Since CSTonline was last published at the end of June we have seen some seismic political shifts – the UK has voted to leave Europe in a total Brexit shocker, we have another female Prime Minister (let’s hope that’s all she has in common with the other one) and the US has just voted in a reality-TV star for President. Who would have thought that such huge changes would happen in a quarter of a year?

Why has the television business made it so hard for its users to find something they want to watch? It used to be so easy. You turned on the TV and instantly there was something, if you didn’t like that you could hop from one channel to another… or use the handy scheduling grid to find what was on when. There is no equivalent for the digital age.

Watching the seventeenth series of Big Brother UK, broadcast on Channel Five this summer, and perusing the headlines about the show which proliferate on news sites like Metro , the Mirror and Mail Online , one could be forgiven for forgetting that in 2010, Big Brother UK, the reality television phenomenon of the twenty-first century, was pronounced dead.

Ken Loach is surely the patron saint of British film and television studies – venerated for his early work with Tony Garnett and others for making British television drama a national event (fig 1); admired for the prizes (and finance) he has won in Europe; and respected for the way he continues to make films in his own way and following his own conscience into his eighties.

Conference at Aarhus University, Centre for Children’s Literature 30 May – 1 June 2017 Children and young people live in a mediatized world in which literature, other visual and verbal texts, media and platforms converge and coalesce. Established notions of producers and users, target groups, genres and literary forms and experiences are thereby challenged.

Cities in Crisis: Cinema, Media and Urban Space Event to be held at the following time, date and location: Saturday, 19 November 2016 from 09:30 to 19:00 (GMT) King’s College London Department of Geography Room K4U.12 4th Floor, King’s Building WC2R 2LS London United Kingdom View Map Attend Event Share this event: Researchers from the Department of Film Studies at King’s College London

23-24 November 2016 University of Copenhagen, Keynote Speakers Roberto Olla, Executive Director, Eurimages Ib Bondebjerg, Professor Emeritus, University of Copenhagen The European Co-production Symposium will explore co-production as the expression of a complex political and economic apparatus, and aims to bring to light the intricacies of producing a film across national borders with different

Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies Innovations and Tensions Italian Cinema and Media in a Global World The American University of Rome 9-10 June 2017 Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, published by Intellect Ltd. since 2012, is a peer-reviewed triannual journal. JICMS is the leading English-language forum for theoretical, methodological and critical debate on Italian film and media production, reception and consumption.

Bridging Gaps : Where is the film scholar in Hollywood filmmaking? Performance Café, University of Southern California Los Angeles, USA  March 18-19, 2017 There have been significant debates on gaps between filmmakers and film scholars.

Female Expertise in the Birthing Show: A Transnational Study Dr. Sofia Bull, University of Southampton 18th January 2017, 12:00-13:00, [Room TBC] All welcome. To register email Sara De Benedictis: sara.debenedictis@nottingham.ac.uk This seminar series is supported by the Wellcome Trust. Co-hosted by the Maternal Health and Wellbeing Research Group and Health Humanities.

Changing the Narrative around Birth: Midwives Views of Working with the Media Prof. Vanora Hundley, University of Bournemouth 14th December 2016, 12:00-13:00, [Room TBC] This seminar series is supported by the Wellcome Trust. Co-hosted by the Maternal Health and Wellbeing Research Group and Health Humanities. Twitter: @TelevisingBirth All welcome.