Category: News
SKY HIGH… BUT FOR HOW LONG? by John Ellis
It’s all happening around Sky at the moment. The first was an unexpected bid from the US giant...
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HOLLYWOOD APOCALYPSE by Gary R Edgerton
Steal a little and they throw you in jail, Steal a lot and they make you king. — Bob Dylan,...
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MORE FEMALE EXECUTIVES WOULD STEM THE SEXIST ROT IN HOLLYWOOD by Lyndsay Duthie
Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood producer with 300 Oscar nominations, has fallen. After The New...
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LIVE FROM FACEBOOK… AND THE BBC… AND THE USERS: VIDEO STREAMING AND AUTHORSHIP by Sarah Arnold
On May 30thTwitter and the BBC announced a live streaming partnership to provide coverage for a...
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WATCHING GRENFELL TOWER BURNING FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD by Liz Giuffre
The horror that the residents, firefighters and loved ones experienced as London’s Grenfell Tower...
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A DEAD RECKONING FOR FOX NEWS by Gary R. Edgerton
Television and I grew up together. — Roger Ailes, 1995 (13) Among the sheer glut of head-spinning...
Read MoreSpecial issue on Television Formats in IJDT
The International Journal of Digital Television has published a special issue on Television Formats.
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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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WERE TELEVISION COMEDIANS TO BLAME FOR TRUMP’S ELECTION? by Liz Giuffre
When comedian Jimmy Fallon ruffled Donald Trump’s hair during an interview on The Tonight Show in...
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“ISN’T IT FUNNY”: NOW WE CAN LAUGH AT BREXIT by Sarah Arnold
It’s been over a month since the monumental shock that was Brexit as well as its immediate and...
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KEN LOACH, THE PRESS AND THE BBC by Christine Geraghty
Ken Loach is surely the patron saint of British film and television studies – venerated for his...
Read MoreARE WE DISAFFECTED WITH POLITICS OR OBSESSED WITH POLITICS? IT DEPENDS WHERE YOU LOOK ON TV by John Ellis
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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