Very Special Relationships: Spooks by Melissa Beattie
‘I read the CIA Factbook, Christine, written by you. Britain’s entry: ‘slightly smaller than...
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Sexual Violence in Rivals: Updating the Bonkbuster for a post-#MeToo Television Audience: PART TWO – by Julie Anne Taddeo
This article was first published on WFTHN on the 17th October 2025. Warning: This article is...
Read MoreTHESE ANXIOUS TIMES: WHY WATCHING CHINESE PERIOD DRAMA MIGHT (NOT) BE GOOD FOR YOU (AT THE MOMENT) by Elke Weissmann
Last week, Kim Akass blogged about how the US press response to Adolescence (Netflix, 2025) made visible certain blind spots in a culture seemingly unable to identify that a particular kind of masculinity might be a problem....
Read More“FINDING YOUR FIT” WITHIN THE CONFERENCE CONTINUUM by Christopher Pullen
In this blog, I offer an autoethnographical account of what it means for TV scholars to take part in the conference continuum, which I argue is both familiar and strange in every iteration. Whether you are an ardent follower of...
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: SUCCESSION AND (AS?) ROMANTIC COMEDY by Melissa Beattie
(Note: This is the third and final part of a series of linked blogs. Part One can be found here...
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IF ONLY WE WERE HUMAN: THE (USUAL) CONCEPTUALISATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE AS TECHNOLOGY by Elke Weissmann
There are, I believe, in all countries myths that emphasise some places as outliers, as different...
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