Tag: Richard Hewett
DECANTING VINTAGE BERGERAC by Richard Hewett
When that estimable curator of classic British television, the Drama channel, began repeating...
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ADVENTURES IN ACADEMIC PUBLISHING: IF YOU ONLY READ ONE BOOK THIS YEAR… by Richard Hewett
… don’t worry; you’re still doing better than most modern undergraduates. Welcome back everyone –...
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I WAS JONATHAN CREEK’S DOUBLE: MY SECRET LIFE AS A PRACTITIONER by Richard Hewett
It’s that time of year again. Marks have all been ratified, and the students have packed their...
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SHUTTING UP SHOP: BYE-BYE, BBC STORE by Richard Hewett
I said it wouldn’t work, didn’t I? Yes, friends, after less than two years in operation, the BBC...
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ODE TO ADAM AND JOE by Richard Hewett
A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, Friday nights were (all too briefly) enlivened by a...
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WHEN TWO BECOMES ONE by Richard Hewett
As this goes to press (can we say that about online materials?), series four of Line of...
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AN ANIMATED DISCUSSION OF CANONICITY by Richard Hewett
Canon: A collection or list of sacred books accepted as genuine: ‘the biblical canon’; The works...
Read MoreWITH NO APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING… by Richard Hewett
I have a book coming out. You didn’t know? Well, it’s called The Changing Spaces of Television Acting, and it examines how modern UK television performance has changed – and the various contextualising factors underpinning this...
Read MoreMEDIA CITY OF DREAMS-UK by Richard Hewett
It’s been over a year since I took up my post as Lecturer in Media Theory at the University of Salford, so I thought that this week I might say a little something about the gleaming edifice in which I now live and work:...
Read MoreROADS NOT TAKEN by Richard Hewett
Cast your minds back, if you will, to the year 2010, when the BBC was poised to launch a brand new detective on our screens. Dark and tousle-haired, his deductive powers would prove a constant source of amazement to his more...
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MAKING THE UNMISSABLE OWNABLE: ADVENTURES IN THE BBC STORE by Richard Wallace
Although starting its operations as a commercial venture in November 2015, the new online BBC...
Read MoreWHAT’S IN STORE? by Richard Hewett
Providing a certain sense of symmetry, my first blog of the academic year returns to the same theme I examined way back in July, when I looked at options for bringing ‘old’ TV into the digital age. Earlier this month saw the...
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