Annie Berke

Annie Berke is Film Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books and author of Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television (University of California Press, 2022).

Dec/Jan 21–22Film

All Too Hip, Not Too Jewish: Jake Kasdan’s The TV Set at 15 Years

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In many ways, The TV Set is the elder Millennial’s Network (1976). Both screenplays sprang from the imaginations of Jewish men (TV Set’s Kasdan, Network’s Paddy Chayefsky) looking to lampoon their experiences working in television.
All Too Hip, Not Too Jewish: Jake Kasdan’s The TV Set at 15 Years

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