Category: Cable
The CW, Legitimate Television, and Gendering by Bä...
Posted by CSTonline | Dec 8, 2016 | Audience, Blogs, Cable, Commercial TV, Drama, ECREA, Hulu, Netflix, Performance, Soap Opera, Streaming, US TV | 0
SKY HIGH… BUT FOR HOW LONG? by John Ellis
Mar 9, 2018 | Amazon, Blogs, Cable, Commercial TV, Netflix, News, Sky TV, Streaming, Transnational TV | 0
It’s all happening around Sky at the moment. The first was an unexpected bid from the US giant...
Read MoreThe CW, Legitimate Television, and Gendering by Bärbel Göbel-Stolz
Dec 8, 2016 | Audience, Blogs, Cable, Commercial TV, Drama, ECREA, Hulu, Netflix, Performance, Soap Opera, Streaming, US TV | 0
“The US network The CW celebrates its ten-year anniversary this year.” That is the opening...
Read MoreWHY CAN’T I FIND ANYTHING TO WATCH ON TV? by John Ellis
Why has the television business made it so hard for its users to find something they want to...
Read MoreAVOIDING DISAPPOINTMENT – JUDGING A TV SHOW BY ITS FINALE by Claire Burdfield
A year ago Elke Weissmann wrote about finding time for television, and discussed that when we actually find that limited time in our day to sit down and watch television, we do not actually watch television. Instead we watch a...
Read MoreFROM CHANGING CHANNELS TO LAUNCHING APPS: OBSERVATIONS ON THE SMART TV MARKET by JP Kelly
Mar 24, 2016 | Blogs, Box sets / DVD, Cable, Commercial TV, Streaming, Technology, UK TV, Youtube | 0
After many happy years basking in its warm, electronic glow, my once-reliable television set recently emitted its final diodes of light. An ominous dark patch in the upper left corner of the screen had been growing larger over...
Read MoreMETICULOUS WORLD-BUILDING IN SPACE: THE EXPANSE, AND THE CURRENT RESURGENCE OF SCIENCE FICTION ON TV by Tobias Steiner
Mar 24, 2016 | Blogs, Cable, Cult TV/Sci Fi/Horror, ECREA | 0
It’s been one of those days. The Christmas holidays had been lurking around the corner, and...
Read MoreA MAD MEN POTPOURRI by Gary Edgerton
Mar 17, 2016 | Blogs, Box sets / DVD, Cable, Conferences/events, Quality TV, US TV | 0
Mad Men [is] arguably the dominant TV drama of its time. — Time critic James Poniewozik, 24 June...
Read MoreWHAT ACTORS DO: ADAM DRIVER IN GIRLS by Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox
Jan 7, 2016 | Blogs, Cable, Comedy, Performance, Quality TV, Sadcom, US TV | 0
Graduating from the Juilliard School as recently as 2009, Adam Driver is currently experiencing a...
Read MoreDÉJÀ VIEW: REMAKES, REBOOTS, AND THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION by Doug Howard
So here’s a list of show titles for you: The X-Files, Twin Peaks, Prison Break, The A-Team, Hart to Hart, Gilmore Girls, Star Trek, Full House, and Magyver. Looking at it, you might think that this was a catalog of DVD box sets...
Read MorePARENT INVASION: DADS AND THE MILLERS – TWO NEW INTERGENERATIONAL SITCOMS PART 1 by Jamila Baluch
At a time when a growing number of older persons in the United States are living with their adult children (between 2000 and 2011, this figure rose from 2.2 million to 4.6 million[1]), the U.S. broadcast networks Fox and CBS...
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