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Author Melissa Beattie

I have something of an ambivalent relationship with travel documentaries.  While I often enjoy them, as someone who partially specialises in media representation and has lived, worked and travelled outside my country of origin for the majority of my adult life, I frequently find myself critiquing the various portrayals.

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Author Toby Steiner, Sarah Lahm, and Kim Akass

First of all, a happy New Year – we at CSTonline hope you have all had a good winter break. And while we certainly agree with more pessimistic assessments that see 2025 as not looking to be off to a promising start – with everything happening in the world right now – we are of the conviction that we can’t just throw our hands in the air and give in to resignation.

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Author Ellie McFarlane

In the 1960s and 70s, US TV networks were broadcasting a plethora of situation comedies, many of which featured families in a variety of shapes and sizes [1]. Child actors were integral to these programs, and part of their job was to perform the genre’s comedic conventions, make the audience laugh, and help sitcoms appeal to a family audience.

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Author Melissa Beattie

Science fiction and comedy are often used for social commentary and animated sf/fantasy sitcom Futurama (Fox 1999-2003, Comedy Central 2008-2013, Netflix 2023-) is no exception.  For those unfamiliar with the series, it is an animated workplace sitcom with science fiction elements (cf Geraghty, 2009).

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Please see below our new call for a special dossier on Television, to be published in the second half of 2025 in Significação: Journal of Audiovisual Culture. https://revistas.usp.br/significacao/announcement/view/1841 Significação: Revista de Cultura Audiovisual invites submissions for a special dossier dedicated to the multifaceted and ever-evolving medium of television, which will celebrate its

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Author Kim Akass, with comments

I have been sitting here staring at a blank screen for nearly an hour.  That isn’t counting the 2 months that I have been postponing the writing of this blog.  If I don’t write it, it can’t be true.  And yet our lovely Philippa (‘Our Pip’, as me and Janet always called her) died peacefully at home on 15 October 2024. Somehow a light went out in the world.

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Editors: Ellie Tomsett and Hazel Collie Family dynamics have long been an area of comic consideration (Mills 2009, Pugh 2018, White 2018). From the evocation of the mother-in-law on the live Working Men’s Club circuit (Double 2014), to the depiction of the nuclear family unit in traditional sitcoms from the 1950s onwards (Jones 1992), the interpersonal tensions of how we get along with our nearest and dearest have become a

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Editor: Sabrina Mittermeier View the full call here>> https://intellectbooks.com/tv-matters TV Matters is a new series of short monographs (40,000 to 50,000 words) on television series, analysing their production history, cultural context, main themes, as well as fandom and audience reception.

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8-10 July 2025 Edge Hill University, St James Campus, Manchester Oxford Road and online It has been 20 years since the conference that inaugurated Critical Studies in Television . Then, we invited scholars to reflect on the state of play regarding the field, allowing us to consider the multiple disciplinary influences, the breadth of its methodological approaches and future directions.