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My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound...

After the spectacle and drama of live television during an obsessive month of watching the Olympics and Paralympics, the television schedules began to turn to something like normal in the beginning of September and it became...

‘Dear Mr Miller John Lewis PLC has let us know that you recently bought TV equipment. However, we can’t find a record of a TV license for this address.’ The quotation above comes from a letter I received, signed by Carl...

As television criticism goes, HBO’s The Newsroom probably set a new record for the number of scathing, negative reviews that it received.  From its “pedantic lectures disguised as rat-a-tat-tat dialogue” (Grunwald) to its...

‘Performance and Television Space’, a one day symposium held at the University of Glamorgan’s Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries on 20th April 2012, was the second in a series of three conferences organised by...

It’s complicated, being an American, having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time. (Louis Simpson from ‘On the Lawn at the Villa,’ Selected Poems, 1965) I haven’t given up yet on Aaron Sorkin’s newest...

I’ve got the Bieber fever. I am going to hold up a giant placard, with Justin’s name on, outside his St. Kilda hotel, with a thousand other screaming fans. I am going to shout, ‘I love you Justin’. Justin, just touch my hand....

The Royal Television Society may claim to be ‘Britain’s leading forum for television and related media’ but it can still look like a rather old-fashioned institution. The Prince of Wales is its Patron and John Logie Baird was...

In seeking to capture and manage attention within a competitive media landscape, promotion has become a major component of broadcast output, from the exponential increase in promos, logos, idents and trailers, to new forms of...