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films/tvshows/books about academics working

On those days when preparing lectures, reading articles or doing other "academia stuff" seems like the most boring thing ever, I like to read or watch something with university lecturers in it just doing their jobs (preferably in awesome-looking offices and libraries). I find it quite motivational. The problem is that most lablit reading lists or wikipedia collections mention things that actually have very little to do with what academia looks like. Professors lecturing to rapt audiences about forensics and then taking off to the Maldives in a government helicopter to fight crime, or impossibly goodlooking postdocs saving the world from deadly viruses... Indiana Jones, Da Vinci Code, Guilt etc. To say nothing of when rival academics kill each other for the royalties from co-written books. Eyeroll.

**Can you think of any books, films or TV shows that feature lecturers and academics doing normal everyday things?** 

Some that occur to me are Still Alice, or the beginning of the new Discovery of Witches that is more about doing research at the Bod than dating vampires (that goes downhill quickly though). Some bits of Unabomber are quite good. As for books, I find Elly Griffith's series about Ruth Galloway has a lot of realistic moments about class prep and teaching.
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In Contact, a lot of time is spent waiting, a lot of time is spent unsuccessfully begging funding agencies for money, a lot of time is spent trying to navigate bureaucracies you don't understand.

It has some more fantastic elements, of course, but it's pretty obvious it was written by someone from the academic jungle.