The theory/practice ‘divide’ has long bedeviled media studies. But this divide cannot be sustained in the face of new concerns in the field. Studies of gaming and computing emphasize issues that studies of audiovisual media have...
Read MoreA decade ago, Bernie Sanders and I arrived on the same plane from New York to a public event in the mid-west. We were allocated shared transport from the airport, so I spent maybe forty minutes with him. The event we were headed...
Read MoreFor many, Lisa Kudrow will forever be associated with Friends (NBC, 1994-2004), the epitome of conservative network television. And yet, with both The Comeback (HBO, 2005; 2014) and Web Therapy (L Studio; Showtime: 2008—), the...
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My eyes lit up when I saw her – I’d dreamt of seeing her in the flesh since I first laid eyes...
Read MoreCast your minds back, if you will, to the year 2010, when the BBC was poised to launch a brand new detective on our screens. Dark and tousle-haired, his deductive powers would prove a constant source of amazement to his more...
Read MoreAt the moment I’m editing a book on Music in Comedy Television. As part of the project I decided to go back to iconic pieces of comedy television I remember having had a musical impact, starting with 80s sitcoms (judge me, go...
Read MoreChristmas is long gone and some of its televisual pleasures have been explored in the CST blogs by Kenneth Longden (https://cstonline.net/bbc-christmas and https://cstonline.net/sherlock-abominable) and Lorna Jowett...
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It was in the November of 1989 when the first private television station in Greece...
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The BBC is under threat like never before. That seems to be the consensus about the two events of...
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I passed my viva! Hurrah! Good, now that’s out of the way, let’s talk about Channel 4 Comedy...
Read MoreJust before Christmas I was suffering from ‘Flue, we had just lost our third pet in a year and I was not at my best in a number of other ways. I arose from my sick bed mildly feverish by then and sought comfort in Television...
Read MoreLiz Giuffre’s earlier blog ‘From Ramsay Street, With Love’ starts with an apology and ends with an assurance that Australians know that long-running soap Neighbours is ‘a bit embarrassing and a bit backward’. As a...
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Sometimes, things coincide to throw a particular interesting light on an issue that needs raising....
Read MoreLong before the end of Christmas television viewing and schedules, broadcasters and production companies herald their new season of television viewing. It is part of that tradition where we say goodbye to the old year, and...
Read MoreI expect many people complained this holiday season that there was very little to entice in the television schedules. Sherlock and Doctor Who’s specials were written about by Kenneth Longden in a recent blog for CST Online. BARB...
Read MoreDefiance (2013-15) was an original commission science-fiction TV series which has aired on the SyFy channel in both the US and the UK. Set on Earth in the near-future after a war between humans and immigrant aliens who arrived...
Read MoreFirst it was a river. Then it was a bookstore. Then it sold power drills and pen refills. Now it’s a movie studio inviting one and all to submit scripts and videos? Amazon’s key insight has always been that distribution...
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The Christmas television schedules have, for many years, introduced a sense of the Carnavalesque...
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Although starting its operations as a commercial venture in November 2015, the new online BBC...
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Graduating from the Juilliard School as recently as 2009, Adam Driver is currently experiencing a...
Read MoreStock characters in entertainment television are well known to all of us: the wise old man, the nurturing mother, and the rebellious teenager evoke images in our mind, accompanied by a set of character traits and flaws. They are...
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FOX’s horror-comedy series Scream Queens is the latest addition to the canon of Ryan Murphy and...
Read MoreDoctor Who fans were perhaps expecting a slow 2015. As Steven Moffat said himself in a recent interview with The Radio Times, “This year is not a new Doctor year, it’s not an anniversary, or a new companion year … it’s dangerous...
Read MoreThis paper aims to explore, and expand upon, a theme I recently raised at The Media Across Borders conference, Roehampton University (June, 2015), in relation to global television formats and the transnational. In particular, it...
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In 1990, Charlotte Brunsdon wrote an article entitled ‘Problems with Quality’. It examined British...
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