When Toby Miller sent his new blog over for this week’s CSTonline, I was instantly struck by the uncanny similarities between our lives over the past few months. I too have been moving, not a lot, just 3,500 miles away from my native hometown of London to my not-so-native new hometown of South New Jersey. I too was overwhelmed by loss – not the loss of television – but the loss of familiar television, that ‘blob out in front

Well, not exactly a virgin.

This article first appeared in The Conversation, 16 October 2019   The new Sky Crime TV channel is entirely devoted to true crime documentaries.

If you live in any country other than Turkey, Hungary, India, Brazil, the USA or the UK (and a number of others more) you might be excused for thinking that life is … kind of as it has always been.

Originally published on The Conversation on October 8, 2019.   It’s 1963. Frances “Baby” Houseman (Jennifer Grey) is a college-bound teenager staying at Kellerman’s Mountain Lodge with her family. Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) is a dance instructor at the resort – and Baby’s love interest.

Media practice remains under-theorised. What actually happens when media artefacts are made is the last great mystery in our subject area. Practice is now a major part of many degrees, but those who teach it tend to have an inferiority complex in relation to their Theory Colleagues.

Despite the confidence of its title, History’s recent miniseries The Food That Built America (2019) seems to invite questions about its own premise. What, we might ask, does it mean to say that a particular food has built America? Do we mean “built” economically? Culturally? Politically? All of the above? Whose America are we even talking about?

Note: contains spoilers for series one and two.

There’s nothing as loyal as a prisoner fan (Val Lehman, 2019) On June 25 a capacity crowd met at the St Kilda Town Hall in Melbourne – the city that is the home of iconic Australian television series Prisoner (1979-1986) – to celebrate 40 years since the show made its debut on Australia’s Network 10. Prisoner’ s extraordinary 692-episode run is made more remarkable by the fact that it was commissioned as a 16-part

Back in January 2012, when I was nudging towards the end of my PhD, two old friends and I embarked on a road trip to Wigan to celebrate another chum’s fortieth birthday.