (2002–08)
  • The Project (2002)
  • Absolute Power (2003, 2005)
  • Yugo the Negotiator (2004; anime, on hostage-negotiation)
  • Battlestar Galactica (2004)
  • Commander-in-Chief (2005)
  • The Thick of It, by Armando Iannucci (2005)
  • Brotherhood (2006)
  • Party Animals (BBC Two, 2007)
  • John Adams (2008) (miniseries)
  • Recount (2008)
  • The Hollowmen (ABC1, 2008)
  • Change (2008)
  • Parks and Recreation (2009)
  • Borgen (2010-2013)
  • Boss (2011)
  • Scandal (2012)
  • Political Animals (2012)
  • "Veep", by Armando Ianucci (2012)
  • House of Cards (US) (2012)

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Famous quotes containing the word television:

    “Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving one’s ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one’s life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one’s “real” life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
    —Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)

    “Addison DeWitt: Your next move, it seems to me, should be toward television.
    Miss Caswell: Tell me this. Do they have auditions for television?
    Addison DeWitt: That’s all television is, my dear. Nothing but auditions.”
    —Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)

    “The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates—the inhabitants of marketing zones in the consumer goods society, television audiences and news magazine readerships... vote with money at the cash counter rather than with the ballot paper at the polling booth.”
    —J.G. (James Graham)