Category: Commercial TV
EMMA CORONEL—FASHION DESIGNER, PAGEANT WINNER, REALITY STAR…NARCO WIFE by Toby Miller
You may have read about or seen VH1’s reality show Cartel Crew, which began in January and is...
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FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS: PART 3, ‘DON’T GO INTO THE BASEMENT’ by Kim Akass
My last blog for CSTonline (a response to Toby Miller’s first blog of this academic year) talked...
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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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CfP: The CW Network. Deadline: Aug 1, 2017
The CW network offers a compelling coming of age story reflective of its changing demographic. In...
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WHO WATCHES BRITISH TELEVISION TODAY, ANYWAY? by Toby Miller
The Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board, or BARB, tells us the who what, when, where, and how of...
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ODE TO ADAM AND JOE by Richard Hewett
A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, Friday nights were (all too briefly) enlivened by a...
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IRISH TELEVISION VIEWING IN A NOT SO GLOBAL TELEVISION ECONOMY by Sarah Arnold
When I moved from the UK to Ireland in 2015/16 my transition in terms of the availability...
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THE NIGHTLY SHOW: WHO’S WATCHING? by Lyndsay Duthie
It was a bold scheduling move on the part of ITV, the UK’s main commercial television channel....
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AN ANIMATED DISCUSSION OF CANONICITY by Richard Hewett
Canon: A collection or list of sacred books accepted as genuine: ‘the biblical canon’; The works...
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OPIOID-INDUCED CONSTIPATION, JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE, TV COMMERCIALS, CHRONIC LOWER BACK PAIN, AND ME by Toby Miller
I’m back living in the US, courtesy of five months researching with the Latin American studies...
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ADAPTing TO SOCIAL MEDIA TELEVISION by Dr Niki Strange
Previous blog posts by my Adapt colleague, Professor James Bennett, on our social media research...
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TV 101: TIPS FOR TEACHING TELEVISION by Lorna Jowett
I am often asked for my recommendations on what works in terms of teaching television at HE level....
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