DEATH BY FRANCHISE: GOODBYE RICK GRIMES, IT’S BEEN EMOTIONAL: THE SURVIVAL AND EXPANSION OF AMC’S THE WALKING DEAD (2010 – ) by Stella Gaynor
Central character Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) has left The Walking Dead, and no, he wasn’t...
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CfP: Convergence special issue “Back to the Future: Telling and Taming Anticipatory Media Visions and Technologies”. Deadline: Dec 1, 2018.
Back to the Future: Telling and Taming Anticipatory Media Visions and Technologies Special Issue...
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HERE WE WITCH AGAIN: JUDGING THE CHARMED REBOOT by Elke Weissmann
I thought this week would be a good week to finally talk about Charmed (The WB, 1998-2006, The CW,...
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CfP: edited collection on “Trauma, Memory, and Disability in the Whedonverse”. Deadline: Dec 15, 2018.
Edited by Alyson R. Buckman, Juliette C. Kitchens, and Katherine A. Troyer Co-editors...
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HOLLOW HALLOWEEN HOKUM: ARE AMERICAN HORROR STORY: APOCALYPSE’S (FX 2018) SELF-REFERENTIAL SCARES FALLING FLAT? by Darren Elliott-Smith
Anthology Gothic horror series American Horror Story (henceforth AHS) has, since its inception,...
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NATIONALISM BREAKS THROUGH AT THE MOST UNLIKELY TIMES by Tom Nicholls
I recently retired after more than 30 years of teaching. Much of those thirty years were spent...
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WHEN YOU’RE IN SPACE THE WHOLE COSMOS IS BRITISH by Danny Nicol
The new series of Doctor Who is notable for its inclusivity. Much attention has rightly focused...
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CfP: NANO, special issue “Twin Peaks: Season Three”. Deadline: Jan 31, 2019.
Issue 15 Call for Papers DEADLINE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 Special Issue: Twin Peaks: Season...
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CfP: BAFTSS 7th Annual conference 2019 “Intersecting Identities: Race, Sex, Nation” April 25-17, 2019 @ University of Birmingham (UK). Deadline: Dec 14, 2018.
Intersectionality as a concept was born at the end of the 1980s, and has proven influential ever...
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CfP: SERIES. International Journal of TV Serial Narratives incl. special section on “Making Models of Contemporary Serial Media Products”. Deadline: Jan 31, 2019.
SERIES. International Journal of TV Serial Narratives” (https://series.unibo.it) is an open access...
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CfP: edited volume “#Resist: Protest and Resistance Media in Brexit Britain and Trump-era USA”. Deadline: Oct 25, 2018.
Call for Papers:#Resist: Protest and Resistance Media in Brexit Britain and Trump-era USA (edited...
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GOLIATH, BOSCH, AND THE CODE by Toby Miller
Goliath. It began last year, and the second season became available this past northern summer....
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CfP: conference “Race, Gender and Technology in Science-Fiction” April 25-27, 2019 @ Maison Française, Oxford (UK). Deadline: Dec 1, 2018.
Call for papers: Maison Française d’Oxford 2019 Interdisciplinary Conference: Race, Gender and...
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CfP: conference session “Stranger Things: Locating design in science fiction and fantasy films” April 4-6, 2019 @ Brighton (UK). Deadline: Nov 5, 2018.
Association of Art Historians 2019 Annual Conference, Brighton 4-6 April: CFP: Stranger Things:...
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CfP: conference “Tele(visualising) Health: TV, Public Health, its Enthusiasts and its Publics” Feb 27 – March 1, 2019 @ Senate House, London (UK). Deadline: Nov 15, 2018.
CALL FOR PAPERS – ERC Healthy Self as Body Capital & Centre for History in Public Health...
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CfP: symposium “Television drama, law and national identity” Sept 6, 2019 @ University of Westminster (UK). Deadline: Feb 01, 2019.
Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture Westminster Law School Television drama, law and...
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Walking in the Middle of the Road: Working-class homecoming in British TV Drama. Nov 2, 2018 @ Birkbeck, London (UK)
British TV and the Working-Class Homecoming: Stand Up, Nigel Barton/ The Land of Green Ginger...
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‘ALL THIS FIZZING INSIDE’: WATCHING THE RETURN OF DOCTOR WHO by Ivan Phillips
About 20 minutes into ‘The Woman Who Fell to Earth’, the probationary PC Yasmin Khan (Mandip Gill)...
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ONE OF THE GANG OR STAR OF THE SHOW? by James Chapman
I’ll start this piece with a confession: that in recent years I’ve fallen slightly out of love...
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WATCHING THE NEW DOCTOR DOWN UNDER – WORTH GETTING UP FOR by Liz Giuffre
For a long time The Doctor’s Aussie fans had to wait longer than their UK counterparts for new...
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AN ADVENTURE IN REPRESENTATION: DOCTOR WHO AND “THE WOMAN WHO FELL TO EARTH” by Lorna Jowett
Jodie Whittaker’s debut as the thirteenth Doctor seems to have been a success. Among many others,...
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THE WOMAN WHO FELL TO EARTH …OR, THE MEN WHO WANTED TO ASCEND by Matt Hills
Disclaimer: A different version of this blog appeared in The Conversation There’s a freshness of...
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Call for chapters: Moments in Television: Complexity/Simplicity ; Epic/Everyday ; Sound/Image ; Substance/Style. Deadline: Nov 19, 2018.
Call for chapter proposals Moments in Television: Complexity/Simplicity ; Epic/Everyday ;...
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CfP: Edited collection on Gender in Early Twenty-First Century Television. Deadline: Nov 15, 2018.
The “quality” and “post-quality” television moments of the early twenty-first century have...
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CfP: “British Women Documentary Filmmakers 1930-1955” symposium. April 5, 2019 @ London School of Economics (UK). Deadline: Nov 1, 2018.
Proposals are invited for a one-day symposium to be held at the London School of Economics on 5th...
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