Tag: BBC
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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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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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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“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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‘HEAD OF DISTINCTIVITY’ NEEDED by Pat Holland
Thank goodness for W1A (2014-17), the now defunct satire on life at New Broadcasting House first...
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YOUR FAVORITE OLD BBC SHOWS FOR FREE? by John Ellis
How should the BBC make its huge archive public? This is the challenge that faces Peter Rippon,...
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RINGS AROUND LONDON: TELEVISION IN 1946 by Jonathan Bignell
British television re-started after the Second World War on 7 June 1946, with programmes that...
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WHAT USE IS A GENDERED AUDIENCE?: INSTITUTIONAL CLASSIFICATION THEN AND NOW by Sarah Arnold
Viewer classification has been central to audience research and measurement since the early years...
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A CRISIS IN BBC DRAMA? OR WHY I STOPPED WORRYING AND LOVED REALITY TV BY Elke Weissmann
Have you been watching Doctor Foster? Or Rellik? Or Strike? No? Me neither. Doctor Foster...
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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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