Thinking about the effects of neoliberalism on television, I’ve recently had reason to re-visit some of the programmes I looked at  when I was working on a book about the 1980s. In particular I remembered a fascinating series transmitted across May and June in 1990 called The Television Village . In it residents of a village in Lancashire were given a glimpse of the television future: the future we now inhabit.

I’ve spent the last five months back in the US, thanks to a generous fellowship in Latin American Studies at Tulane in New Orleans.

The editor seeks scholarly essays that address some aspect of HBO’s television series *The Leftovers (2014-2017) and/or its source text, Tom Perrotta’s novel of the same title (2011) . *Perrotta co-produced the series with show runner David Lindelof ( Lost ). Both novel and series are set three years after the “Sudden Departure” of 2% of the world’s population.

Hosted by Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Organised by Monash University and the University of Warwick with funding provided by the Monash Warwick Alliance (Un)Ethical Futures is a two-day interdisciplinary conference exploring the ethical concerns of utopia, dystopia and science fiction.

The recent furor about Oskar Eustis’ open air production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in New York City in which Caesar was dressed up to look like Donald Trump and Calpurnia had a Slavic accent started me thinking about the larger issue of imaginatively representing the current occupant of the White House.

Switching channels. Yesterday’s television theory– today. This year, television scholars celebrate the 30th anniversary of John Fiske’s seminal work Television Culture. Based on a thorough analysis of television programmes, Fiske uncovered the economic and societal implications of television as a cultural institution.

We are pleased to call for participation in the third “Italian Way to Pop” one-day symposium, to be held October 23, 2017 at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.

The CW network offers a compelling coming of age story reflective of its changing demographic. In 2006, the network was launched as a joint venture of CBS and Warner Bros. Entertainment and next generation to The WB and UPN (1995-2006), which followed Fox’s success and shift in television broadcasting away from the Big Three (ABC, CBS, and NBC) and toward young viewers.

The newly founded feminist and LGBTQIA+ journal Mai is seeking contributions to its special edition, which revolves around ‘Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Sex in Contemporary Film and TV’. /Mai/ is a new journal founded and edited by Anna Backman Rogers (Senior Lecturer in Feminist Philosophy and Visual Culture, University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and is named after the Swedish feminist filmmaker Mai Zetterling.

The Melodrama Research Group presents: At home with horror? Terror on the small screen 27 ^th -28 ^th October 2017, University of Kent Keynote speaker: Dr Helen Wheatley (University of Warwick)

ITV recently broadcast Goodbye Granadaland , a 90 minute valedictory celebration of the output of Granada’s studios in central Manchester ahead of its forthcoming relocation to the nearby Salford Media City complex.