Nothing else but ‘NADA’? Be it bingeing, the business of streaming or trends in audiovisual storytelling, much of our understanding of video-on-demand cultures builds on research about US-American platforms; particularly Netflix.
Borgen is back – worldwide! While the high-end TV series Borgen: Power & Glory (2022) has been available to Danish viewers since February 2022 on Danish public service broadcaster DR, it was not until 2 June that the new season launched on Netflix worldwide.
When, in years to come, my mind flits back to the 2021/22 academic year, it will not so much be global events (which have, let’s face it, been unremittingly depressing) that I recall. Rather, I will look back on this twelvemonth as a period of departures – and returns.
When it comes to television, my wife and I occasionally like to give series second chances. Just because we felt a show stank on its original airing doesn’t mean that we simply caught it at the wrong time for us with where we were in our lives.
Last month ITV announced that I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here (2002-) would be returning to Australia.
As has been noted by several scholars in recent years, retaining and attracting audiences – especially young audiences – has become of particular importance to public service broadcasters (PSB) around the world due to challenges presented by the current age of abundance marked by fierce competition, convergence culture and digitalization (e.g. Lowe &
Among the most difficult aspects of videographic criticism is getting started.
I recently attended an online course at Aarhus University titled, “Transnational VoD Cultures”. Aimed mainly at PhD researchers, whose research is in some way affected by the transnational nature of streaming platforms and television today, the course made me think about the transnational nature of television in South Africa, where I live.
In the age of Riverdale and Euphoria – both “teen” dramas as much as a rabbit is a lamp – I have found a real teen television gem I would like to introduce you to. Netflix/See Saw’s adaption of Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper graphic novels has blown up across the world.
Introduction In this post, we reflect on our TV Dictionary entries on The Bridge/Bron/Broen (2011-18), which were released at around the same time and made completely independently of each other.
