Rod Serling at 100

One Writer's Acknowledgment

Joseph Dougherty

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Fayetteville Mafia Press
19 November 2024

Television scripts & screenplays; Biography: arts & entertainment; Screenwriting techniques

The year 2024 marks the centenary of Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery.

Emmy-winning writer Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars) picked this special anniversary to reflect on Serling and his contributions to television drama.

An appreciation and exploration of the five-time Emmy-winning writer'

s catalogue, Rod Serling at 100: One Writer'

s Acknowledgment looks at some of Serling'

s best known work and also some of his least acknowledged, inviting a new perspective on a master storyteller.

In the process, Dougherty takes a personal look at the time he spent in The Twilight Zone that led to his own award-winning writing career.

By: Joseph Dougherty
Imprint: Fayetteville Mafia Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781949024746
ISBN 10: 1949024741
Pages: 250
Publication Date: 19 November 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Joseph Dougherty is an Emmy and Humanitas Prize winner for his work on the groundbreaking series thirtysomething, he has written several movies for HBO including the remake of Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman directed by Christopher Guest, and the Emmy-winning noir/occult mashup Cast a Deadly Spell, which was nominated for a Ray Bradbury Award by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He is the author of The First Cylinder and A Screenwriter's Companion: Instruction, Opinion, Encouragement.