The sudden loss of Tim Beddows, Managing Director and founder of Network Distributing Limited at the age of only 59 is a terrible, sobering shock that I’m still attempting to process even after a week or more.

Donald Trump’s recent announcement of his intention to seek the Republican nomination for the US presidency in 2024 was a far cry from the spectacle of his first run.

web: https://www.mediamutations.org/callforpapers contact email: submissions@mediamutations.org Call for papers – Media Mutations 14 – Investigating Medical Drama TV series: approaches and perspectives Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti – DAMSLab, May 18th-19th, 2023 Organized by Stefania Antonioni (Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo) and Marta Rocchi (Università di Bologna). In collaboration with the research

Is there any term in TV Studies more scrutinised, debated, loved and hated than ‘quality TV?’  Probably, but that’s beside the point.** ** One of the many ways in which quality TV acquires cultural capital is by appropriating it from forms that have gone before, which is what I’ll discuss today.

The newest adaption of Anne Rice’s novels, Interview with the Vampire (2022), finished airing its season finale in the US on November 13 ^th . It was the most glorious hour of television I’ve experienced in a long time. With stellar sets, costumes, writing, performances, musical score, and everything in between, I’m on the edge of my seat waiting for the next season. Thankfully, AMC confirmed it is airing next year.

organized in partnership with FilmForum 2023 – XXX International Film and Media Studies Conference The 29th edition of Visible Evidence (web: https://www.visibleevidence.org/ ), the annual international conference on documentary film and media, is organized in partnership with FilmForum 2023, the 30th edition of Udine’s International Film and Media Studies Conference and the 20th of the MAGIS International Film and Media Studies Spring

The zombie as an allegory for cultural, social, and scientific analysis spans almost every discipline including humanities, biology, mathematics, anthropology, economics, and political science. This range of use for the zombie narrative is a clear indication of its adaptability and viability as a distinct framework for critical theory.

This event will take place face-to-face Keynote presentations from Dr Beth Johnson (Leeds) | Dr Laura Mayne (Hull) | Prof Sarah Street (Bristol) **Proposal deadline: **Friday 24 February 2023 **Send proposals to: **britishfilmandtvnorthumbria@gmail.com **Send queries to: **Dr Johnny Walker (johnny.walker@northumbria.ac.uk) Northumbria University’s

**Call for Conference Papers: The Off-Screen, Film and Media Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta ** February 23-24, 2023 | In-person/Virtual Hosted by the GSU FMT Graduate Theory Study Group Submission Deadline: December 20, 2022 **Keynote Speakers (Appearing in person): ** Sulgi Lie (Visiting Professor of Art Theory and Aesthetics, Berlin University of the Arts) Daniel Morgan (Chair &

Fig. 1: This is our BBC. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bln3nw This week is the 100th anniversary of the BBC, and the schedules offer various programmes that celebrate it, picking moments, objects and people from across the institution’s history. Rather than giving another selection of important bits of the BBC’s story, I decided this blog should be about some of my own relationships with BBC programmes and people.

I am writing this towards the end of Week 7, which means that by the time it’s online most of us will be around two-thirds of the way through our first term/semester/trimester/block, and entering the home stretch before that much-needed Yule break. I don’t know about you, but I am really rather relishing the return to face-to-face teaching.