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 &

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.

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.

Association of Adaptation Studies Conference 7-9 June 2023, School of EDACS, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom In the last few years, there has been a number of discussions around authenticity in our cultural narratives: who can play what role? Who can write a particular story? These have come from both audiences and the larger film and literature industry, underpinned by the idea of authenticity.

FUTURE [of] ARCHIVES Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada 20-22 June 2023 (in-person) **Deadline for submissions (20-minute presentations, panels of three 20-minute papers, or practice-based research/workshops): 16 January 2023.

**Doing Women’s Film and Television History VI: Changing Streams and Channels ** 14 – 16 June 2023 University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Doing Women’s Film and Television History is back in 2023! Join us at the University of Sussex for the 6th edition of this leading international conference on women’s film and television history.