Category: Blogs
BBC TV’s Risk-taking Innovations in the 2000s: Comedy for a Changed Nation by Alex Symons
Back in the early 2000s, a new comedy culture emerged within BBC Television as the corporation...
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Holy Legacy, Batman!: How Deadpan Performance Style Outpaced Mid-Century Network Data by Gary Miceli
This blog examines the industrial history and aesthetic mechanics of the 1966 live-action Batman...
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Remake, Remodel, Reject: A Thought Piece on Negative Fan Perceptions of Remakes by JZ Ferguson
Remake: a word that can spark excitement or send a shiver down a fan’s spine. I am in the latter...
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Waffling About?: Invader ZIM by Melissa Beattie
Conspiracy theories on television have a long history, particularly when they focus...
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Give and Take: Creative Freedom and the Fan as Editor by JZ Ferguson
While talking television with Andrew Pixley (always a delight), the conversation touched on how...
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Not So Strange: Stranger Things and TV Finale History by Douglas L. Howard
Okay, I’ll admit it. A few days after the final episode of Stranger Things aired in December, I...
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CSTonline by Kim Akass
I am writing this blog with a heavy heart. After 21 years and 2,000 blogs I have taken the...
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‘If Women Don’t Find You Handsome, They Should At Least Find You Handy’: The Red Green Show, Canadianness and Subversive(?) Masculinities – by Melissa Beattie
In 1991, comedian (and trained engineer) Steve Smith debuted The Red Green Show (CBC, 1991-2006),...
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Diplomatic Risks: Yes, Minister – by Melissa Beattie
Like many academics who find themselves under a word limit, I recently found that there were a few...
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La Vie En Flique? Tropiques Criminels – By Melissa Beattie
An officer in a bit of disrepute arrives on an island which is a French Overseas Territory… No, I...
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Diplomatic Immunity?: Night Court – By Melissa Beattie
As I am certain many of you also do, I find myself revisiting television series that I enjoyed...
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The Immortal (Un?)Beloved by Melissa Beattie
Those of you who have been following my work for awhile may have realised that I have a certain...
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