Six Seasons and a Movie: The Show That Broke Television

A rich and heartfelt look at a series that rewrote the rules of TV sitcoms

Chris Barsanti is the author of several books on pop culture, including What Would Keanu Do?, The Sci-Fi Movie Guide, Filmology, and (with Brian Cogan and Jeff Massey) Monty Python FAQ. A member of the National Book Critics Circle and Online Film Critics Society, he covers graphic novels for Publishers Weekly and has also been published in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, PopMatters, Film Journal International, and the Chicago Tribune. Jeff Massey is an associate Professor in the Royal English Department at Molloy College in Long Island, New York. He is the co-author of Everything I Ever Needed to Know About _____* I Learned from Monty Python and co-editor of the collection Heads Will Roll: Decapitation in the Medieval and Early Modern Imagination. Dr. Massey holds advanced degrees in both medieval and classical literatures, with a particular interest in mythology and monstrosity; werewolves are his specialty. Brian Cogan is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication at Molloy College. He is the author of The Encyclopedia of Punk and co-author of Everything I Ever Needed to Know About _____* I Learned from Monty Python, and has also written numerous articles on punk rock, comic books, and the intersection of politics and popular culture.