Making It

Although this novel brilliantly illuminates early days of television, it's fascinating characters and plot are even more compelling. With rare narrative drive, the book sweeps the reader along, enmeshed in a unique love triangle, in the interplay of ambition, greed, fear, and the pursuit of power. As if those qualities were not enough, this novel has something to say, and its characters will stay with you long after you have turned the last page.

MAKING IT novelist Ira Skutch takes us behind the screen to that exciting time when television became the most powerful influence in America. Entwined together in business, friendship and sex, three bright and aggressive people climb the heights of success in the heady days of the birth of network television. Along the way, they must deal with agents, clients, producers and characters who range from the warmest to the most reptilian. The reader gets an insight into the agonies caused by the McCarthy era. Ira Skutch started as an NBC page. His career grew as quickly as the network grew itself; and he went from stage manager to commercial producer/director and vice president of Goodson-Todman Productions, logging over 10,000 episodes of shows such as I've Got A Secret, Beat The Clock, Play Your Hunch, Match Game and Password.