Author: CSTonline

On Tuesday this week I arrived back in Australia, early in the morning, from three weeks conferencing and researching in Europe. I spent the day engaged in the gently restorative process of unpacking, washing, and sorting...

As the ‘History of Television for Women in Britain’ team heave a collective sigh of relief at the completion of our main ‘impact’ activities for this project, I thought I would take advantage of the opportunity of blogging...

I must admit that, when I first thought about writing something for this month, I planned on writing about the personal impact of season finales, like Mad Men’s or Justified’s or The Walking Dead’s. Although the rational part of...

As the whole world is about to discover, Britain is more than usually wet this year. As Charlie Brooker puts it, we will be trying to stage the Olympics under water. So imagine my delight at BBC One’s latest primetime...

There was an eerie feeling in Mexico City’s Benito Juárez Airport on the morning of July 1 as I made my way to Guadalajara to talk about global Hollywood, greening the media, cultural citizenship, and the new right of cultural...

I am currently sifting through some of the data from our 100+ interviews with television and digital media producers from the BBC, Channel 4 and the independent television and digital sector. Some of our central questions have...

I have decided to turn over a new leaf and to stop moaning about the lack of HBO on my TV screen. It all came about last weekend when I realised that I had been carrying this bitter burden for nearly a year now.  Rather than...

A lifetime of television viewing often encourages me to make unlikely connections.  Consider the wildly successful ‘Most Interesting Man in the World’ advertising campaign for Dos Equis beer (2007-present) produced by the...

As I wrote earlier this year, my TV viewing habits have, over the past 12 months, undergone a radical change.  Quality US drama series, once my favoured viewing choice, have now been moved exclusively to Sky Atlantic HD, which...