Stephen Battaglio

Fall TV premiere week is just ahead, and with it will come new reality competitions, returning dramas, and even a revival of the live-audience sitcom. We speak with TV Guide Magazine business editor Stephen Battaglio about the musical implications and expectations of this season's lineup.

Stephen Battaglio discusses maverick television producer and talk show host David Susskind: one of the most important cultural figures of the 1950s through the 1970s. The biography David Susskind: A Televised Life tells the story of how a flamboyant impresario who began his career as an agent helped to define a fledgling television industry. The book is as much of a biography of an expansive and glamorous time in the television business as it is the life of one of its most colorful and important players.