Tag: Elke Weissmann
DO YOU SECRETLY LOVE BRADLEY WALSH? DON’T WORRY. Y...
Posted by CSTonline | Dec 16, 2016 | Audience, Blogs, Comedy, Commercial TV, ECREA, Game Shows, Performance, UK TV | 0
EUROPEAN CULTURES OF TELEVISION STUDIES (1): TO BE CONTINUED… by Elke Weissmann
Feb 23, 2018 | Blogs, ECREA, Teaching, Transnational TV | 0
It all started with Traumschiff (ZDF, since 1981). Traumschiff is the German version of Love Boat...
Read MoreTHE COPING WORKING-CLASS: RECENT BRITISH REAL CRIME DRAMAS AND WORKING-CLASS WOMEN by Elke Weissmann
It is the end of May, and we are coming to the end, I assume, of the high-budget, ‘quality’,...
Read MoreROOTS (HISTORY, 2016) VERSUS ROOTS (ABC, 1977) by Elke Weissmann
I finally got around to watching the new version of Roots (if you haven’t seen it yet, episodes...
Read MoreTHE RETURN OF MARX? ARE WE REALLY THERE YET? by Elke Weissmann
A while ago, Martin Barker invited scholars to discuss the potential for the re-incorporation of...
Read MoreDO YOU SECRETLY LOVE BRADLEY WALSH? DON’T WORRY. YOU ARE IN GOOD COMPANY BY ELKE WEISSMANN
Dec 16, 2016 | Audience, Blogs, Comedy, Commercial TV, ECREA, Game Shows, Performance, UK TV | 0
We were working with our first year students on pitches for programme ideas, when I noticed...
Read MoreWHY BRITISH QUALITY DRAMA FRUSTRATES ME NO END (AND DON’T GET ME STARTED ON THE US STUFF) by Elke Weissmann
I am currently suffering from a massive dilemma. The last episode of Undercover (BBC, 2016) is...
Read MoreRESTRICT THE AIRWAVES, CUT THE INTERNET: OR WHY WE NEED THE RETURN OF BROADCASTING by Elke Weissmann
May 12, 2016 | Blogs, Box sets / DVD, Drama, ECREA, Social media, Teaching, UK TV | 0
There’s been quite a bit of trending lately on Facebook about saving the BBC. I’ve done my fair...
Read MoreWILL WOMEN EVER HAVE THE LAST LAUGH? TRACEY ULLMAN VERSUS VIOLENT CRIME by Elke Weissmann
Sometimes, things coincide to throw a particular interesting light on an issue that needs raising....
Read MorePROBLEMS WITH QUALITY by Elke Weissmann
Dec 10, 2015 | Blogs, Commercial TV, ECREA, Genres, Quality TV, Transnational TV, UK TV, US TV | 0
In 1990, Charlotte Brunsdon wrote an article entitled ‘Problems with Quality’. It examined British...
Read MoreTEACHING TELEVISION: WHERE DO I START? by Elke Weissmann
As the UK moves closer to the end of its annual academic teaching period and we are becoming reflective and perhaps also a bit optimistic about the future, I am struck by one big question: what does it mean to teach television...
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