Category: UK TV
LOVE ISLAND, AFTER THE SUN HAS GONE DOWN by Lyndsay Duthie
Feb 24, 2020 | Audience, Blogs, Reality TV, UK TV | 0
ITV’s Love Island, where gorgeous singletons compete to find love, was the surprise reality hit of...
Read MoreMY SUMMER OF LOVE…..ISLAND by Nektaria McWilliams
Oct 5, 2018 | Blogs, Reality TV, UK TV | 0
The Royal Wedding kick-started, but by no means overshadowed the long, hot, English summer of...
Read MoreWHY LOVE ISLAND IS THE BEST KEPT GUILTY SECRET ON BRITISH TELEVISION by Lyndsay Duthie
This article was originally published on The Conversation on 4 June 2018. As is so often...
Read MoreTHE BBC GENDER PROBLEM: A CENTURY IN THE MAKING by Sarah Arnold
Last year I had the opportunity to spend time researching the women involved in the development of...
Read More‘IS THE FUTURE GOING TO BE ALL GIRL?’ DOCTOR WHO AND THE FRUSTRATIONS OF A FEMINIST by Lorna Jowett
Mar 23, 2018 | BBC, Blogs, Cult TV/Sci Fi/Horror, UK TV | 0
As someone who was fairly vocal about the need for long-running BBC flagship series Doctor Who to...
Read MoreGRONDA GRONDA! ‘PLAYING’ THE ADVENTURE GAME by Richard Hewett
Feb 23, 2018 | Blogs, Game Shows, UK TV | 0
I was talking to my colleague Robin Ellis the other day (not the Robin Ellis who used to be in...
Read MoreA WOMAN’S RIGHT TO FAIL? KAY MELLOR’S GIRLFRIENDS (2018) by Christine Geraghty
Maybe it’s a sign of true equality in television when a woman writer gets a truly terrible drama...
Read MoreUniversity of Westminster SSH Professorial Lecture: ‘Doctor Who – A British Alien?’
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities Professorial Lecture: Doctor Who: A British Alien?...
Read MoreMAPPING TELEVISION LANDSCAPES by Marcus K Harmes
I have spent much of the last two years in the company of a long dead British actor. In other...
Read More“YOU ALWAYS SAID YOU WERE AS GOOD AS ANY DOCTOR” – TRUST ME: A POST MID-STAFFS NURSES’ REVENGE FANTASY by Hannah Hamad
Jan 5, 2018 | BBC, Blogs, Medical Drama, UK TV | 0
2017 was something of an eventful year for British actor Jodie Whittaker. When the BBC announced...
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