Atwood, Megan
Summary: Ten-year old Olive is going to be in a commercial, but she really is not sure she can land the gymnastics stunt written for it, and her cross-country email pal Molly is jealous and determined to get into a commercial herself (pretty much any commercial will do)--and now their friendship is threatened by their increasingly testy emails.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ATWSummary: Features hours of hilarious sketches, memorable skits from the original Season 4 cast, and all the original musical performances.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SATSummary: A late-night comedy show featuring memorable short skits, hilarious sketches, parodies of television commercials, a live guest band featuring original musical performances, and a pop-cultural guest host each week.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SATSammartino, Alexander
Summary: "The owner of a gun store embarks on a scheme to avoid bankruptcy by using his son's resurrection from a near-fatal drug overdose to create what he believes is the greatest television commercial anyone has ever seen"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SAM1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Scieszka, Jon.
Summary: Contemporary fables with tongue-in-cheek morals address such topics as homework, curfews, and television commercials.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCISummary: In this program, host Natalie Choquette informs viewers that no opera is more popular than Bizet’s Carmen. Its music is instantly recognizable, whether in concert or on television commercials. And yet Carmen was not a success at its premiere, nor did Bizet ever see his creation. In fact, due to the amount of ankle shown, the opera was actually considered scandalous!
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Summary: As this Bill Moyers program makes clear, television became another member of the family in the 1960s, both reflecting and influencing the era. The times were chaotic and TV whirled us into that chaos while also holding up a mirror to it: the assassination and funeral of John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the Apollo moon landing, the saga of the Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King, Jr....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010