MR WHEELER: Were you expecting a load of timber, Mr Chaplin? TREVOR CHAPLIN: You know me Mr Wheeler, I never expect anything. So when something turns up, that’s a bonus. The Beiderbecke Connection: Hello Sir, Hello Miss by Alan Plater   Summer semester. Disappointed academics. Many of whom prepared seminars that attracted audiences of none-ish.

What a couple of days it’s been for a certain type of television-obsessed millennial. Firstly, everyone’s favourite so-bad-it’s-good school drama Waterloo Road is returning, after seven years away, two definitely-demolished locations and a fanbase that definitely aren’t still teenagers. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

Young audiences have been a buzzword for a while across the entire audiovisual industry. In these digital times – saturated with overproduction of youth content that has never been distributed more easily – the competition for young audiences became a rat race.

The Black Lives Matter movement, the trial and conviction of Derek Chauvin, calls to defund the police, the prominence in the media of killer police such as Joseph James DeAngelo are recent manifestations of intense and even unprecedented levels of media attention on policing at interlocking points of race, inequality, social justice and political agendas.

Wastelands: 34TH EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES CONFERENCE Madrid 6-8 April 2022 The year 2022 marks the centenary of the publication of T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land . The title of the conference alludes to Eliot’s work and the main themes in it, expanding the idea of the wasteland to the study of the United States.

I have finally watched Hannibal (NBC, 2013-2015). I binged it in less than a week. If you think that is a good sign, think again. I just wanted to get past it. There was no savouring going on or getting addicted. No. On the contrary: I wanted to finish it as quickly as possible. I thought the programme was utterly – and excuse my lack of a better technical term – naff.

“I thought there were fifty-one episodes of Maigret plus the pilot with someone other than Rupert Davies.

“[W]hen women in the movement use herstory , their purpose is to emphasize that women’s lives, deeds, and participation in human affairs have been neglected or undervalued in standard histories,” wrote the feminist activist Casey Miller and activist/linguist Kate Swift in their publication Words and Women (1976: 135). 40 years later, the goals for equality that second wave feminists like Miller and Swift fought for are far from

Oh, football. It does rather take over, doesn’t it? As one who has oft written of his dependence on the broadcast schedule, I struggle to comprehend why the commencement of another international sporting competition means I can’t watch Have I Got News for You of a Friday evening.

PART IV S4C was launched on November 1, 1982 – the night before Channel 4’s launch – and Euryn Ogwen, as head of programmes was responsible for constructing the new channel’s first hour. I was ten years old, and watching the first hour in the office of my father’s television company, Screen ’82, in Aberystwyth.

We invite chapter proposals (300-500 words) for a volume of essays under contract with Lexington Books. This edited collection will examine how animal characters in film and television serve as protagonists, antagonists, or anti-heroes fulfilling various narrative functions.