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From Saturday Night to Sunday Night: My Forty Years of Laughter, Tears, and Touchdowns in TV

Maybe someday

41

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

65/100

Critics

17/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Dick Ebersol

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Date:

September 13, 2022

A memoir by the television executive detailing his pioneering work on Saturday Night Live, Sunday Night Football, the Olympics, the NBA, music videos, late night, and more.

What The Reviewers Say

Neal Justin,
The Star Tribune
Ebersol refuses to provide any real insight about the bigwigs he's befriended. Controversial figures like Daniel Stern, Don Ohlmeyer, Jeff Zucker and Robert Kraft all come across like saints. Michael Phelps gets so much love you'll want to give him another gold medal. The only darts he throws are at NBCUniversal chairman Steve Burke, who nudged Ebersol out of his lofty position — and the tips are pretty dull.

Publishers Weekly
... thoroughly entertaining.

Kirkus
The author entertainingly recounts inside stories about working in this fast-paced environment, especially as the business of televising live sporting events was rapidly building into a lucrative, global enterprise.