De Montfort University’s Cinema and Television History Institute is supporting an initiative to identify, safeguard and catalogue the film and TV collections of private collectors, which will be launched at an event at Leicester’s Phoenix Cinema on Sunday 29 ^th October.

19 July – 6 August 2021, Online; hosted by Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK Where to, Television Studies? What directions are there to investigate? What are the themes that are important as the medium morphs and changes? What methodological challenges do these changes pose to Television Studies and what place does television history continue to hold within our discipline?

The Centre for Television Histories (University of Warwick) was established in 2015 with the aim of developing new, innovative, impactful research in the field of television history.

Workshop: 100 Years of Women at the BBC Friday 7 May 2021 1pm – 5.30pm (BST), Online Co-sponsored by Critical Studies in Television and Edge Hill University Institute for Social Responsibility Characterised from early in its life as ‘Auntie’, the BBC itself has been gendered female in the cultural consciousness.

British TV and the Working-Class Homecoming: Stand Up, Nigel Barton/ The Land of Green Ginger “It’s like a tightrope between two worlds… and I’m walking it!”- Nigel Barton Programme Stand Up, Nigel Barton (1965, The Wednesday Play) The Land of Green Ginger (1973, Play For Today) As university fees sit at record highs and the cost of accommodation and living in major university

The amateur boxing match between YouTube stars KSI (UK) and Logan Paul (USA) on August 25 could amass more than 20m views, if previous events are anything to go by. That’s more than watched the finals of the FA Cup, or Wimbledon. This is big news and big business.

The differences in pay received by men and women in broadcasting will be starkly revealed when broadcasters and production companies publish their gender pay data. All companies with over 250 employees must do this by the start of April.

In the UK, a handful of giant corporations control the nation’s TV channels, news outlets, radio stations, search engines and social media platforms. This has given wealthy individuals and organisations huge political and economic power and enabled them to distort the media landscape to suit their interests and personal views.

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities Professorial Lecture: Doctor Who: A British Alien?