Author: CSTonline

So Mad Men is coming to these shores next week? I should be glad, of course I should. The return of one of the best shows to come out of America since The Sopranos should be celebrated. In New York, the fifth season has...

BBC4 is featuring interviews at the moment, examining this most basic taken-for-granted of TV. They’re doing the inevitable extracts series; rescreening samples from the archives; putting up classics on their website; getting...

Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries Research Seminars 2011/12 5-6pm, Wednesday 14 March Zen Room, The ATRiuM, 86-88 Adam Street, Cardiff CF24 2FN Dr Lez Cooke (Royal Holloway University of London) – The...

Dateline: the “What is Television?” event in Portland, Oregon. This marvelous conference is under the benign and brilliant direction of Janet Wasko, a trusted leader in the field. On this opening morning, I’m sitting between Dan...

With business seemingly everywhere on television, from the risks of the retail and restaurant trade to pitching for investment or competing to become the next ‘apprentice’, The Television Entrepreneurs draws upon...

So My Big, Fat, Gypsy Wedding is under attack for being racist? This week’s outcry over Channel 4’s advertising campaign smacks of a certain hypocrisy and no small amount of double-dealing in my eyes. Accused of stereotyping...

I first saw Melancholia (von Trier, 2011) on my TV during the day while home alone. A few weeks later I saw it again at the cinema with friends.  It’s a film about two sisters Justine (Kirsten Dunst) a chronic depressive, and...