I was saddened to hear across the festive period of the death of the writer Philip Martin following a long battle with Leukemia. He was a writer whose television work – particularly his striking series Gangsters (1976-1978) – I enjoyed watching immensely and whom I was delighted to discover in correspondence and on the occasions that we met was as kind and helpful a gentleman as I could wish to encounter.

International Online Conference 25-26 March 2021 media.ameryka@gmail.com || @MediaConferen11 || #usmediaconference “The American media plays a bizarrely outsize role in American elections, occupying the place of most countries’ national election commissions. Here, the media actually assembles the results from 50 states, tabulates them and declares a victor.

Editors: J. Jesse Ramirez (University of St. Gallen) and Anna Marta Marini (Instituto Franklin–UAH)   We invite chapter proposals from scholars based in Europe whose work delves into the issues, configurations, and manifestations of the representation of Latinxs and the Latinx experience in popular culture and new media.

Scholars researching (self-identifying) women and ageing in the screen industries are invited to send chapter abstracts for an edited collection provisionally entitled Falling off a Cliff? Women, Ageing and the Screen Industries . The book will explore the gendered challenges facing women over 50 yrs. as they attempt to carve out and/or maintain a career in the screen industries, in front of and behind the camera.

Ext. Day Long shot of snow covered small town. As the camera gets closer to the town lights on trees become visible. It begins to snow. Dissolve to Interior day. Mid shot of a woman sat at a computer typing.

Counting down In October or November, every TV and radio channel in Denmark announces its special version of the yearly Christmas calendar. Looking back on highlights from previous years, social media, magazines and newspapers cover the event, bringing clips, quotations, pictures and evaluations.

Dear Santa, That’s 2020 almost over and done with. Again, I’ve tried very hard to be good. When Boris has told me not to go out, I’ve not gone out. And I’ve done my best to see if I can help people who are struggling. So – and you’re probably expecting this already – would it be possible to get La La Land Records’ four-disc set of the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964-1968) soundtrack please?

I decided to write this because I felt an almost divine force compelling me to have everybody in TV studies aware of what is happening in a certain corner of the internet. Where to begin. I’ll start with the show itself.

So, about a year ago, I was watching that Breaking Bad film on Netflix and Watchmen on HBO, and I was still thinking about the Deadwood movie from the previous spring.

“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. It is a joint project by Universitat Politècnica de València (Escola Politècnica Superior de Gandia/DCADHA) and Università di Bologna.

The western was once seen as a key genre for understanding both Hollywood and the culture of the United States more broadly, but studies of the genre are few and far between today (Corkin, 2004; Nelson, 2015;