Foreword (by writer-producer Harley Peyton) 6Preface & Acknowledgements 7Part I: Beyond the TV Landscape: Industry & Infrastructure 9Chapter 1: "It's Not TV. It's HBO": Prestige Television and Not-TV Branding in the Cable Era 15Feature Interview #1: The Cable Vanguard: Interview with Tom Fontana (Oz), David Chase (The Sopranos) and David Simon (The Wire) 40Chapter 2: TV in the Age of Plenty: Streaming, Bingeing and Redefining Television 53Feature Interview #2: The Pioneers of Streaming: Interview with Anne Bjørnstad & Eilif Skodvin (Lilyhammer) and Beau Willimon (House of Cards) 82Chapter 3: Beyond Borders: Transnational Television and Glocal Perspectives 93Feature Interview #3: Local is Global: Interview with Kelly Luegenbiehl (Vice President of Local-Language Originals, Netflix) 124Part II: Beyond Traditional Television: New Approaches to Storytelling, Style and Genre 131Chapter 4: A Complex Affair: Transmedia Storytelling and Complex TV 135Feature Interview #4: Building Worlds & Crafting Stories: Interview with Angela Kang (The Walking Dead) and Mark Frost (Twin Peaks) 169Chapter 5: The Art of Television: Stylistic Experimentation and TV Auteurism 176Feature Interview #5: Artists and Tele-visionaries: Interview with Sabrina Sutherland (Twin Peaks: The Return), Peter Gould (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul), Mary Harron (Alias Grace) and Derek Cianfrance (I Know This Much Is True) 246Chapter 6: Unboxing Television: Hybridity and New Approaches to Genre 263Feature Interview #6: Beyond the Generic: Interview with Nic Pizzolatto (True Detective), Sam Levinson (Euphoria) and Jay Duplass (Togetherness, Transparent) 337Epilogue: Television in the Multiplatform Era 350Bibliography 356Notes 373.