BBC4 is featuring interviews at the moment, examining this most basic taken-for-granted of TV. They’re doing the inevitable extracts series ; rescreening samples from the archives ; putting up classics on their website ; getting interviewers to interview each other (Mark Lawson does Terry Wogan for instance); and even showing a series by David Frost.
Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries Research Seminars 2011/12 5-6pm, Wednesday 14 March Zen Room, The ATRiuM, 86-88 Adam Street, Cardiff CF24 2FN Dr Lez Cooke (Royal Holloway University of London) – The Forgotten History of British Television Drama Abstract: In recent years there has been a return to an empirically-based television history that seeks […]
Dateline: the “What is Television?” event in Portland, Oregon . This marvelous conference is under the benign and brilliant direction of Janet Wasko , a trusted leader in the field. On this opening morning, I’m sitting between Dan Schiller and Sarah Berry . Dan got us all moving last night with a stellar presentation on the digital depression.
With business seemingly everywhere on television, from the risks of the retail and restaurant trade to pitching for investment or competing to become the next ‘apprentice’, ***The Television Entrepreneurs ***draws upon popular business-oriented shows such as The Apprentice and Dragons’ Den to explore the relationship between television and business.
So My Big, Fat, Gypsy Wedding is under attack for being racist? This week’s outcry over Channel 4’s advertising campaign smacks of a certain hypocrisy and no small amount of double-dealing in my eyes. Accused of stereotyping gypsies as it pulls in the channel’s highest ratings this year, complaints over Channel 4’s poster campaign has reached a crescendo with billboards being defaced all over Leeds.
I first saw Melancholia (von Trier, 2011) on my TV during the day while home alone. A few weeks later I saw it again at the cinema with friends. It’s a film about two sisters Justine (Kirsten Dunst) a chronic depressive, and Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) a rich bourgeois housewife, and their experience of the end of the world.
I watched Inspector Montalbano on Sunday evening. Thank goodness I didn’t stay in on Saturday evening to watch Borgen’s replacement. Sam Wollaston’s Sunday morning review promised much, according to him ‘It looks gorgeous’ – really? In a seventies B film kind of way maybe. The drained colour, tinny music and sweeping helicopter shots over Ragusa reminded me of crime dramas from my youth. And not in a good way.
According to Dr. Janet McCabe (Birkbeck) and Dr. Deborah Jermyn (Roehampton), co-organisers of Friday’s Age Spots and Spotlights one-day research symposium: ‘ We live in a culture where youth is revered and envied, while ageing remains feared, even repugnant .’ One thing is clear, living your life in the glare of the media may bring its rewards, but once the glow of youth begins to fade, living those autumn years under the
I have, both on this blog and elsewhere, moaned long and hard about the evil TV snatcher Rupert Murdoch. Like The Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Murdoch dresses up his new channel, Sky Atlantic, as a glossy and shiny treat that will give TV viewers the shows that we would otherwise be denied.
Remember when ITV’s new flagship current affairs programme Exposure (26 September 2011, 22.35) was itself exposed for using videogame footage, claiming it showed IRA members trying to shoot down a British army helicopter in 1988?
http://www.fox.com/alcatraz/ takes you to Alcatraz, a new series that began on Gringo TV last month.