TV the Book ─ Two Experts Pick the Greatest American Shows of All Time

While working at the Newark Star-Ledger, Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall created a popular column debating the merits of then-current television. Eventually they went on to successful careers as critics elsewhere, but the debate raged on and now comes to an epic conclusion in TV (THE BOOK).

Alan and Matt have established The Pantheon of top TV shows using a complex, obsessively all-encompassing ranking system by which to order and stack them up against each other. With a mix of lively entries on critically acclaimed and commercially successful classics such as Seinfeld, The Sopranos, Star Trek, The Simpsons and Twin Peaks and illuminating essays on short-lived favorites such as Taxi,Freaks and Geeks, and My So-Called Life, TV (THE BOOK) is sure to spark conversation and debate among readers.

TV (THE BOOK) is a must-have for long-time television and film buffs and for young enthusiasts who, fresh off their latest Netflix binge, are looking to expand their knowledge of the medium and wondering what show to start streaming next.

Matt Zoller Seitz is the author of the New York Times bestsellerThe Wes Anderson Collection (Abrams, 2013). He has been a journalist, critic, and filmmaker for nearly 25 years, and he has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. He is the TV critic forNew York Magazine and Vulture.com, where he writes about current and classic TV and recaps notable series, includingMad Men, Breaking Bad, and Homeland. He is also editor-in-chief and lead film critic of RogerEbert.com.

Alan Sepinwall has been writing about television for close to twenty years. Formerly a TV critic forNewark's Star-Ledger (Tony Soprano's hometown paper), he currently writes the popular blog What's Alan Watching? on HitFix.com. Sepinwall's episode-by-episode approach to reviewing his favorite TV shows "changed the nature of television criticism," according to Slate, which called him "the acknowledged king of the form." He is the author ofThe Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever(Touchstone, 2012), which the New York Times' Michiko Kakutani named one of her 10 Favorite Books of 2012.