Tag: Christine Geraghty
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 MoreTHE NIGHT MANAGER AND THE FUTURE OF BBC DRAMA by Christine Geraghty
One of the games played in the run-up to the BBC Charter renewal process (a process which is likely to be particularly brutal this time) is for critics to identify those programmes which can be used by BBC negotiators to put the...
Read MoreFACES AND LANDSCAPES: THE CHANGING LOOK OF TELEVISION DRAMA by Christine Geraghty
Episode 4 of the Icelandic drama Trapped (2015), currently showing on BBC 4, finished with a spectacular avalanche. The avalanche had been predicted by one of the characters who then triggered it in the hope of diverting it away...
Read MoreCHARACTER, NARRATIVE AND SPOILERS IN THE BBC’S DICKENSIAN by Christine Geraghty
Christmas is long gone and some of its televisual pleasures have been explored in the CST blogs by Kenneth Longden (https:///bbc-christmas and https:///sherlock-abominable) and Lorna Jowett (https:///not-so-cosy). But one...
Read MoreLISTENING, LOOKING AND JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS: THE CHANGING METHODS OF THE POLICE DETECTIVE by Christine Geraghty
It was a quiet TV night and New Tricks (2003 – 2015) was coming to an end. In the Cold Case office, the three police detectives, brought out of retirement, and their younger boss were solving the case. They were reporting on the...
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