Baywatch : Rescued From Prime Time

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Summary: Surprised!
Review: A friend of mine gave me this book. (He knows I'm a big fan of Alexandra Paul - she was a Baywatch star - in my opinion she's much sexier than Pamela Anderson.) Anyway, I figured this would just be a fluff piece - a few paragraphs to fill in the space between all the pictures (which are excellent, by the way). To my surprise, I found the book to be quite interesting. Basically it's one guy's story - how he thought up the idea for Baywatch - how he spent years trying to get someone interested - how he fought to get the show back on the air after it was canceled by NBC. I found the story to be downright exciting. Overall, I think you don't need to be a Baywatch fan to enjoy the book - it's a good read.

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Summary: Baywatch: Rescued from Prime Time
Review: Baywatch isn't Shakespear but then again neither is 99.99% of the stuff on TV. Nonetheless, my kids and I enjoy watching the show, and I really enjoyed reading the book. The author - the same guy who created the show - takes the reader through the process of getting Baywatch on the air - first at NBC and then on syndicated TV. I was truly impressed by the sheer amount of work this guy did to make it a success. Clearly he has a work ethic that most of us mere mortals can only envy. And if anyone is interested in a how-to for creating their own TV series, you could get a lot of good ideas from this book.

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Summary: Who wrote this?
Review: I can tell that whoever wrote the scripts did not write the book. Actually I have read Assault on Lake Casitas by Brad Alan Lewis. Rescued from Prime Time definitely exhibits his intelligent writing style. What is he doing associating himself with Baywatch? I guess this is one way to bring a little class to this old, cliched TV series. By the way, the Baywatch book is pretty interesting.

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Summary: Boring, self-indulgent, insipid look at Baywatch
Review: If I was drowning I would not want the author of this pitiful book to rescue me. He would pobably have photographers waiting to take his picture to make himself out as a hero, then drop me face first in the sand. I'm sure there were a lot of talented people involved with making Baywatch the phenomenal international success it became. But if this author is to be believed he did it alone in spite of everyone else's lack of talent. This man's ego is large enough to float that sunken Russian sub to the surface all by itself.

My advise is to pass on buying this book unless you want to be another air bubble pumped into the swelled head of a hack writer.

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Summary: Indepth Look at the Business behind a TV Series
Review: No one is ever going to remember "Baywatch" as a well-written or well-acted TV series (and I should know, I once "wrote" for it, and I use that term loosely). What the public will remember are the bodies, and what the TV industry will remember is the miraculous, ingenius, and ground-breaking resurrection of the canceled show into a world-wide success. If you can get past the painfully self-congratulatory nature of the book towards the author, the producers, and the show itself, you are left with a rare, detailed, inside look at how to finance and produce a TV series for an international market. That story alone is well-worth the cover price and sets it far apart from other books of its kind. Greg Bonann is a candid, knowledgeable, congenial, and enthusiastic guide through the world of television production, international financing, and domestic syndication... and if you can endure his frequent, self-indulgent lapses into egotism and hype, you'll actually learn some fascinating stuff.

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Summary: A must for every Baywatch-fan !
Review: This book is a real must for each Baywatch-fan.
Gregory J. Bonann (the author and producer of the show)
clearely writes how the show and the idea begann.
In this book you can find some rear photographs
of the series and actors.
Also, a very complete book, because it has
a complete episode list behind in which are mentioned
all the artists that had featured songs on Baywatch.
The format is normal and paper quality very good.