Category: Costume/Historical Drama
MISSING IN ACTION: RECALLING ‘A FAMILY AT WAR’ (GR...
Posted by CSTonline | Jun 23, 2017 | Blogs, Costume/Historical Drama, production, Transnational TV, UK TV | 6
THE CROWN FAILS TO TAKE THE CROWN AT BAFTAS by Lyn...
Posted by CSTonline | May 17, 2017 | BBC, Blogs, Costume/Historical Drama, Crime, Genres, Netflix, Public Service Broadcasting | 0
TABOO: TRANSITION, TESTOSTERONE, AND THE TRANSCEND...
Posted by CSTonline | May 8, 2017 | BBC, Blogs, Costume/Historical Drama, Drama, Public Service Broadcasting, UK TV | 0
SKY DIVING: THE END OF ADVENTUROUS COMMISSIONING A...
Posted by CSTonline | Feb 17, 2017 | Blogs, Box sets / DVD, Costume/Historical Drama, Drama, Game Shows, HBO, Netflix, Quality TV, Streaming | 0
‘TAKE FOUR GIRLS’… AND DIVERSIFY THEM: THE EVOLVING INTERSECTIONALITY OF CALL THE MIDWIFE by Hannah Hamad
Jan 5, 2018 | BBC, Blogs, Costume/Historical Drama, Medical Drama, Quality TV, UK TV | 0
The first month of the new year, as has been the case now since 2012, heralds the start of another...
Read MoreMISSING IN ACTION: RECALLING ‘A FAMILY AT WAR’ (GRANADA, 1970-72) by Melanie Williams
Jun 23, 2017 | Blogs, Costume/Historical Drama, production, Transnational TV, UK TV | 6
ITV recently broadcast Goodbye Granadaland, a 90 minute valedictory celebration of the output of...
Read MoreTHE CROWN FAILS TO TAKE THE CROWN AT BAFTAS by Lyndsay Duthie
May 17, 2017 | BBC, Blogs, Costume/Historical Drama, Crime, Genres, Netflix, Public Service Broadcasting | 0
The big question of this year’s BAFTAs was how many awards Netflix would romp home with. Most of...
Read MoreTABOO: TRANSITION, TESTOSTERONE, AND THE TRANSCENDENTAL by Kenneth Longden
May 8, 2017 | BBC, Blogs, Costume/Historical Drama, Drama, Public Service Broadcasting, UK TV | 0
In a recent Sight and Sound article (March 3 2017) Nick James made an interesting observation...
Read MoreCFP: Game of Thrones – An International Conference, 6-8 September 2017, University of Hertfordshire
Mar 23, 2017 | CFPs, CFPs conferences, Conferences/events, Costume/Historical Drama, Diary, Drama, Quality TV, US TV | 0
6-8 September 2017 University of Hertfordshire, School of Creative Arts, College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB Deadline for proposals EXTENDED: 18 April 2017 Conference email: GOTconf2017@herts.ac.uk Keynote Speakers:...
Read MoreROOTS (HISTORY, 2016) VERSUS ROOTS (ABC, 1977) by Elke Weissmann
I finally got around to watching the new version of Roots (if you haven’t seen it yet, episodes...
Read MoreSKY DIVING: THE END OF ADVENTUROUS COMMISSIONING AT OSTERLEY by John Ellis
Feb 17, 2017 | Blogs, Box sets / DVD, Costume/Historical Drama, Drama, Game Shows, HBO, Netflix, Quality TV, Streaming | 0
Big changes are taking place at Sky, even before the much anticipated buyout of non-Murdoch...
Read MoreGHOST NATION BY KENNETH LONGDEN
Dec 16, 2016 | Blogs, Costume/Historical Drama, Cult TV/Sci Fi/Horror, Drama, Quality TV, US TV | 0
The killing of Osama Bin Laden by American special forces may have rid the collective American...
Read MoreCAN YOU TURN IT UP A BIT?: HEARING DIALOGUE IN MODERN TV DRAMA by Christine Geraghty
Jun 29, 2016 | Blogs, Costume/Historical Drama, Drama, Quality TV | 0
Television often has subtitles in my household and not just when we are watching Euro-dramas on BBC4. I hadn’t given much thought to this until I read an excellent article on the topic by Maggie Brown in the Royal Television...
Read MoreOLD FORMATS DIE HARD by Richard Hewett
Jun 16, 2016 | Blogs, Comedy, Costume/Historical Drama, UK TV | 0
I like old things. When I was a teenager my granddad entrusted me with my great grandfather’s fob watch, and it always gave me a thrill to think that I was holding something of (it seemed at the time) inestimable age. It was...
Read MoreBURNING THE DRESS: THE AMBIVALENCE OF OUTLANDER’S PERIOD COSTUMES by Josette Wolthuis
Apr 28, 2016 | Blogs, Costume/Historical Drama, Drama, Funded Projects, Streaming, US TV | 0
The weeks surrounding the launch of the second season of the STARZ drama series Outlander – broadcast in the US on 9 April and released to Amazon Prime UK the day after – saw a spate of online journalism and fans swooning over...
Read MoreARE WE DISAFFECTED WITH POLITICS OR OBSESSED WITH POLITICS? IT DEPENDS WHERE YOU LOOK ON TV by John Ellis
Apr 14, 2016 | BBC, Blogs, Costume/Historical Drama, News, Politics, Public Service Broadcasting | 0
Two things have made me think about the role of television in the current wave of disaffection from politics. One was a satirical song from Mitch Benn on a recent Radio 4 Now Show with the refrain “I don’t want to see the news...
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