One of the great pleasures and challenges of conference organisation is putting interesting and complimentary panels together from the abstracts you receive. Planning that you put into this always pays off in the end, looking at each proposal from several different perspectives, working out the different ways that it could fit in with other papers.

A few days ago the Greek public opinion received a huge shock after the Hellenic Police solved the particularly heinous crime that was hidden behind the disappearance of a 4-year-old girl from Bulgaria, who lived with her mother in Athens, Greece. The Hellenic Police Authority informed the public about the arrest of two Bulgarian citizens living in Greece in connection with the murder of their 4-year-old daughter Anny.

Remembering television drama: ‘Television Drama: the Forgotten, the Lost and the Neglected’ Conference, April, 2015 ** **Despite the tendency in television studies to emphasise the contemporary, British television studies has recently seen a number of AHRC-supported projects which have been exploring

In April 2013 I walked the Pennine Way – a 268-mile trek from Edale in Derbyshire up the spine of England and into Kirk Yetholm in Scotland. Almost exactly two years later, on 24 ^th April 2015 the Pennine Way reached its 50 ^th anniversary as the first national trail in the UK. To celebrate, the BBC produced a four-part series about the trail hosted by Paul Rose.

So far in our blog strand, we have been looking at moments of performance that are quite noticeably (if not obviously) about performance in some way, where the actor demonstrates an impressive level of skill via their use of their own body (Robert Lindsay’s twitch in G.B.H. (Channel 4, 1991)) or an unusual prop (Charles Dance’s skinning of a deer stag in Game of Thrones (HBO, 2011-present)). Today, we wish to pay

One of the challenges of returning to my parents’ for the weekend (as I write, the bank holiday is looming) is the inevitable evening trawl for something watchable on television via such channels as Drama or ITV3.

I’m in the grip of politics fever. I can hardly concentrate; I want to know what is happening. Less than one week to go to the general election in the UK, and the two main political parties are neck and neck.

Last week I spent three wonderful and intellectually stimulating days at the Forgotten Television Drama conference;

The promenade at Scarborough. A ghostly and malevolent female figure appears by the seafront, cloaked in a sari. The apparition of mysterious brine accompanies her presence and the art-deco seafront is covered in mysterious shells.

I’m in the grip of politics fever. I can hardly concentrate; I want to know what is happening. Less than one week to go to the general election in the UK, and the two main political parties are neck and neck.

So, the other night, I spent somewhere in the neighborhood of half an hour just channel surfing—not watching anything in particular, just scrolling through the channel guide.  If I actually surfed and had been surfing out on a beach somewhere, I might have just been getting started at that point.