Introduction 1SETH FRIEDMAN AND AMANDA KEELERPart I The Fringes of Prestige TV: Genre and Markers of Distinction1 Spies Like Us: Genre Mixing, Brand Building, and Reagans 1980s in TheAmericansDAVID R. COON2 Disrupting the Pattern of Prestige TV: FringeAMANDA KEELER3 But Is It Star Trek?: Prestige, Fandom, and the Return of Star Trek toTelevisionMURRAY LEEDER4 Negotiating Prestige on The CW: Is Roswell, New Mexico Another Show aboutTeenagers Getting F-cked Up and Having Sex or a Sophisticated Exploration ofRacial and Gender Politics?CATHERINE MARTINPart II How Contemporary Programming Met Prestige TV: UnconventionalDepictions of Cultural and Televisual Norms5 Prestige Adaptation by Design: The Commercial Appeal of Latinx Tropes inQueen of the SouthJAVIER RAMIREZ6 Tell Them We Are Gone: Imperial Narratives, Indigenous Perspectives, andPrestige in The TerrorJUSTIN O. RAWLINS7 Prestige Comedy: Contemporary Sitcom Narrative and Complexity in How I MetYour MotherANDRE W J. BOTTOMLEYPart III Top of the Media Hierarchy: Cinematization and TelevisionsElevation8 Running The Knick Show: Transfusing Steven Soderberghs Authorial Personainto the Prestige Medical SeriesSETH FRIEDMAN9 Legitimating Top of the Lake: Jane Campion, the Film Fest, and theMiniseriesW. D. PHILLIPS10 Specters of Serling: Authorship, Television History, and InheritedPrestige in The Twilight Zone (20192020)JOSIE TORRES BARTHAcknowledgmentsSelected BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex