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«Boob tube» no more: television is basking in a «golden age» of critical acclaim. finews.com looks at where bankers and businesspeople can pick up useful tidbits during their TV-watching.

Black Monday

Swaggering traders, everyday sexual harassment with no consequences, heaps of cocaine – we must be on Wall Street before the 1987 stock market crash. The HBO comedy-drama, which just launched last month, gets the frenetic pace of 1980s Wall Street right, not to mention the big hair and bad fashion. The jury's out on whether the series hits the right dramatic and comedic notes in its telling of what caused the crash.