Author’s note: Today’s Secret Word is […]. Whenever you see the word […] below, in honor of Paul Reubens, scream real loud. I was at WMNJ, Drew University’s student radio station, helping a student prep some new field recorders when the news of Paul Reubens’ death was announced.
Creating the video essay on The Good Life for the TV Dictionary – the entry was “see under lifestyle(s)” – was enjoyable. The hardest part was figuring out how to condense so much visually-arresting and often humorous material into a short space of time. Well, that and the way in which the nostalgic pleasures of rewatching this iconic show from the 1970s were often tempered by the realization of the nature of some of the content.
Next week The Children’s Media Conference gathers people working with developing, producing and distributing content to children for a three-day programme in Sheffield. The conference is in its 20th edition in 2023, and the varied programme illustrates how all platforms are now in play when thinking about children’s media.
A comedy-drama about vampires and a high drama/satire of corporate culture would, on the face of it, seem unlikely bedfellows.
With the vast array of options of what to watch online, have you ever wondered why you picked that new comedy or that old documentary? Would you have chosen to watch them if they were on terrestrial TV? How much were you nudged to choose them by subtle prompts from the online streaming platforms?
A murder has, yet again, been committed in a small town in Maine. The local sheriff is baffled. Fortunately, however, the town’s most famous resident, retired English teacher turned mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), is on the case!
Two very different brothers from Edinburgh (okay, Leith) are driving one night and accidentally hit a pedestrian. What follows in the BBC Scotland series Guilt (2019-2023) is, unsurprisingly, more about the emotion than the legal definition of guilt as we see the crimes being committed and know that the brothers are guilty of it and the subsequent cover-up.
Reviewing methods used by earlier generations to challenge discriminatory acts in television hiring practices provides proof of the long-standing battle between those who worked to challenge barriers to entry for Black people and the already established media companies that are more concerned about profit margins.
Sometimes, coincidence allows us to observe separate but related phenomena that, seen by themselves, would be nowhere near as meaningful as when compared to each other. Such a wonderful coincidence happened recently in the relatively quick succession of two major television events: the Coronation of King Charles on the 6th and Eurovision, 7 days later, on the 13th May 2023.
by Gary R. Edgerton This strike is a strike for everyone in the industry. —Fran Drescher, SAG-AFTRA president, 8 May 2023 (Jackson) 2023 is shaping up to be one of the more turbulent years in Hollywood’s storied history.
