August 17th 2023 and the Guardian ran an article entitled ‘How did Suits become America’s most-watched TV show of the summer?’  Good question.

Among the notable TV finales from this year, the curtain dropped on Barry , the dark dramedy that, for four seasons, absurdly examined the criminal world of hitman Barry Berkman and his bizarre attempt to give up murder for acting.

As part of my current master degree programme in media studies at the Film University Babelsberg, Germany, I had the opportunity to learn about research in television and the television industry at the conference Redefining Televisuality: Programmes, Practices, Methods . I was particularly interested in the panel on Netflix global strategies.

As Dhoest and Mertens (2013) note, when glocalising a text, dialect and accent are key elements of that form of adaptation. Though they were referring to the Flemish version of Ugly Betty, the glocalised telenovela par excellence, accent can be used and/or recognised even outside of glocalised adaptations.

Around about mid-October, I could hear – courtesy of the world wide web – a distant wailing and gnashing of teeth but not of biblical proportions. More the odd e-mail.

A conference I could attend that I didn’t have to work at and was indeed about my topic of interest? Wow! From 25 ^th ­– 27 ^th October 2023 the biennial ECREA Television Section Conference, Redefining Televisuality: Programmes, Practices, Methods was held at the Film University Babelsberg in Potsdam, Germany, relating to John T. Calldwells (1995) concept of televisuality.

As a participant of the conference Redefining Televisuality: Programmes, Practices, Methods at the Film University Babelsberg I attended the panel on ‘Television Ontology’. All the seats in the room were taken. Every presenter only had 15 minutes, so at the end it felt like we had all completed a marathon sprinting. But let me present to you the information that I found most interesting along the way.

Chapter proposals for edited collection #TrueCrime: Digital Culture, Ethics and True Crime Audiences Proposals due by Thursday 1st February 2024. The hashtag #truecrime currently has 50.7 billion views on TikTok and 1.3 million posts on Instagram. Reddit’s ‘True Crime Forum’ boasts over 2.6 million ‘detectives’, and the most-watched true crime videos on YouTube achieve in the region of 30 million views.

This two-day conference aims to re-evaluate the gothic proliferation, duplication, and industrial (over-)reliance on sequelisation that emerged from the 1980s studio system. This conference seeks to open and build upon significant discussions on sequels stemming from existing scholarship (Klein and Palmer, eds.

Terminator @40: Origins and Legacies  An academic conference hosted by The Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies, Bangor University, Wales  18 & 19 June 2024  The Terminator franchise has left an indelible mark on popular culture.

The Disney, Culture and Society Research Network is pleased to announce its Call for Papers for the Second Annual Disney, Culture & Society Research Network Conference: Disney in a Time of Global Transformation.