GENRE OUT OF THE BOX ON MISS FISHER’S MURDER MYSTERIES: THE EVOLUTION OF A CRITIC by Martha P. Nochimson
A 2 Part Blog Part One: Which Genre? In a recent article about the fiction of Angela Carter on...
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A ‘PSYCHIATRIST’ FOR SOME GREEK TV STATIONS: THE ‘WATERLOO’ OF THE PRESTIGIOUS TELEVISED INFORMATION PROCESS by Katerina Serafeim
A few days ago the Greek public opinion received a huge shock after the Hellenic Police solved the particularly heinous crime that was hidden behind the disappearance of a 4-year-old girl from Bulgaria, who lived with her mother...
Read MoreHAVE A GREAT LONDON WEEKEND – WATCHING TELEVISION IN ONE CITY WITH TWO ITVs by Billy Smart
One of the great pleasures and challenges of conference organisation is putting interesting and complimentary panels together from the abstracts you receive. Planning that you put into this always pays off in the end, looking at...
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A ‘PSYCHIATRIST’ FOR SOME GREEK TV STATIONS: THE ‘WATERLOO’ OF THE PRESTIGIOUS TELEVISED INFORMATION PROCESS by Katerina Serafeim
A few days ago the Greek public opinion received a huge shock after the Hellenic Police solved the...
Read MoreREMEMBERING TELEVISION DRAMA by Christine Geraghty
Remembering television drama: ‘Television Drama: the Forgotten, the Lost and the Neglected’ Conference, April, 2015 Despite the tendency in television studies to emphasise the contemporary, British television studies has...
Read MoreALL ABOARD SLOW TV: CAPTURING THE EXPERIENCE OF WALKING ON TV by Catherine Johnson
In April 2013 I walked the Pennine Way – a 268-mile trek from Edale in Derbyshire up the spine of England and into Kirk Yetholm in Scotland. Almost exactly two years later, on 24th April 2015 the Pennine Way reached its...
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WHAT ACTORS DO: JENNIFER ANISTON IN FRIENDS by Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox
So far in our blog strand, we have been looking at moments of performance that are quite...
Read MoreKEEPING TV IN PERSPECTIVE by Richard Hewett
One of the challenges of returning to my parents’ for the weekend (as I write, the bank holiday is looming) is the inevitable evening trawl for something watchable on television via such channels as Drama or ITV3. When we...
Read MoreTELEVISION, BIG DATA, AND THE DIGITAL DARK AGE by JP Kelly
Last week I spent three wonderful and intellectually stimulating days at the Forgotten Television Drama conference; an event that was organised by a number of my colleagues in the department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway (you...
Read MorePOLITICS AND TELEVISION: CLEARLY NOT JUST MY PROBLEM by Elke Weissmann
I’m in the grip of politics fever. I can hardly concentrate; I want to know what is happening. Less than one week to go to the general election in the UK, and the two main political parties are neck and neck. I cannot do...
Read MoreTHERE’S ALWAYS WATER – WATER THAT SHOULDN’T BE THERE. REMEMBER ME (2014) AND THE HAUNTED SEASCAPES OF BRITISH TELEVISION by Mark Fryers
The promenade at Scarborough. A ghostly and malevolent female figure appears by the seafront, cloaked in a sari. The apparition of mysterious brine accompanies her presence and the art-deco seafront is covered in mysterious...
Read MorePOLITICS AND TELEVISION: CLEARLY NOT JUST MY PROBLEM by Elke Weissmann
I’m in the grip of politics fever. I can hardly concentrate; I want to know what is happening. Less than one week to go to the general election in the UK, and the two main political parties are neck and neck. I cannot do...
Read MoreTHE CHAOS OF CHOICE ON TELEVISION by Douglas Howard
So, the other night, I spent somewhere in the neighborhood of half an hour just channel surfing—not watching anything in particular, just scrolling through the channel guide. If I actually surfed and had been surfing out on a...
Read MoreTHE ADVENT OF THE TV BLOCKBUSTER by Simon Brown
As March wore on and the end of term approached, I was preparing a ‘taster’ teaching session for an upcoming post-applicant day. This is an open day for prospective university students who have already applied and been offered...
Read MoreFROM RAMSAY STREET, WITH LOVE by Liz Giuffre
Dear Britain, On behalf of Australia, I’m really sorry about Neighbours. Honestly, we had no idea that a little soapie based in a fictional place outside Melbourne would go for so long. We had no idea you’d love it as much as...
Read MoreSOUNDING LONELINESS by Sean Redmond
Hello darkness, my old friend I’ve come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted In my brain still remains Within the sound of silence ...
Read MoreRESURRECTED VISIONS ON YOUTUBE: THE LARGE DOOR CHANNEL by John Ellis
Easter being the time of resurrection, I spent part of the break uploading to YouTube some of the programmes I produced for Channel 4 in the 1980s and 1990s. So there is now a Large Door channelfor our moribund independent...
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BEING CRITICAL ABOUT ‘CRITICAL’ by David Levente Palatinus
(TV that just didn’t get it right…) Medical television is subversive. Because it touches upon...
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THE WOMAN BEHIND GOGGLEBOX: AN INTERVIEW WITH TANIA ALEXANDER 3 by Stefania Marghitu
*This interview was edited for clarity. It was conducted via phone with e-mail followups. Did you...
Read MoreHOW TO WATCH TV – OR NOT by Pat Holland
No, I’m not planning to write about Goggle Box -although I’m constantly struck by the contrast between the high-pitched engagement of the sofa-sitters (after all it did win the 2014 BAFTA award for ‘constructed factual’...
Read MoreCONFERENCE REPORT: THEATRE AND TELEVISION: ADAPTATION, PRODUCTION, PERFORMANCE by Billy Smart
University of Westminster at Alexandra Palace, 19-20 February 2015 Few forms of TV drama have historically been more neglected within television studies than the adapted stage play. With the exception of Jeremy Ridgman’s handy...
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THE WOMAN BEHIND GOGGLEBOX 2: AN INTERVIEW WITH TANIA ALEXANDER by Stefania Marghitu
Pt. II: The Making and Casting of Gogglebox *This interview was edited for clarity. It was...
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CUCUMBER AS ‘POST-GAY’ TELEVISION by Michael Lovelock
Gay-themed drama on British television has become largely synonymous with the name of Russell T...
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THE WOMAN BEHIND GOGGLEBOX: AN INTERVIEW WITH TANIA ALEXANDER by Stefania Marghitu
*This interview was edited for clarity. It was conducted via phone with e-mail followups. Part 1:...
Read MoreSAVED BY THE SCHEDULE by Richard Hewett
Unlike an increasing number of colleagues, my television viewing is still largely tied to the broadcast schedule. This is entirely due to my being a creature of habit; while I am willing and able to adapt to the new, it’s...
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