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 show.

Desperate to reunite with the woman he loves, Filman goes on a quest to return 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.

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