Central character Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) has left The Walking Dead , and no, he wasn’t killed by a horrific zombie maul, or in a protracted scene of human to human torment. Instead he left via a succession of in-episode accidents, before a last hurrah of heroism that will cement his position as leader-most-worthy, according to ‘his people’ anyway.

Back to the Future: Telling and Taming Anticipatory Media Visions and Technologies Special Issue of “Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies” Guest-editors: Christian Pentzold (University of Bremen, Germany), Anne Kaun (Södertörn University, Sweden), and Christine Lohmeier (University of Bremen, Germany) Digital media, networked services, and aggregate data are beacons

I thought this week would be a good week to finally talk about Charmed (The WB, 1998-2006, The CW, since 2018). It was Halloween, and part of my rituals of the day include watching the third season episode ‘All Halliwell’s Eve’ which imagines Halloween as ‘the witches’ holiday’, i.e. the day of the year when women’s power is celebrated.

Edited by Alyson R. Buckman, Juliette C. Kitchens, and Katherine A. Troyer Co-editors Alyson R. Buckman, Juliette C. Kitchens, and Katherine A. Troyer invite proposals or completed, previously unpublished essays for a scholarly anthology on the representation of trauma, memory, and disability in the works of Joss Whedon.

Anthology Gothic horror series American Horror Story (henceforth AHS) has, since its inception, appropriated and paid nostalgic homage to a number of horror texts drawn both from TV and cinema.

I recently retired after more than 30 years of teaching. Much of those thirty years were spent teaching about television, both making TV and theorising about it.  For the last decade I was very much a TV studies person.

The new series of Doctor Who is notable for its inclusivity.  Much attention has rightly focused on the long-overdue casting of a woman to play the Doctor and on Jodie Whittaker’s predictably superb performance.  Those of us who believed that a woman Doctor was desirable, not only for gender equality but also to refresh Doctor Who , seem to have been vindicated.

Issue 15 Call for Papers DEADLINE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 Special Issue: Twin Peaks: Season Three Guest Editors: Matt Miller and Matthew Lau This special issue of NANO will explore the significance of the recently released third season of the seminal television show, Twin Peaks.

Intersectionality as a concept was born at the end of the 1980s, and has proven influential ever since as a method for analysing film and media productions as well as in the fields of critical race and disability studies, feminist theory and transnational studies.

SERIES. International Journal of TV Serial Narratives“ (https://series.unibo.it) is an open access and peer-reviewed journal, with ISSN and indexed in major international databases. It publishes 2 issues per year, and is mainly devoted to television seriality.

Call for Papers:#Resist: Protest and Resistance Media in Brexit Britain and Trump-era USA (edited volume, Rowman and Littlefield) Editors: Dr Giuliana Monteverde and Dr Victoria McCollum (Ulster University) We invite abstracts for chapters that explore protest and resistance in relation to Brexit Britain and the Trump-era United States.