Category: Comedy
THE FOXTROT OF COMEDY DRAMA – SLOW, SLOW, QUICK, QUICK, SLOW – DON’T FORGET THE DRIVER by Tom Nicholls
How to write about a television programme that you love and that has even moved you to tears? Many...
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IN DEFENCE OF CHEAP, CHEAP, CHEAP: THE PROBLEMATIC NATURE OF WORKING CLASS NOSTALGIA by Ross Garner
N.B. Before reading this blog it is worth stating that my cultish sensibilities frequently draw me...
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COMFORT TELLY 2: COLD FEET, THE CASE OF THE COMFORTING RESURRECTION by Tom Nicholls
Some of you may have read my previous blog on Comfort Telly, where I pondered if in the end the...
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“I WILL BE YOUR TREASURE, I’M WAITING FOR YOU”: THE PLEASURES OF DETECTORISTS by Phil Wickham
At the end of the year BBC4 will be screening the third and final series of Detectorists...
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CfP: The CW Network. Deadline: Aug 1, 2017
The CW network offers a compelling coming of age story reflective of its changing demographic. In...
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VIEWER REVERTIGO by Jamila Baluch
Reruns of television series have long been an integral part of the television market. Even though...
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ODE TO ADAM AND JOE by Richard Hewett
A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, Friday nights were (all too briefly) enlivened by a...
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WHEN TWO BECOMES ONE by Richard Hewett
As this goes to press (can we say that about online materials?), series four of Line of...
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THE NIGHTLY SHOW: WHO’S WATCHING? by Lyndsay Duthie
It was a bold scheduling move on the part of ITV, the UK’s main commercial television channel....
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WHERE HAVE ALL THE WRINKLES GONE? by Jamila Baluch
Contemporary media culture seems to suggest that it is unacceptable for a woman to look her age if...
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TEACHING GENRE USING NETFLIX by Jennifer O’Meara
Although Netflix’s approach to genre is different to those predominant in screen studies, the...
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The wonderful world of the (Australian) web series by Sue Turnbull
Here’s the pitch. Game of Thrones meets Mad Max in a post-apocalyptic wilderness somewhere North...
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