ITV’s Love Island , where gorgeous singletons compete to find love, was the surprise reality hit of the last decade. Format sales tipped £1billion for ITV as the show was replicated all over the globe. It won the BAFTA for best reality show in 2018 and had done the unthinkable attracted back to appointment-to-view television the elusive 16-34 demographic.

It was noted in the previous post, that the underlying plotline structuring Sam Esmail’s Mr. Robot bears a notable resemblance to David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999). Certainly, the comparison has been duly noted and even openly acknowledged by Esmail, with the film serving as inspiration for the series (Sullivan, 2015). In the case of seasons 1 and 2, this inspiration fuels Elliot and fsociety’s attempts to erase the commercial

“It’s all about paying homage,” remarks Oliver at the end of my favourite novel, Oliver’s Travels (1994), “Hearing what the ghosts are saying.” This blissful romantic thriller about national corruption pays homage to many people – from Jimmy James to Ludwig van Beethoven, from Lester Young to the stone masons who build Durham Cathedral, from George Farquhar to Magnus the Martyr.

Last week I provided the first half of an interview I conducted with the late Tony Garnett back in 2010 as part of the research for my PhD thesis. Here is the second and final instalment, in which he discusses soap, the virtues of working with non-actors, and Ricky Gervais… RH: You know Jonathan Bignell at Reading University? TG: Yes, I know Jonathan.

Genre/Nostalgia: A one-day film and television studies symposium, University of Hertfordshire, June 30th 2020 Keynote speaker: Dr Kate Egan, Northumbria University: ‘Nostalgia for British Comedy’s Past: Monty Python, the 1960s and 1970s, and Fan Memories’ Film and TV genres and nostalgia have long been intertwined.

We are happy to invite you to participate in the ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2020 that will take place at the University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, from 12-21 July, 2020 (full-day program from 13 to 20 July;

Submission Deadline: February 29, 11: 59 p.m. (Pacific Time) Host: Communication Association of Eurasian Researchers (CAER) The Communication Association of Eurasian Researchers (CAER) welcomes submissions that focus on various aspects of communication in, with and about Eastern and Central Europe.

The MOSF Journal of Science Fiction is accepting submissions for a special issue on environmental studies and science fiction to be released in the summer of 2020. Political and intellectual discourse over the last two decades is replete with the ominous potential of climate change.

Centre for Postdigital Cultures annual conference, 4 – 5 June 2020 @ Coventry University, UK CONFIRMED SPEAKERS: Kreider + O’Leary Daphne Dragona  Daniel Rourke ‘Infrastructure’ has emerged in recent years as the new academic buzzword.

Visual Depictions of the American West How the West Was Drawn and What It Showed Us Nov 16, 2020, 12:00 PM CET – Nov 20, 2020, 12:00 PM CET University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Calle San Bernardo, 3199, 30123 Venice VE, Italy The American West has been depicted for decades through comic books and graphic novels, including by many authors living outside the U.S. Some of the most famous titles and artists are the Tex Willer series (Tex) by Giovanni

The Norwegian public service broadcaster NRK just premiered the longest slow TV broadcast ever with Svalbard Minute by Minute documenting a nine-day Arctic expedition. Next week the Swedish public service broadcaster SVT will try to convince children that slow TV is also for them with two weeks of live broadcasting from 6.30am to 8pm from a Swedish farm.