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.
It was only last week that I heard of the recent passing of Tony Garnett, who will need no introduction for anyone on nodding terms with British television history. Back in October 2010 I was fortunate enough to interview Tony at his home in London while conducting research for my PhD. I was investigating changes in UK television performance style, and he had worked for some time as an actor before becoming a script editor and producer.
“A room without books is like a body without a soul,” remarked the first century AD Roman philosopher Cicero. Well, apparently anyway. He was anti-embezzlement – a good thing – and I’m sure he loved his books too.
ESA RN-18 mid-term conference, Turin, Italy, 10-12/9/2020 We live in times of deepening economic, political, social, ideological and ecological crises that are expressed in widespread precarious labour, the commodification of (almost) everything, the rise of new nationalism, populism and authoritarian forms of capitalism, and ecological destruction.
Editors: Karrȧ Shimabukuro and Wickham Clayton On first consideration it may not seem like “nostalgia” and horror and slasher films have any clear connections. Usually nostalgia is applied to events and experiences that have a pleasant connotation, even if these pleasant feelings are a result of a rose-tinted view of the past.
Cultures of Authenticity: A two-day interdisciplinary symposium hosted by the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture (CRCC), Loughborough University, 6 th -7 th May 2020
Edited by Professor Richard J. Hand (University of East Anglia) & Professor Mark O’Thomas (University of Greenwich) We are seeking chapters that engage with the television series American Horror Story created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk.
Broadcasting, Reloaded. Resurgences, Resistances and Rearrangements of Mainstream Television and Media in the Digital Arena Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti – DAMSLab, May 18th-19th, 2020 Organized by Luca Barra, Paola Brembilla and Veronica Innocenti (Università di Bologna) In collaboration with the ECREA Television Studies section Media Mutations, the international conference on audiovisual media hosted by
Premiering in May 2015, Sam Esmail’s Mr. Robot (USA Network), tells the story of a cybersecurity engineer/computer hacker, who is recruited by a cyber-anarchist movement called ‘fsociety’. The movement’s mission: to eradicate all consumer debt through destroying the data records held by the fictional conglomerate, ‘E Corp’. Over the course of the series, we follow the show’s protagonist, Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek), who, as we learn,
The current outbreak of Coronavirus is certainly scary, and very serious for those affected by it. But thank goodness it is not, so far, anything like as apocalyptic as the global pandemic that formed the premise for Survivors (BBC 1975-7). In it, the Welsh science fiction screenwriter Terry Nation imagined an accidental spillage of a new strain of a flu-like virus in a Chinese laboratory.
Gosh – aren’t there a lot of books about Doctor Who (1963-1989, 1996, 2005-)? Admittedly, that’s a thought which I had recently when standing looking at a wall in Galaxy 4, a shop in Sheffield that for 26 years has been specialising in the sale of Doctor Who -related merchandise to the world in general and my wife and myself in particular, but, nevertheless, you suddenly realise how the sheer volume of volumes – even for a