Sign-In
Cart
TV Heaven
Paperback
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN13: 9798191043708
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 15 2026
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 15 2026
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Filman is the showrunner of a TV show called The Showrunner about a showrunner making a TV show called The Showrunner. Confused? So was the audience-or lack thereof. When the show gets abruptly canceled mid-season, Filman finds himself magically transported to TV Heaven, a surreal town full of the greatest characters from television history. There he meets an assortment of citizens spanning a century of shows-from grayscale to animated, old to young, human, animal, robot, alien, and everything in between. However, something is missing from this seeming paradise: Emma, the co-star and love interest from his show. As Filman struggles to adjust to life in TV Heaven, he goes through an existential crisis upon realizing he was just a fictional character on a television series. Desperate to reunite with the woman he loves, Filman goes on a quest to escape to the real world and find Emma. Hopefully then they can revive their show and give fans the cathartic ending they deserve.
TV Heaven: A Novel by T.Z. Barry For fans of The Truman Show, Pleasantville, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Stranger Than Fiction, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, The Good Place, The Studio, Hollywood satire, and television history. What people are saying about TV Heaven:
Welcome to TV Heaven... It's where you go when you have no show.
- I love acting. It is so much more real than life. - Oscar Wilde
- Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen
- I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. - Orson Welles
- The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television-but then again, television, at its best, is magnificent. - Steve Jobs
- You've not felt the pain of rejection until a television show based on your own life is canceled. - Ryan Murphy
- The discarnate TV user lives in a world between fantasy and dream, and is in a typically hypnotic state, which is the ultimate form and level of participation. - Marshall McLuhan
- Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world. - David Caruso
- The space between the television set and the viewer is holy ground. - Fred Rogers
Welcome to TV Heaven... It's where you go when you have no show.
Also from
Barry, T. Z.
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
$38.00
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
From $14.99
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
From $17.99
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Musil, Robert
Agee, Joel
Paperback
$79.43
Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Bruccoli, Matthew J.
Baughman, Judith
Paperback
$50.74