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.

Whether an actor playing a role or a contributor representing themselves, no one simply walks onto the television – they are cast. For television drama, the decision is usually made by formal audition, attended by selected actors.

In the second part of this interview with television producer Tom Edwards, the focus shifts from earlier production experiences to Tom’s role as a Commissioning Executive Producer for BBC1&2 Factual Features and Formats.

CALL FOR PAPERS: TRANSITIONS 8 –new directions in comics studies 2018 BIRKBECK COLLEGE LONDON Saturday 10th November 2018   After a year’s hiatus we are delighted to announce this call for papers for the interdisciplinary Transitions 2018 symposium.

Back to the Future: Telling and Taming Anticipatory Media Visions and Technologies Special Issue of “Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies” Guest-editors: Christian Pentzold (University of Bremen, Germany), Anne Kaun (Södertörn University, Sweden), and Christine Lohmeier (University of Bremen, Germany) Digital media, networked services, and aggregate data are

Call for Chapters: ‘This Country: UK comedy cultures’ Extended deadline: 20 ^th August 2018.

University College Cork, 24 November 2018 From the earliest moments of its existence, the optimistic dream of America has been underpinned by a much darker sense of anxiety and paranoia.

Tom Edwards has worked for over twenty years in the British television industry, specialising in popular factual and factual entertainment formats.

Call for papers for free one day conference: Understanding the social in a digital age: An interdisciplinary conference on media, technology, and the social The pervasiveness of social media has led to both the rise and erasure of ‘the social’. The social is increasingly evasive, at once found everywhere and nowhere.

This workshop call for papers invites presentation proposals pertaining to any aspect(s) of queerness in contemporary television during the period from 2000 to the present. Topics pertaining to cultural and/or television studies at the intersection of gender/sexuality studies and/or queer theory are invited from scholars, educators, and students of various levels and disciplines.

Call for papers for collected volume Short Circuit: Brevity and the short form in serial television As critics, creators and academics alike herald the new “Golden Age” of television, the accent has increasingly been placed on the excess inherent in the form, the temptation to “binge-watch” a single fiction over several hours, or the proliferation of narratives and storylines in American television’s “endless present” (which, unlike its British