The Revolution was Televised: How the Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Lost, and Other Groundbreaking Dramas Changed TV Forever

The Revolution was Televised is collection of short but occasionally informative pieces on the creation of several critically-acclaimed TV shows, including The Sopranos, Oz, The Wire, Deadwood, The Shield, Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24, Battlestar Galactica, Friday Night Lights, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad. When a TV show is successful a small number of people typically get most of the credit, but these profiles show there are other important factors as well — network input that sometimes is helpful (“Don Draper needs to have a secret,” an AMC executive told Matt Weiner), flexibility in plot lines (The Sopranos wasn’t initially written to be a mob drama), and a lot of luck and fortunate timing.