Jodie Whittaker’s debut as the thirteenth Doctor seems to have been a success. Among many others, Hannah Mays in the Guardian reported the high viewing figures for the first episode: An average of 8.2m viewers watched Whittaker’s first outing as the Doctor, beating the ratings for political thriller sensation Bodyguard, which attracted 6.7m viewers when it debuted in August.
Disclaimer: A different version of this blog appeared in The Conversation There’s a freshness of purpose to this episode from its very first moments, as a new aspect ratio immediately gives way to remediating YouTube, with Ryan Sinclair (Tosin Cole) vlogging about the “greatest woman” he’s “ever met”. When the Doctor’s gender-shifting has been such a topic of press coverage, it’s an opening that teases the viewer, playing with
Call for chapter proposals Moments in Television: Complexity/Simplicity ; Epic/Everyday ; Sound/Image ; Substance/Style Deadline for chapter proposals 19th November 2018 Part of The Television Series, Manchester University Press Series editors: Jonathan Bignell, Sarah Cardwell, Steven Peacock
The “quality” and “post-quality” television moments of the early twenty-first century have resulted in a number of television shows that engage with gender in interesting ways, some advancing critiques of feminism or post-feminism ( UnReal, The Handmaid’s Tale ), others offering new ways of thinking about genderqueer and transitioning individuals ( Transparent, RuPaul’s Drag Race ), and still others thinking about gender at the
Proposals are invited for a one-day symposium to be held at the London School of Economics on 5 th April 2019. A pdf version of the call for papers can be found here. As the work of filmmakers including Jill Craigie, Kay Mander and Marion Grierson testify, women have played a significant part in the early decades of British documentary and informational filmmaking.
It’s first week of teaching, two and a half weeks after the conference, and an element of the glow still lingers – as so often after a conference, there are moments that still vividly live in my memory.
The Royal Wedding kick-started, but by no means overshadowed the long, hot, English summer of 2018, which was defined not only by its heatwave, but also by some other very vivid and historical moments. Some of these include: VAR (video assistant referee) systems being used for the first time at the FIFA world cup; Angelique Kerber, defeating Serena Williams to become the first German since Steffi Graf in 1996 to win Wimbledon;
Sky TV has been sold to the US giant Comcast, a virtual unknown in the UK market. The Murdoch family has lost out… in power terms, not, of course, in money terms. Rupert Murdoch’s last audacious business move blew up in his face. Here’s the story. He had divorced the New International newspaper business from the Fox media empire after the phone hacking scandals that emerged in 2011.
The Velvet Light Trap is proud to present the CFP for its 85th issue: Bad Objects! The concept of a “bad object” has long been a moving target in media studies. Although the term is rarely defined with any specificity, a “bad object” is typically a text that is used in critical analysis with the implicit or explicit acknowledgement of its perceived violations of “good” taste.
Call for Abstracts: Food and Cooking on Early European Television Food has been part of television from its beginnings.
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.