On January 13th 2017, the Greek Council of State published its decision which found that the law on which the Greek government auction for the television licenses was based contravenes Greece’s Constitution. According to the decision, the law, brought by former State Minister Nikos Pappas, was against Article 15 of the Constitution.

The perfect set for every home I love going to archives. From my first visits, I knew that this was going to be the most exciting part of my research. As a researcher of television history, I initially expected to spend my time just at the BFI and the BBC Written Archive, but as my research veered towards the material history of the television set I had to be a little more creative.

How do we write using the audiovisual? Many of us are facing this challenge, frustrated by the restrictions of prose-only analyses. One answer is the audiovisual essay, in its poetic and analytic variants. These have recently taken off in the UK, especially in film studies, as a result of the significant loosening of copyright law, which now explicitly allows quotation of audiovisual works for the purposes of critical comment and review.

Kim Akass, University of Hertfordshire, UK Stephen Lacey David Lavery Janet McCabe, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Robin Nelson Rhonda V. Wilcox, Gordon College, USA

Prof. Gary R. Edgerton Butler University, Indiana USA Prof. Michele Hilmes University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Prof. Toby Miller Prof.

Alexander Dhoest, Universiteit Antwerpen Irena Reifova, Univerzita Karlova v Praze David Fernandez-Quijada, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Milly Buonanno, La Sapienza University of Rome Jeanette Steemers, University of Westminster Lothar Mikos, Hochschule fuer Film und Fernsehen Konrad Wolf, Potsdam Manuel Jose Damasio, Universidade Lusofona, Lisbon

Stacey Abbott, University of Roehampton Jonathan Bignell, University of Reading Michele Byers, Saint Mary’s John Corner, Liverpool University Glen Creeber, Aberystwyth University Lynne Edwards, Ursinus College John Ellis, Royal Holloway, University of London Jane Feuer, University of Pittsburgh Christine Geraghty, University of Glasgow Julia Hallam, University of Liverpool Dana Heller, Old Dominion University Matt Hills, Aberystwyth

Kim Akass, Managing Editor CSTonline Christine Geraghty, Book Review Editor-in-Chief Simone Knox, ECREA Editor Stephen Lacey, ManagingEditor Janet McCabe, Managing Editor Elke Weissmann, ECREA Editor

Booking is now open for the season of ‘Forgotten TV Dramas’ at BFI Southbank, London in February 2017.

Theorising the Popular Conference 2017 Liverpool Hope University, June 21 ^st -22 ^nd 2017 The Popular Culture Research Group at Liverpool Hope University is delighted to announce its seventh annual international conference, ‘Theorising the Popular’. Building on the success of previous years, the 2017 conference aims to highlight the intellectual originality, depth and breadth of ‘popular’ disciplines, as well

Booking now open (£10/£5 students): http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/bw This workshop will bring together scholars interested in how war has been broadcast to the public in the 20th and 21st centuries. From the early use of radio, through to newsreel, television, 24-hour news, and now social media, the ways in which war has been broadcast has constantly evolved.