Category: UK TV
MY SUMMER OF LOVE…..ISLAND by Nektaria McWilliams
The Royal Wedding kick-started, but by no means overshadowed the long, hot, English summer of...
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WHY LOVE ISLAND IS THE BEST KEPT GUILTY SECRET ON BRITISH TELEVISION by Lyndsay Duthie
This article was originally published on The Conversation on 4 June 2018. As is so often...
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HAROLD PINTER: TV HISTORIES AND LEGACIES by Jonathan Bignell
Harold Pinter died ten years ago, and the anniversary is being recognised this summer by a season...
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THE BBC GENDER PROBLEM: A CENTURY IN THE MAKING by Sarah Arnold
Last year I had the opportunity to spend time researching the women involved in the development of...
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DECANTING VINTAGE BERGERAC by Richard Hewett
When that estimable curator of classic British television, the Drama channel, began repeating...
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‘IS THE FUTURE GOING TO BE ALL GIRL?’ DOCTOR WHO AND THE FRUSTRATIONS OF A FEMINIST by Lorna Jowett
As someone who was fairly vocal about the need for long-running BBC flagship series Doctor Who to...
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GRONDA GRONDA! ‘PLAYING’ THE ADVENTURE GAME by Richard Hewett
I was talking to my colleague Robin Ellis the other day (not the Robin Ellis who used to be in...
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A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO FAIL? KAY MELLOR’S GIRLFRIENDS (2018) by Christine Geraghty
Maybe it’s a sign of true equality in television when a woman writer gets a truly terrible drama...
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University of Westminster SSH Professorial Lecture: ‘Doctor Who – A British Alien?’
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities Professorial Lecture: Doctor Who: A British Alien?...
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MAPPING TELEVISION LANDSCAPES by Marcus K Harmes
I have spent much of the last two years in the company of a long dead British actor. In other...
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“YOU ALWAYS SAID YOU WERE AS GOOD AS ANY DOCTOR” – TRUST ME: A POST MID-STAFFS NURSES’ REVENGE FANTASY by Hannah Hamad
2017 was something of an eventful year for British actor Jodie Whittaker. When the BBC announced...
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‘TAKE FOUR GIRLS’… AND DIVERSIFY THEM: THE EVOLVING INTERSECTIONALITY OF CALL THE MIDWIFE by Hannah Hamad
The first month of the new year, as has been the case now since 2012, heralds the start of another...
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