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:

    “The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
    —Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)

    “What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.”
    —Salvador Dali (1904–1989)

    “Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.”
    —Clive James (b. 1939)