Journal of American Culture:

Television criticism has stepped up to a new level of maturity with this collection of scholarly writing on genres and genre-related studies.

Journal of Popular Culture:

First-rate  .  .  .  a readable and understandable volume that is accessible to students and scholars  .  .  .  It offers considerable breadth and sufficient depth for the student to gain a general overview of television and a sense of how television can be analyzed.

Communication Booknotes Quarterly:

Edgerton and Rose have combined forces to revive and update genre research  .  .  .  This is a useful reading from a number of the key researchers helping to define a field of academic study.

Television Quarterly:

An important volume to those interested in furthering scholarship of television genre studies.  The ideas that Edgerton and Rose have assembled here deserve to be discussed again and again by media scholars and students.

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

Edgerton and Rose have written and assembled a compelling collection of essays.  The book makes a persuasive case for continued research into genres along with their function in communicating across texts, audiences, and industries.