Tag: Doctor Who
THE WOMAN WHO FELL TO EARTH …OR, THE MEN WHO WANTED TO ASCEND by Matt Hills
Disclaimer: A different version of this blog appeared in The Conversation There’s a freshness of...
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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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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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“FUCK YOU SANTA”: CHRISTMAS TELEVISION – A RECKONING by Kenneth Longden
Two years ago, CST kindly posted my piece on Christmas television and ‘BBC Christmas Specials’....
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The Uncanny Brand: Architectural Dissonance and Genre Discourses in the Marketing of Horror by Ross Garner
Since debuting on the UK’s digital terrestrial television service Freeview in March 2015, I have...
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RECONSTRUCTING THE ERRORS FROM TELEVISION HISTORY by Marcus Harmes
A ‘Billy Fluff’ is a moment in Doctor Who from 1963 to 1966 when William Hartnell, the lead actor...
Read MoreNOT SO BRAVE? HUXLEY AND WHO by Marcus Harmes
Since 2015 various news outlets have been reporting plans for Steven Spielberg to create a new television adaptation of the 1932 novel Brave New World and since 2013 a film adaptation by Ridley Scott has been in the pipeline....
Read MoreSTORYWORLDS, TRANSFICTION, AND TV HISTORIES: SHERLOCK, AND THE ABOMINABLE BRIDE by Kenneth Longden
Long before the end of Christmas television viewing and schedules, broadcasters and production companies herald their new season of television viewing. It is part of that tradition where we say goodbye to the old year, and...
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BBC CHRISTMAS SPECIALS, DOCTOR WHO AND SHERLOCK: SELF-EXOTICISM #2 by Kenneth Longden
The Christmas television schedules have, for many years, introduced a sense of the Carnavalesque...
Read MoreCROSSING ALL OF TIME, SPACE AND SOUNDSCAPES – THE DOCTOR BREAKS THE DIEGETIC SOUND BARRIER by Liz Giuffre
Doctor Who fans were perhaps expecting a slow 2015. As Steven Moffat said himself in a recent interview with The Radio Times, “This year is not a new Doctor year, it’s not an anniversary, or a new companion year … it’s dangerous...
Read MoreDOCTOR WHO AND THE BBC’S REMIT FOR EDUCATION AND INFORMATION by Carl Wilson
With recent debates and discussions surrounding the government’s Green Paper and the BBC’s Charter review (how the BBC should be funded; whether it distorts the market; if it should be self-regulated; and so on.) I have found it...
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