Dear Mx Leeds and Mx Harvard, I feel it only right to send this apology to you over the fact that previously on this blog I got a bit – um – disrespectful concerning the example given online of how to cite a television broadcast, i.e.: Desperate housewives, Episode 16, Crime doesn’t pay . 2009.

Journal: The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture Special Issue: Nostalgia and Popular Culture

Date of pre-conference: 2 October 2020 Call for papers deadline: 15 May 2020 Notificiation: 1 June 2020 Organisers: João Carlos Correia, University of Beira Interior  (jcorreia@ubi.pt) Pedro Jerónimo, University of Beira Interior

Edited by Stuart Price and Ben Harbisher Media Discourse Centre, De Montfort University, UK (Early Publication Date tbc – needless to say, we seek polished, well-referenced material that will help us meet our editorial deadlines – method of referencing will be Harvard, blended with our ‘house style’) Overview of CfC and suggested topics The Media […]

You find yourself amidst the worst public health crisis for a generation. The muddled thinking at the heart of government is not engendering confidence. The spectre of mass deaths and possible chaos in an under-funded health service hangs over ministerial indecision. Politics has become laughable. Comedy has become political. Great satire troubles the comfortable and consoles the afflicted.

The Covid-19 lockdown means that there’s a lot more TV viewing going on. Those TV scholars who are obsessed with Netflix and binge-watching will be missing the resurgence of broadcast TV. In Easter week, 6-12 April, “viewing to BARB measured TV grew by 23% in all time, 34% in daytime and 12% in 7pm-10.30pm peak, compared with the same, non-Easter week in 2019” according to Broadcast magazine.

The television scholar Alan McKee once asked the rhetorical question ‘is Doctor Who Australian?’, a question he immediately pondered may be a stupid one as everything about the program (cast, writers, place of production, as well as many themes) were so emphatically British. The question though, is a perfectly sensible one, and was meant in terms of audience, reception, and impact.

Look, there’s something really good I want to tell you, but I don’t quite know how I need to express it in an academic manner.

Issue editors: Gwénaëlle Le Gras (Bordeaux Montaigne) and Jules Sandeau (Paul Valéry Montpellier 3) inquiries: gwenlegras@wanadoo.fr and sandeau.jules@gmail.com The open-access and peer-reviewed online French journal Genre en séries: cinéma, télévision, médias is devoted to the study of gender representations in film, television and other visual media.

Discussions of race have been central to television studies in the United States for decades.