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Remember when ITV’s new flagship current affairs programme Exposure (26 September 2011, 22.35) was itself exposed for using videogame footage, claiming it showed IRA members trying to shoot down a British army helicopter in...

http://www.fox.com/alcatraz/ takes you to Alcatraz, a new series that began on Gringo TV last month. Fox says this about the show: From executive producer J.J. Abrams (FRINGE, “Lost,” “Star Trek,” and the recent blockbuster...

January 2009. “I am a believer in evolution not revolution.” “Things are changing and its really important that we make sure that as they change, they change for the better and Dr. Horrible was just a little...

Passion and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the groundlings, among the beggars and rakers of the garbage, profound passion is enacted. And the...

Recent CST blogs have taken up the ‘end of TV theme’, arguing that timeshift viewing, video-on-demand and box-set bingeing is the end of broadcast TV. It’s more complicated than that, surely. Consider these bits of argument: 1....

I’ve left Mexico and moved back to my beloved, benighted, lonesome home of LA. Improbably, in balmy temperatures, there are skaters on the Pershing Square rink that I look down on from my loft. It’s some distance from Coyoacán...

Steven Peacock’s recent observation that many academic analyses of television too often become ‘systematic, determined to “solve” the text’s engagement with a specific subject’  is a timely reminder that our evaluation of ...

I had never been a particular fan of Dennis Potter, but this was different. The film noir atmosphere, the unreliable narrator, ambiguous events and characters, the explicit play with the genres of fiction, both popular and...