It was the highest-rated and most-watched one-hour entertainment special of the season.
Today, in the era of 24-hour entertainment news, stories of rock stars in peril have become ever more alluring.
But that structure is about the only aspect of this one-hour entertainment that doesn't gleam with originality.
Living TV bosses are billing the show as a "two-hour entertainment extravaganza" and the "biggest entertainment show on multichannel TV".
She and Mr. Shea are also the executive producers of the "Toni On!" series of half-hour entertainment and lifestyle segments for which she is the host.
Necessarily, such extracts or short stories, suitable for a two-hour entertainment, excluded some of his larger and deeper effects—notably, his social criticism and analysis and his later novels were underrepresented.
The modern gantlet of tabloid shows, talk shows, game shows, reality shows, awards shows, TV biographies and 24-hour entertainment cable stations has trained performers to package themselves airtightly around whatever project they are promoting.
Upon arrival, the audience is taken upstairs to change before being ushered back down and into a large subterranean room where they are invited to go to sleep, following (or, if the piece is successful, actually during) a two-hour entertainment intended to lull us off to the land of nod.
Why, the studios reasoned, should they give audiences three hours' entertainment for the price of one admission when they could hold half the narrative hostage for 12 months and double their money (4)?
"We've never looked at ['Transparent'] as anything but a continuous piece of five-hour entertainment," Joe Lewis, Amazon Studios' Head of Original Programming, said in 2014, as reported by Variety.
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