Author: CSTonline

EMMA CORONEL—FASHION DESIGNER, PAGEANT WINNER, REALITY STAR…NARCO WIFE by Toby Miller

Nov 22, 2019 | Audience, Blogs, Commercial TV, Reality TV

You may have read about or seen VH1’s reality show Cartel Crew, which began in January and is...

FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS: PART 3, ‘DON’T GO INTO THE BASEMENT’ by Kim Akass

Nov 15, 2019 | Audience, Blogs, Commercial TV, Medical Drama, Reality TV, US TV

My last blog for CSTonline (a response to Toby Miller’s first blog of this academic year) talked...

THE PERSISTENCE OF TELEVISION: STAND-ALONE EPISODES by Martin Zeller-Jacques

Apr 12, 2019 | Blogs, Drama, Netflix, Quality TV

In 2006, when I started out in television studies, the discipline was reckoning with the impact of...

KSI vs Logan Paul YouTube boxing match: stars sparring with traditional broadcasters to make millions by Lyndsay Duthie

Aug 25, 2018 | Blogs, Events, Sport, Youtube

The amateur boxing match between YouTube stars KSI (UK) and Logan Paul (USA) on August 25 could...

Blog Submission Guidelines

Jun 8, 2018 | Uncategorized

CSTonline welcomes blogs on any aspect of television: conference reports, reviews, immediate responses to current debates within TV as well as short academic pieces. As we are online there is no word limit, however, 1,000 words...

SKY HIGH… BUT FOR HOW LONG? by John Ellis

Mar 9, 2018 | Amazon, Blogs, Cable, Commercial TV, Netflix, News, Sky TV, Streaming, Transnational TV

It’s all happening around Sky at the moment. The first was an unexpected bid from the US giant...

HOLLYWOOD APOCALYPSE by Gary R Edgerton

Feb 2, 2018 | #MeToo, Blogs, Gender, Legislation, News, Politics, Social media

Steal a little and they throw you in jail, Steal a lot and they make you king. — Bob Dylan,...

QUANTITATIVE STUDIES IN TELEVISION (PART 2): ALGORITHMS IN ACADEMIA by JP Kelly

Feb 2, 2018 | Amazon, Audience, Blogs, Hulu, Netflix, Netflix, Social media, Streaming, Technology, Transnational TV

This is a follow up to my last post for CST. Given that this is a blog about television it seems...

CFP: Independent Women: From Film to Television

Jan 2, 2018 | CFP, CFPs Journals, Gender, HBO, Netflix, Performance, Streaming, Transnational TV

Issue Guest Editors: Claire Perkins (Monash University) and Michele Schreiber (Emory University) Working in television has historically been considered ‘bread and butter’ labour for female filmmakers around the world. For...

R.I.P. DAVID CASSIDY (12.4.50 – 21.11.17) by Kim Akass

Nov 22, 2017 | Audience, Blogs, Box sets / DVD, UK TV, US TV

I woke up this morning to multiple messages from friends saying how sorry they were that David...

WHEDON, WEINSTEIN AND WHY FEMINISM MATTERS by Lorna Jowett

Nov 22, 2017 | Audience, Blogs

In August 2017, The Wrap published an article written by Kai Cole, architect,actor and producer...

MORE FEMALE EXECUTIVES WOULD STEM THE SEXIST ROT IN HOLLYWOOD by Lyndsay Duthie

Oct 20, 2017 | Amazon, Blogs, Gender, News

Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood producer with 300 Oscar nominations, has fallen. After The New...

REGISTRATION CLOSING – Game of Thrones: An International Conference University of Hertfordshire, De Havilland Campus, 6-7 September 2017

Aug 15, 2017 | CFPs conferences, Transnational TV, US TV

Co-organised by the Media Research Group of the Schools of Creative Arts and Humanities...

THE CROWN FAILS TO TAKE THE CROWN AT BAFTAS by Lyndsay Duthie

May 17, 2017 | BBC, Blogs, Costume/Historical Drama, Crime, Genres, Netflix, Public Service Broadcasting

The big question of this year’s BAFTAs was how many awards Netflix would romp home with. Most of...

MARILYN MONROE’S TELEVISION SET by Geoff Lealand

May 17, 2017 | Blogs, Technology

The end of my university career approaches as a result of my (reluctant) acceptance of voluntary...

WHO WATCHES BRITISH TELEVISION TODAY, ANYWAY? by Toby Miller

May 17, 2017 | Audience, BBC, Blogs, Commercial TV, UK TV

The Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board, or BARB, tells us the who what, when, where, and how of...

A DEFENCE OF 13 REASONS WHY by William Proctor

May 17, 2017 | Blogs, Gender, Genres, Netflix, Netflix, Streaming

As the media firestorm surrounding the Netflix TV series 13 Reasons Why continues apace, I...

CFP: Trans TV – 13-15 September 2017, University of Westminster

May 8, 2017 | CFP, CFPs conferences, Conferences/events, Gender, Netflix, production, Transnational TV

Transformations of Television Industries Transformations of Television Consumption Practices Transformations of Televisual Aesthetics, Narratives and Identities 21st Century Transnational and Transmedia Television Practices...