An aging, A-list movie star lotteries off the entirety of his mega-million blockbuster salary to a member of the general viewing public before taking up with a much younger model. His non-famous best friend (and often lover) looks on impassively, while recollecting their 20-odd years of unlikely connection. And an aspiring filmmaker, unknown to them both, labours over a script about best friends and lovers while longing for the financial freedom to make great art. Told in their alternating, intricately linked perspectives, ‘Television’ is a funny, philosophically astute novel about phenomenal luck, whether windfall or chance encounter.