Category: Cable
SKY HIGH… BUT FOR HOW LONG? by John Ellis
It’s all happening around Sky at the moment. The first was an unexpected bid from the US giant...
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The CW, Legitimate Television, and Gendering by Bärbel Göbel-Stolz
“The US network The CW celebrates its ten-year anniversary this year.” That is the opening...
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WHY CAN’T I FIND ANYTHING TO WATCH ON TV? by John Ellis
Why has the television business made it so hard for its users to find something they want to...
Read MoreAVOIDING DISAPPOINTMENT – JUDGING A TV SHOW BY ITS FINALE by Claire Burdfield
A year ago Elke Weissmann wrote about finding time for television, and discussed that when we actually find that limited time in our day to sit down and watch television, we do not actually watch television. Instead we watch a...
Read MoreFROM CHANGING CHANNELS TO LAUNCHING APPS: OBSERVATIONS ON THE SMART TV MARKET by JP Kelly
After many happy years basking in its warm, electronic glow, my once-reliable television set recently emitted its final diodes of light. An ominous dark patch in the upper left corner of the screen had been growing larger over...
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METICULOUS WORLD-BUILDING IN SPACE: THE EXPANSE, AND THE CURRENT RESURGENCE OF SCIENCE FICTION ON TV by Tobias Steiner
It’s been one of those days. The Christmas holidays had been lurking around the corner, and...
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A MAD MEN POTPOURRI by Gary Edgerton
Mad Men [is] arguably the dominant TV drama of its time. — Time critic James Poniewozik, 24 June...
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WHAT ACTORS DO: ADAM DRIVER IN GIRLS by Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox
Graduating from the Juilliard School as recently as 2009, Adam Driver is currently experiencing a...
Read MoreDÉJÀ VIEW: REMAKES, REBOOTS, AND THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION by Doug Howard
So here’s a list of show titles for you: The X-Files, Twin Peaks, Prison Break, The A-Team, Hart to Hart, Gilmore Girls, Star Trek, Full House, and Magyver. Looking at it, you might think that this was a catalog of DVD box sets...
Read MorePARENT INVASION: DADS AND THE MILLERS – TWO NEW INTERGENERATIONAL SITCOMS PART 1 by Jamila Baluch
At a time when a growing number of older persons in the United States are living with their adult children (between 2000 and 2011, this figure rose from 2.2 million to 4.6 million[1]), the U.S. broadcast networks Fox and CBS...
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