Sometimes… just sometimes… you can go back… Oh, I’m not talking here about something as lazy as nostalgia.  We’ve debated the potential dangers of that before – of that attempt to wind time back to a point that you recall as being some idyllic perfect moment.  No, what I’m thinking about here is perspective and experience… and how they form enjoyment.

Working with TikTok daily as part of my PhD project – and being a heavy user myself – I am very aware of the constant changes happening on the app with new trends and memes appearing every week.

OLIVER: Can you imagine? Once upon a time, typewriters were made in Great Britain. NORMA MOODY: Imagine typewriters. Oliver’s Travels: Looking for Aristotle by Alan Plater   Those of you who have read some of my previous pre-Christmas offerings will be aware that one of the things that I associate with this time of year is the prospect of a new television soundtrack.

So, it’s been a bit quiet here of late.[1] I thought I’d do a quick follow up of the rest of the things we’d started watching, not got round to finishing, weren’t enjoying and whatnot or so on. And I need to say that I started writing this a wee while ago and that life got in the way of this. Right what do you need to know about the family?

The sudden loss of Tim Beddows, Managing Director and founder of Network Distributing Limited at the age of only 59 is a terrible, sobering shock that I’m still attempting to process even after a week or more.

Donald Trump’s recent announcement of his intention to seek the Republican nomination for the US presidency in 2024 was a far cry from the spectacle of his first run.

Is there any term in TV Studies more scrutinised, debated, loved and hated than ‘quality TV?’  Probably, but that’s beside the point. One of the many ways in which quality TV acquires cultural capital is by appropriating it from forms that have gone before, which is what I’ll discuss today.

The newest adaption of Anne Rice’s novels, Interview with the Vampire (2022), finished airing its season finale in the US on November 13 ^th . It was the most glorious hour of television I’ve experienced in a long time. With stellar sets, costumes, writing, performances, musical score, and everything in between, I’m on the edge of my seat waiting for the next season. Thankfully, AMC confirmed it is airing next year.

This week is the 100th anniversary of the BBC, and the schedules offer various programmes that celebrate it, picking moments, objects and people from across the institution’s history.

I am writing this towards the end of Week 7, which means that by the time it’s online most of us will be around two-thirds of the way through our first term/semester/trimester/block, and entering the home stretch before that much-needed Yule break. I don’t know about you, but I am really rather relishing the return to face-to-face teaching.