Here you are. Here’s a cracker. One for the teenagers [1]: Fig. 1: “Always loved you as Ritzik on Sergeant Bilko.” This is from The Grinning Man , the New Year 2009 special episode of the comedy-mystery series Jonathan Creek (1997-2016) and it shows the eponymous magic/crime consultant meeting the character who will become his new colleague for his next few cases. And her name is Joey Ross.
‘A shortage of properly trained television workers is creating a serious skills gap and threatening to undermine the future business performance of the entire broadcasting sector’. A quote from a recent ScreenSkills Assessment perhaps? In fact, no. This was Maggie Brown writing in The Guardian in November 2011.
This blog post takes a comparative look at the development of the European streaming market to seek explanations for the diverging patterns in the strength of globally operating VoD services and their local counterparts. To do so, I am drawing on data from the European Audiovisual Observatory as well as the local industry press. A matching infographic presenting key data can be downloaded here.
**Collaborative Creativity in Film and Television ** Edited by Lucy Brown, Rosamund Davies and Funke Oyebanjo Abstract submission deadline: Friday 7 th October 2022 Film and television are highly collaborative sectors of creative production. They rely not only on the talent and skills of individuals, but on the particular forms of collaborative creativity that emerge from individuals working together.
DEMOSERIES invites proposals for the International Symposium “What is a good series?” that will take place November 21 and 22, 2022 at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Submissions for a special issue of IJFMA Vol. 8 No. 2 (2023) are now open “Precarity and the Moving Image” Audiovisual Arts (both in their intra-cinematic elements and through its extra-cinematic contexts) have always been a vehicle to display and discuss precarity, as well as affected by it in their modes of production. The notion of Precarity, however, in itself, is also a very open and problematic concept.
Conference Convenors: Carmen Gregori-Signes, Claudia Alonso-Recarte, Miguel Fuster-Márquez, Sergio Maruenda-Bataller Secretary: Joaquín Primo-Pacheco We are delighted to announce that the Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya at the Universitat de València and the Institut Interuniversitari de Llengües Modernes Aplicades de la Comunitat Valenciana (IULMA) will be hosting, on the 19th-21st of October 2022 in Valencia, Spain, the
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.
Edited by: James Rendell and Kate Egan Submission deadline: 31 st July 2022. If ‘[w]e… want to think about horror as an umbrella term encompassing several different sub-categories’ (Cherry 2009: 3), frequently clustered as ‘cycles’ located on particular media at specific times and places (Mittell 2004: 8; Hutchings 2004: 15-16), then horror fans are even more nebula.