Australians are facing a federal election soon. But first, some translations for international readers. ‘Daggy’ and ‘Pollies’ are Australianisms. “Pollie” is short for ‘Politician’. “Daggy” means uncool or unfashionable. Also short for ‘Politician’. Elections are equal parts fruitful and terrible for the television. They are fruitful because of the advertising – gloriously bad, but gloriously huge ad-spend.

Contemporary film and TV in the UK appear to offer at least three interrelated problems for the lower socio-economic classes. There is imbalance, exploitation, and precarity in the industry; perennial problems around representation; and the inculcation of neoliberal ideology antithetical to social justice and equality.

We are seeking proposals for an edited collection tentatively titled Television Comedy & Cultural Crisis. Chapters should focus on a specific television series and address how that series engages with the discourse of a particular cultural crisis through comedy.

Call for articles – ViewFinder Issue 120: Arena LearningOnScreen’s ViewFinder Issue 120 is now open for submission from academics, researchers, doctoral students and video essayists. In this issue we will be exploring the landmark BBC arts and culture series Arena.

When creator Adam Price created the political drama series Borgen for Danish television, premiering in 2010, no one thought that international audiences would take an interest in the political life and debates of a small Scandinavian country. As we now know, this turned out not to be the case.

This blog is an expansion on an earlier one published on In Media Res in November 2021 SPOILER ALERT

In July 1972 *Ms. *magazine released its first independently-published issue, featuring the now famous “Wonder Woman for President” cover. Although first appearing in comics in 1941, Wonder Woman’s focus on compassion and empathy spoke to the publishers and readers of this feminist magazine fighting for women’s rights in the 1970s, and she continues speaking to modern readers today.

Networking Knowledge , the journal of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies (MeCCSA) Postgraduate Network, invites contributions from postgraduate students and early career researchers for publication in future issues. Academic articles, creative work, interviews and media reviews from any field of media, communication, and cultural studies are welcome.

It’s the year 2021 and the UK finally seems to recognise the urgency of climate action. It seems to be everywhere: local councils declare climate emergencies and commit to net zero emission by 2030, the British government gives out funding to councils to improve walking and cycling infrastructures in order to change the way we – the average citizens – travel from A to B, and people start talking about electric vehicles and heat pumps.

I wonder how many fellow television researchers have had something published and, only when seeing it locked into the pages of a journal or a book, have realised that their thinking has already developed. Indeed, whilst television and the scholarly endeavours surrounding it are ‘to be continued…’ in perpetuity (at least, I hope so), the dominant publishing mechanisms currently at our disposal to facilitate such endeavours remain less dynamic.

**Special Issue of Journal of Popular Television ** It’s a Sin belongs to the HIV/AIDS retrovision genre (Kagan, 2018), dramatising the early years of the pandemic. Audiences are shown what reality was like before and immediately after the outbreak of HIV/AIDS.