Category: Blogs
Mocking Up History: Philomena Cunk on…Everything by Melissa Beattie
In a previous academic life, I was trained as an historian and archaeologist, particularly...
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DEFENDING THE WAC: MARK LEWISOHN LOOKS AT WHY RENEWED APPRECIATION IS URGENTLY REQUIRED
I was asked to write an op-ed piece saying why I think the BBC’s Written Archives Centre (WAC) is...
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Sexual Violence in Rivals: Updating the Bonkbuster for a post-#MeToo Television Audience: PART TWO – by Julie Anne Taddeo
This article was first published on WFTHN on the 17th October 2025. Warning: This article is...
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Defending the WAC: All the things I haven’t (yet) written by Helen Wheatley
People following the last few weeks of the Critical Studies in Television blog will have seen my...
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DEFENDING THE WAC: RECOVERING THE INVISIBLE WOMEN OF THE BBC by Kate Murphy
My first visit to the BBC’s Written Archives Centre was in 2002. I was working as a producer on...
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TV WITH AN INTERNATIONAL DIFFERENCE by Kim Akass
Those of you that have been reading CSTonline for a while will know that I have been in the USA...
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MARION REIMERS, TV SPORTS STAR REPORTER by Toby Miller
Around the world, sports journalism is dominated by men. In 2018, Sky Sports in Britain recognized...
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DEFENDING THE WAC: EXPLORING INDIAN CINEMA BROADCAST ON BRITISH ANALOGUE TELEVISION AT THE BBC WRITTEN ARCHIVES CENTRE by Dipali Das
In August 2022, I secured a slot at the BBC Written Archives Centre (WAC) in Caversham to look at...
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JUST (SOME OF) THE FACTS, PLEASE: IN SUPPORT OF ACCURACY IN TELEVISION by JZ Ferguson
Imagine, if you will, the following scene playing out on a television screen: A trial is underway...
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‘DON’T SCRATCH MY SOCA’: DESMOND’S AND MUSIC by Melissa Beattie
In a book chapter I recently had published (Beattie 2025) I discuss how seminal British sitcom...
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SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN RIVALS: UPDATING THE BONKBUSTER FOR A POST-#METOO TELEVISION AUDIENCE: PART ONE by Julie Anne Taddeo
Warning: This article is divided into two parts but both have detailed descriptions of sexual...
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JESSE WATTERS AND THE NEVER-ENDING CRISIS OF MASCULINITY by Andrew J. Salvati
This past March, Fox News personality Jesse Watters, who first came to fame as the pundit Bill...
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