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The 31st International Screen Studies Conference, organised by the journal Screen , will be programmed by Screen Editors Professor Karen Lury and Professor Alastair Phillips.

Online (Teams) Television has been widely theorised in relation to the everyday, the habitual and the repetitive. But there are a lot of phenomena that are surprising, and that require TV scholars to provide nuance to these observations. Take Squid Game (Netflix, 2021) which was supposedly the streaming hit of the year 2021 in the UK and elsewhere. But as an example of a Korean TV drama, it is highly unusual.

*The twentieth century began with utopia and ended with nostalgia. * —Author, cultural theorist, and artist, Svetlana Boym (2007: 7)   It’s impossible to overstate how original the Beatles looked and sounded when they seemingly arrived out of nowhere during the early Sixties.

About two years ago on this very blog, I ruminated on the disproportionate distribution of books and television series, and while attempting to celebrate some of the very tomes that had been issued over the year, I also grumbled about many other important series that had been overlooked. ‘[W]hy can’t I get a decent book about Moonlighting (1985-1989)?’ I moaned about a third of the way down the text.

The research project ’Reaching Young Audiences: Serial Fiction and Cross-Media Storyworlds for Children and Young Audiences’ (RYA) seeks to provide detailed knowledge about the production and reception of film, TV and online fiction for children, tweens and teens through in-depth analysis of the current strategies for creating engaging fiction for young audiences and extensive qualitative case studies of their media use.

For our next issue, The New Americanist is seeking submissions which consider the cultural and political conditions through which comics play a part in contemporary American life.

Last time, I apologized to you for taking up your valuable minutes when you were probably all busy deciding which archival editions of the Radio Times or TV Times or TV Guide or other-listing-magazines-are-available to scatter around your home this Christmas.

Children’s content is often linked to ideas of certain learning outcomes. This is obvious in much factional content for children marked by ‘edutainment’ agendas, but also in the realm of fiction, particularly fiction targeting the youngest viewers.

**Diaspora Screen Media Network virtual conference 17/18 March 2022 (Birmingham City University, UK) ** Theme: Diaspora Cinema and Media: Globalising the Local This AHRC-funded virtual conference is the culmination of the Diaspora Screen Media Network’s series of successful events.

Keynote speakers: Georges Didi-Huberman (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris) Sybille Krämer (Freie Universität, Berlin) Lev Manovich (City University, New York) Artists talk: Radu Jude & Susana de Sousa Dias Graduate Workshop keynote speakers: Samaneh Moafi & Stefanos Levidis (Forensic Architecture)