The term “biopic” is rarely used about television programmes, but biographical drama occurs across many kinds of TV output, such as dramatized documentary, one-off TV movies and historical drama. Biopics are fictionalized narratives of (most of) the life of an individual, told primarily in chronological order, about a significant person who made a contribution to present culture or who lived recently enough to be familiar to the audience.

The past 20 years have seen the rise of the once-humble television series to new heights of popular success and critical estimation. Given this rise, this book asks if and how contemporary scripted television and web series can be read as a form of literature.

One-Day Symposium: Tuesday July 16th 2019 The Centre for Media Research, Bath Spa University Newton Park, Newton St Loe, Bath, BA2 9BN Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professor Simon O’Sullivan , Professor of art, theory and practice, Goldsmiths College, London Dr Tony David-Sampson , Reader in Digital Media Culture and Communication, University of East London The Centre

The bestselling novelist of all time, Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is increasingly being recognised in scholarship and popular culture as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. In response to what Martin Edwards calls the ‘lazy critical cliché’ of branding Golden Age Detective Fiction as ‘cosy’, this conference will investigate the significance of the Queen of Crime and her writings within academia and popular culture.

The Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway is pleased to host the 15 ^th Annual Irish Screen Studies Seminar, to be held on 9-10 May 2019.

Production studies has emerged as a vibrant field in contemporary media studies. The work of John Caldwell, Michael Curtin, Toby Miller and Mette Hjort has contributed to developing conceptual and theoretical approaches to the field, working simultaneously on both global and local levels of policy and production management.

Running from 4 – 25 February at BFI Southbank, FORGOTTEN BLACK DRAMA ON TV will be a season of ground- breaking black British television dramas.

“Son of Man /You cannot say, or guess, for you know only/A heap of broken images” T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland Matt Weiner’s The Romanoffs offers American television a unique modernist vision of history as a collision of histories, not the more familiar media monolithic account of one linear progression, or even the rarer media version of cyclical history.

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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch arrived just after Christmas (December 28 ^th 2018), billed as a “Netflix event”. A choose-your-own-adventure about the troubled creation of a fictional 1980s videogame ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’, and (at least in one branch of its narrative) a Netflix release about Netflix as a brand, it has already been reviewed in the UK press as an example of “the TV of tomorrow”, as well as spawning pop-up promo

I’ve never held an honest job in my entire life.  I’ve never done any hard labor.  I’ve never worked 9 to 5.  I’ve never worked five days a week until right now.  I don’t like it. (laughter) I’ve never seen the inside of a factory but it’s all I’ve ever written about.  Standing before you is a man who has become wildly and absurdly successful writing about something he has had absolutely no personal experience.